TOO MUCH HANGING ON

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 10

TOO MUCH HANGING ON

One Wanted To Fight, But The Other JDid Not (From "N.Z. Truth's" In vercarglll Representative.) The contest between Hector Leclrie and Tommy Griffiths, both of Dunedin, turned out a bit of a frost.

DEPBREB "SAM" TALL did not get IV to work soon enough to prevent the bout developing into the old, old thing. Leckie shot out his left and clinched for dear life. Strange to say, each man opened the other's left eyebrow in the second round—^blood was all over Leckie's face and Griffiths' body. Leckie used the weight of his torso well, but the in-fighting was like a Chinese play — tap, tap, for a full twenty-four hours. By the end of the fifth round, no one had seen much except blood. Griffiths tried to shake himself free from the clinches. It wasn't until the seventh round, however, that the referee kept them breaking. A merry mill then followed. Straight two-handed work to the head brought Griffiths gradually to the forei and by the end of round eight the house had hopes of seeing some glove workThings improved further In the ninth. Leckie showed a weakness with his left and Griffiths landed four extra good ones to his face. Round ten saw two real body blows.

Leckie pushed with his left, while his opponent hit. . Anything extra in the eleventh round went to Griffiths, who persisted in shooting out a straight left The twelfth produced some fair exchanges. ■ . . Leckie wae pelting hard to the body and doing well, while Griffiths sent two quick, hard gloves to the other man's The thirteenth opened with a ribroaster eachGood shots to head and body followed, and just as the gong went Griffiths landed Leckie a !'purler" on the lips. > Next round would be the last, so each man boxed. Returns were only slightly in favor of Griffiths, whose face blows were making Leckie confused. In the middle of the last round Griffiths got Leckie right under the point of the nose. Leckie managed to grip his antagonist and the referee couldn't separate them. Leckie manoeuvred a recovery by falling forward on to Griffiths for the last half-minute. Griffiths got the decision, and when he meets a man who is not allowed to hug him he will be accounted a line little boxer.