M'CARTHY V. JAMITO

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12606, 17 November 1926, Page 11

M'CARTHY V. JAMITO

- AUSTRALIAN WINS A MUCH IMPROVED BOXER BEST FIGHT FOR A LONG TIME After going the full fifteen rounds McCarthy, of Australia, gained : points decision over .T ami to, the Fili pino, at the Town Hall last night, aftei one of the best and hardest fights scoi in Wellington for many a long day. McCarthy earned his victory, for hi was a much irhproved boxer upon hi: first appearanoe. From start to finis! it was a thrilling battle with never : let. up, and Until the tenth round iwas very even. Then McCarthy cam< to light, and his boxing, with gooc straight blows, uppercuts, and clevei defence told. Jamito carried th< fighting to him most of the time, am earned hearty applause for the wav il • which he took liis medicine. Neither did McCarthy go unscathed, but h< shaded the Filipino 1 over the last foui or five rounds. His fine boxing wor him tile fight. Both scaled 9st 911 b. A BRISK OPENING The bout opened briskly, Jamitc leading briskly with his left and scor ing with it too. McCarthy land ed with the left .as the Filipino olosed in with head down. It was fast work for the opening round, Round two saw McCarthy even up matters with some stinging lefts straighf to the face, Jamito getting some hard blows to McCarthy’s ribs without doing much harm, hut a right to McC-ir thy’s left eye left its mark. In the fourth round McCarthy twice landed a straight left flush to Jatnito’s mouth, and then rushed him to the corner with an upper cut, when Jamito cleverly turned the position and landed a heavy right to McCarthy’s head. In the fifth round both boxers were holding and had to be parted. Jamitc rushed McCarthy, and got home good and hard with right and left to the body. McCarthy pushing out right and left straight jabs, but Jamito appeared to prefer the infighting, in which he often got home with short arm jabs to his opponent’s chin. In the seventh round, McCarthy landed. three smashing rights to Jamito’! jaw, which, must .have hurt, nevertheless the Filipino dashed in to smasli both gloves to the body. Round eighf was a fairly even break in which both boxers were punished, and towards tlu end of the round McCarthy sent Jamito staggering on to the ropes with s left which had the weight of his bod\ behind ,it. McCarthy boxed splendidly in the ninth round, holding Jamito ofl with a. good straight left, and the Filipino took more punishment in this than in any' previous round. As the fighf went on McCarthy, showed more of Jus , boxi/ig poiyers, standing thp darkie oil him with ,right and He also made Jamito miss several tunes, Often Jamito. would rush his op ponent to the , ropes, but McCarthy oovered well and avoided much bad punishment. Although Jamito landed round arm blows to the body they were not of the kind to do much harm. STILL LIVELY In the twelfth round Jamito las L rjglft into eebiaflush- blow to the'body; 'and. in a mix-up both gave and received. In round 13 Jamito smashed home the right to McCarthy’s neck twice in succession, but coming off the ropes the Australian squared the account with a right to the chin. In the 14th, McCarthy landed two crashing blows to Jamito’s mouth, but the Filipino came back? gamely to score a left to the nose. Then came the final round, at which time honours were fairly even, Jamito ■ tried, /hard to, put on- points, tod fush- ’ od. McCarthy all over theming,. They clinched and were parted and exchanged freely in close work, but McCarthy scored with the uppercuts and straight drives. The decision went to McCarthy, but was received with boos in many parts of the hall. Jamito by his fighting qualities had won the sympathy of a good part of the audience, but it was a case of a good boxer and a fighter, and the boxer, a clever one, won. THE PRELIMINARIES There vVere some interesting - preliminaries to the big fight. The first meeting was a four-round amateur middleweight contest between G. Dixon, lOst 131 b, and W. Strange, list- 31b. The heavier.man was using both right and left straight drives, but did not always land, while Dixon was better in tho close work. There was a lot of force behind Strange’s blows when he did land. In the third round Strange took a lot of chances to get in a big blow and was punished accordingly, hut Dixon had not a big enough punch, The final round was a real mix up. Dixon won on points. C. Hoskins, Bst 61b, and G. Jefferies, Bst 21b, met in a four-round amateur featherweight contest. Jefferies ran up against a nasty left in the first round, getting a cut under the eye. Jefferies missed quite a lot, and Hoskins was always the better boy. Hoskins won easily on points. F. Stone, 9st 101 b, and J. TJnvin, 9st 71b, only went on© round out of four in an amateur middleweight contest, Urwin’s seoond throwing the towel in at the end of the first 'round. Stone had shaken Erwin up pretty badly with blowsto the jaw, and soon after they went t 6; their corners following the bell Erwin turned it in, the decision going to Stone, who was an aggressive boxer. An interesting four-round bout between A. J. Cleverley, present New Zealand middleweight amateur champion, and W. A. Davies, of H.M.S. Dunedin, provod a popular contest. Cleverley did practically all of, the leading and scored several jabs to the face. Tho navy man missed narrowly with an uppercut that would have done mischief. In the second round Davies rushed Cleverley to the ropes, but the local lad avoided until close to the end of the round, when Davies caught him with a right swing heavily to the side of the head. In tho third round the sailor very strongly bored in again and registered a hefty right to th 4 head, but Cleverley countered with his left and followed up with a right to the ribs. He covered cleverly, and though the sailor was looking for a knook-out the local lad was too good, and three times he scored fine blows to Davies’s head. Just before the end Davies was warned for giving a rabbit punch. Cleverley was tne better boxer against a strong and powerfully built man. He won on points, a decision which reoeived a mixed hearing, but was quite the right one.

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