AUCKLANDER PLEASES NAPIER BOXING FANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 10

AUCKLANDER PLEASES NAPIER BOXING FANS

FRANK TAYLOR’S FIGHTS

Frank Taylor, the Auckland featherweight, is a popular boy down Hawke’s Bay way. Twice he has appeared in

the ring there with Tommy Griffiths, the clever Dunedinite, and each time the Aucklander has made himself a favourite with the Bay public by his excellent displays. The bout with Griffiths last Monday is labelled by Napier critics as the finest seen there for many a long daS r . Over

the last two rounds tremendous excitement prevailed as both boys stood toe to toe, slugging each other with both hands the crowd yelling madly all the while. The audience was on its feet for the whole of the last round, as the two chased one another all over the square, and when the referee raised both hands aloft in token of a draw the house cheered both men for quite two minutes.

On the same night Johnnie Leckie repeated his performance put up in Auckland some weeks back by defeating Duke Maddox. In the ninth round Maddox, through a crocked ankle, could not continue, and Leckie got the fight. Not many know that the same thing happened in Auckland when the pair previously met, but in that case the referee did not stop it quick enough, and Leckie knocked Maddox out.