VERCOE GETS DECISION OVER CLINTON.

Shannon News, 15 September 1925, Page 4

VERCOE GETS DECISION OVER CLINTON.

UNINTENTIONAL FOUL IN NINTH ROUND. SENSATIONAL END TO STRENUOUS BATTLE. BLENHEIM. Last Night. Th e scheduled fifteen-round professional fight between Dickie Vercoe 8.13 J). of Marlborough, and Derry Clinton (8.11), of Palmerston North, ended somewhat sensationally in the ninth round. From the first gong, the battl e was hard and strenuous, the local man having a shade the better of the exchanges. In the sixth round,, Vercoe had Clinton nearly g - on e on the ropes twice and the gong was a welcome sound to the Palmerston lad. Clinton, however, made a good recovery and made things lively in the seventh and eighth. In the ninth, both men were fighting last and just as the gong sounded, Vercoe fell, squirming. It did not appear as though Clinton had hit low with his hands, but appearently his knee had conUe into play inadvertently. The referee pronounced the fight over, and after a conference with the three doctors who examined Vercoe gave the decision against Clinton on a foul. Vercoe was leading on points at the time. In the preliminaries, the defeat of the Wellington Centre champion, Wis Satherley, by a local amateur, Les Hewitson, caused some surprise. Hewitson won all the way.