EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY

NZ Truth, Issue 1178, 28 June 1928, Page 10

EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY

But Not Until The Finish Was Arrived At (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) Possibly the Northern Association thought it was an inspiration to arrange one more meeting between Harry Casey and Artie Hay. THE pair have met only three times kept more than busy breaking apart previously. As an inspiration, it the two men m every round, fell very flat, more particularly Opoe Casey . s head came io rest following on such a bright affair as too sudden | y aga j ns t Hay's breadthat which preceded it. basket— and Hay went down for In the first place Casey was suffer- seven or . hti ing from a cold and did not look him- -,- ■ self, while neither man was fighting Jt was fifteen rounds of entanglefor a title. ment, broken with some dancing apart, . ' , , . „ . some unaffectionate embracing and As a hundred-pound affair, it some clove-beating by^ Hay. was a very decided frost, though Occasionally the referee joined m the Hay can hardly be blamed for that. dance. Hay very often pushed Casey He certainly did his best to make it away with his left under the jaw. ' an open fight, but Casey is too old a Casey tried to draw Hay by shamringmaster and too well- versed m ming groggy, but the latter was not to every possible kind of ringcraft to be had. stand off when meeting a man of much Casey mishit to Hay's left leg above longer reach. the knee. Hay clapped his glove to the There may have been some mis- place and limped for a moment, understanding as to the game both men The referee admonished Casey more had arranged to play on their fourth than onee — and once suggested that it meeting, for while Hay conveyed the was a fight. impression that he was trying to dig None of the spectators seemed out a winkle with his long left, his sor wh jn the fifteen th round, opponent was indulging m a pastime the fi ht was awarded Hay on a resembling "Can't see me. # i The start was tame and at no stage " of the affair was there anything to Casey made a hurried exit from the arouse the enthusiasm of the crowd, ring— it happened near his corner— who frequently interjected with a score without extending his hand to the of facetious injunctions. winner. • Hay made repeated attempts to open It can only be hoped that this is the his winkle and Casey closed m on him fourth and last meeting of this iliwell smothered, while the referee was matched pair.