RING PARS

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 10

RING PARS

By VERITAS

WAS NOT MUCH IN IT But Most Would Have Likec Drawn Decision There* are some good hooters—or rooters—up in Hawkes Bay. Perhaps cheering the black-and-whites home during the football season develops sturdy lungs! /

WHATEVER be the reason, there Is no .denying the fact that when it does not get what It wants, a Napier audience can let itself go. It did so last week. The noise came after •. the referee gave Tommy Griffiths the decision over Frank, Taylor. An obviously Auckland house, Taylor was getting the encouragement all night, and with a very close contest the uproar was expected. „ Taylor -was making his Initial bow as a pro., and the ex-clever amateur went well enough to suggest he will be a force to be reokoned with when he gets the necessary experience'. A little'on the light side to be fighting featherweights, what he lacks in poundajro he makes up/for in height and reach. He Is built on willowy lines, and this has Its advantage—he otters very little target to an opponent. He has a free and open' style, albeit a puzzling style for one facing him; and when he gets the idea of following up an opening he will do a deal better. That he had Griffiths thinking hard at times was very plain, but even after I kmniimiMiMimfmimimwimimmmnlanra^

allowing for this Griffiths was not the boy. he generally la On many occasions he tried to do things, only to find his muscles had not acted with the precision they should have. He was too slow, and that is a, direct negative to the Griffiths "N.Z. Truth" is conversant with. That Dunedin fight, coupled with the travelling, must have had its effect. Never at any stage did the contest get exciting, and, to be honest, at times the methodidal work of the pair became a little boresome. They jogged from round to round, pecking away at each other, going into a clinch for a few seconds and then breaking clear without any command from the referee. Taylor had 9 small margin passing the half-way mark, but Griffiths pioked up the leeway over the concluding stages and the referee gavo it to him. . ' The crowd far away from the ringside was Incensed, but the noisy ones were a little unreasonable. Had "Truth" been called on to give a verdict we would have nominated a draw.