CHOCOLATE BEATEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 87, 3 December 1931, Page 2

CHOCOLATE BEATEN

canzoneri gets decision over negro. BOXER. * ' burst into tears. NEW YORK, Saturday. Coloured boxer, "Kid" Chocolate, saw victory swept away in a flood of his own tears when Tony Canzoneri won a fiercely-fought 15-round contest here by a narrow margin. • 1 Both the lightweight and junior welterweight titles were at stake, and when the referee, after the two judL ges had disagreed, awarded the bout to the holder Kid Chocolate tlirew baek his head and wept. The crowd booed the decision. » "Kid" Chocolate entered the ring heavily backed on the short end of eight to five in the betting. ; Craceful, lean, . shiny, and black, Chocolate presented an amazing antithesis to Canzoneri, who was short, pallid, and sCarcely comdng up ro i the lanky negro's shoulder. It was the first lightweight championship 1 between the two races since Joe Gans j held the title two decades ago. Fully 19,000 saw one of the severest slugging matches New York has viewed for a long time. Like a small hull on the rampage, kicking up heels in glee as he marched through Choeolate's hooks and jabs, Tony rammed at the negro's sides, paying no attentiori to defence. he was apparently impervious to punishment. In the tenth the slender negro with both eyes puffed, begari to bend in the middle as Tony plastered his sides. He would pull his elbows in each time the champion leaped f orward4 At the opening of the 15-th, , however, they came out fiercely, as if just starting, and Chocolate was rocking the champion badly at the last bell.