THEY KNEW TOO MUCH

NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 10

THEY KNEW TOO MUCH

When Familiarity Bred Respect, Not Contempt

(From "I^.Z. Truth's" Special "Dunedin Representative.)

With just enough murmurs of dissatisfaction and disappointment to remind one of a half -dined epicurean robbed of his wine, a large crowd streamed out after the Tommy MclnnesLachie 'McDonald fight.

YET, taken from first to fifteenth gWg, it was a soundly-fought combat, ' with an aggregate of hard punches which would have shaken a set of Pyramids. Each gave just about as much as he received— and that with double-handed generosity— but nobody could, dispute the decision that went to Mclnnes. Nor would anyone deny that from the spectacular standpoint • th'e fight lacked color. As this was their fourth meeting, it looked as though Tommy and Lachie knew too much about each other's tactics. (£ ■. Add to this the fact that their styles are far. from being dissimilar, and each is as- hard as the timbers of Troy, and there is nothing else left to account for a battle m which brilliancy was conspicuous only m its absence.

After the fight, McDonald told the Press that his arm, which was recently injured, had given out m the second round, and from the way he was using the wing during the second half of the scrap, "N.Z. Truth" has no reason to doubt his statement. Referee Don. Paterson had plenty of clinches to attend to, but he would have been m order to have pulled McDonald up for the way he was constantly claiming Mclnnes's left. . With this win, Tommy breaks even with Lachie — two fights each — so no doubt there, will be a "decider." • If there is, and they want a crowd, it. is "Truth's" opinion that the pair will have to introduce more of the round - the - ring - and - get-your-man element to retain their popularity.