BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 76, 1 December 1906, Page 3

BOXING.

(By Upper-Cut).-TERRIFIC HGttT IN SYDNEY. Mike Williams, of S' Africa, Defeats Biiiy McCall. "Brennan's Amphitheatre" as the. National Sporting Club, of Sydney, is now called—the whole club house having been added to the original hall, making it one of 'the largest places m that business m the world —was packed to suffocation on Tuesday night, Nov. 20, when the brawny South African Irishman and exsoldier. Mike Williams, met that onetime human hurricane, Billy McCall, the gallant Armidalian who, till he met Tim Murphy, 15 months ago, had an unbeaten certificate. The S'African weighed I2st 4ft and McCall list 81b. The fight was of the tornado type and it was slog, slash, smash, all of three rounds. In the second Billy was beaten to his knees just as the "-ong sounded. Williams bled at the nose and from a cut on the cheek and McCall 1 s lips showed carmine, as ij;he round plosed. ; In the third round^-the fightßijg wajs hair-raising* Mfc Gall's famous irififijhting suited the phenomenally strong Williams, and it became a matter of which could stand the fierce punching longest. Mike's- body blows decided the "uestion, for when the irong sounded Billy could hardly walk to his' chair and the towel sailed into the ring m token of his surrender. McCall has never been the same man since his third fight with the Pittsburger, Jim Scanlan, whom he had previously beaten, m six and three rounds, but who that time went seventeen and often looked like winning.' It transpired that about the fifth round McCall had wrenched his right shoulder over J im 's splendid rigid high left and that t for twelve rounds he fought m excruciating agony. He went into pub, keeping at Newcastle, and though a strictly sober man, the late and long hours did him no good and it was two years before the shoulder was fit for use again- Then he met Murphy. and though he fought well, lacked dash and was defeated. He's now evidently a back number. At ttie some- time the blood-hungry hounds who hooted the brave fellow- for turning it up. when he found the struggle hopeless, ought to be sunk m a muck-punt and towed outside the heads so that their foul carcasses should not pollute the soil.