BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 178, 14 December 1912, Page 7

BOXING.

PAUL TIL—QUITTER. REMARKABLE FIGHT AT SYDNEY STADIUM. Yes, that is what the French lightweight, Paul Til, did at the Sydney Stadium on December 5 in his scheduled twenty rounds engagement with Sid Sullivan. Stung into a condition bordering on madness hy a punch on the, nose in the fifth round, Til gradually became disheartened, until lie was extremely anxious to get away from the scene of hostilities. Then'the fun started in earnest. Til wrangled excitedly with his seconds, incurred their wrath, fought foully despite repeated warnings from Referee Arthur Scott, and finally, at the end of the tenth round, walked out of the ring, amid the hoots of disgust from about 3000 Australians, whose greatest contempt in connection with ring matters is for the man who suffers from "cold feet."

And Til funked it that night as no oilier boxer has ever done in the Stadium. There have linen men who have suffered from "cold feet" in the ring, but. never previously has a man shown the -white feather 'as Til did. It is doubtful whether ;i more disgraceful exhibition has ever been seen in Sydney. And the worst of it was that there was no apparent excuse for the Frenchman's conduct. Had he been in poor condition, or been severely punished, it might have been possible to" condone his offence. When Til developed heart disease things were going in his favor. There cannot bo any doubt about that. When he climbed through the rope he was the pieiure of good health and condition. And his subsequent actions showed that even-thing was all right. In" a subsequent paragraph the Run savs: The Frenchman, Paul Til, who quitted so palpably in his fight with Sid Sullivan at the Stadium last night, today claims that he had good reason to walk out of the ring at the end of the tenth round. He has produced a certificate signed bv Dr. Lloyd Parry, superintendent of Svdncv Hospital, to the effect that the X-rays'had been put on both his hands, revealing a bad dislocation of the right hand and a splintering of the bones'of the thumb of the left hand. Mr. H. D. Mcintosh, previous to seeing the certificate, had decided not to pay till the loser's end of the. gate. His intention was to hand it over to the SydI ney Hospital.

Dave Smith, the .Australian middleweight boxer, was beaten by Leo Houek in a six-rounds bout in Philadelphia last month. The decision was what is known as a "newspaper" one. Smith's left eye, was closed early in the contest. Leo TTonck is a Oe'rman-Aineriran. and 24 years of age. He has figured in a great many contests, most of which have been six-round no-decision events in Philadelphia. He has beaten Harry Lewis a couple of times, and fought two indecision battles with "Frank Klaus. He also had a no-decision bout with Buck Grouse. Houck was to have boxed Kid Warner some time ago, but Smith took his''place. Houck said that if Smith were successful he would fight him, so that it would be reasonable to infer thai Smith defeated Wagner.