English Boxing Fans Are Becoming Perky

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 10

English Boxing Fans Are Becoming Perky

British boxing enthusiasts are holding up their heads again. Phil Scott’s recent victory, in New York, over Pierre Charles, Belgian heavy-weight champion, in 10 rounds, has made them perky. The “New York Times” says of Scott: “The English heavy-

weight did everything but knock out his rival. That he failed to do so can be attributed either to the fact that Charles was equipped with a cast-iron jaw or that the Englishman lacks a destructive blow. There is no doubt, however, that Scott is a rapid and punishing hitter.” Scott weighed 14.5 and Charles 15.1.

got one round. I must play carefully.” Gone is that bird-like flight of the ball, soaring up into the heavens, and back comes that ground-hugging, scrub-finding field of a drive, and the player’s score is worse than it ever was. A few more week-ends, and the game has humbled him to the dust. It is the holidays which makes golfers realise all the quicker than the first 10 years at the game are the worst. After that they become convinced that it is like taking up the violin—the more they learn the more they become aware that they have to learn.