NEGRO WINS BIG FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 9

NEGRO WINS BIG FIGHT

FIERCE BOUT WITH G. COOK CANADIAN'S EASY VICTORY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) TORONTO, Tuesday. Larry Cans, the Canadian negro heavy-weight boxing champion, outclassed George Cook, the Australian title-holder, In a 10-round contest and won comfortably. Gans weighed 18911 b and Cook 194»1b. The negro led in the first round, pounding the Australian to the ropes with blows to the head. The second was even. Gans again came to the fore in the third with hard lefts to the body. Cook was missing. Cook continued to miss in the fourth round, but landed several stiff punches to the head and drew blood from his opponent’s nose. The round was even. Both men fought furiously and gave and took punishment in the fifth, but the Canadian led. The negro had the Australian dizzy in the sixth under a terrific attack. He won the round by a wide margin. The seventh round found Cooks nose bleeding and his opponent making a target of it. The Australian seemed to be content to hold on. It was Gans’s round. Cook fought more gamely in the eighth and the round was even. He was desperately tired in the ninth and swung blindly. He tried boxing the negro. This round was even. The last round was a hammer-and-tongs affair, both men trying to knock each other out. It was Gans’s round. AN OFFER TO HEENEY MATCH AGAINST GERMAN (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Tuesday. Mr. Joe Jacobs, American agent for the German boxer Sehmeling, says Tom Heeney, of New Zealand, has received an offer from a Berlin promoter to meet Sehmeling in June at Berlin.