LECKIE CONTINUES TO SCORE

NZ Truth, Issue 1182, 26 July 1928, Page 10

LECKIE CONTINUES TO SCORE

STYLES DID NOT BLEND Neither Did The Decision Suit Quite A Number Said the gentleman from Waipukurau to the gentleman from Gisborne, 'twas a horrible decision.

BECAUSE Harry Ca,sey was voted the winner over Jack Carroll at Wellington on Monday night a lot of people got up and yelled out — yelled loudly/top. Judging byy the noise they made they did not agree with the verdict — > or were they going 'crook because the I fight wsb over? i Casey won according to "N.Z. I Truth," but had he punched cori rectly. he. would have won by a big | margin. Harry.s left rip was too much of a slap, but when he did turn and connect with the knuckles it hurt. Carroll, on this outing, la more or less a one-hand fighter. . . His left mitt is a useful weapon and he poked it out to some purpose, but so little did he use his right that he might as well not had it. That there is power m that hand there is no doubt— his record has more than its share of short-cut victories. And it is hardly likely that the left brought about these stoppages — not the left we saw this week, anyhow. In a way it was a disappointing sort of a fight, with little to thrill. The styles of the two men did not blend. Casey with his crouch and Carroll up straight, a la the old school, were direct negatives. . Casey, from his position on the floor, would weave, m and out and then, like the celebrated kangaroo, would bound and let go- with that left,' which is a cross between a rip and a swing. Carroll was content to stand iffc like a gentleman and when Casey came up stab out a straight left that scored quite a lot, but also connected' more than a lot on the glove or oh the top of the head. N iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirniiiintiimniiniiiiiniMiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiimiimiiuifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiuiiiiii IlllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'lllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

The only incident m the whole evening was. m the fifth when Casey let go a haymaker. He swung his right from somewhere m the vicinity of the bucket and after taking about flve minutes to get to itdestination it landed high upon Carroll's cheek. Had. he connected with a shut glove Casey would probably have won there

and then, but the only effect •it had was to knock Carroll over. He got up straight away and the bell went. It can be said m favor of both fighters that their exhibition of in-fighting Was really good and had they set the same standard out m the open all would have been beautiful. And they thought Casey was lucky to" win — perhaps he was. Then, again, he would have been darned unlucky to lose. IHIIHIItl1llllllllllllllllltllllllllfltlllllllMltllltllHllllllltllltltlltllllllltllllliniltllllltlllltltlllfltl1l|lllttlll» iiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiumiiiiiiiimiiiiuiiimiiiiiuiniiiit