BOXING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 7

BOXING.

A NEW ORDER. A dramatic and extraordinary end 0.1 i.e to a hrj-'l-hitting bout at the Guild Hall, Melbourne, on November 6, between Bill Turner, of Tasmania, and Bill Walshe, of Victoria, The fight way billed as for the heavyweight championship of Australia, which is claimed by Walshc. Turner, says an exchange, is tall, heavy, slow and powerful. Ho scaled at i:Js>t 3 lb, and opened with heavy, lugging work. Walsh went for in-fight- I ing and safoty, and the referee, Ernest Eullerlove, amateur middle-weight and heavy-weight champion, had to work like a wrestler to keep the men separate. Turner had to take heavy punishment in the second round, and hundreds of throats jeered when he hit while Fullerlovo was separating them. He was warned by the referee. During the next two rounds Walsh by ducking repeatedly, missed all TurI uer's terrific swipes, but half stc-pp lan uppercut with his jaw. Turner ' was hit about the head and body, and I was down for two seconds. Several 'appeals were made against him for hitting in clinches.

Then the end came abruptly. Fii! lerlovo, while- separating the men o:v

ly in the fifth round, was nppn: "" struck by Turner. Like a flash : referee's bare fist shot out, and Turner was on his back, bleeding ,groggy and almost senseless .

Pandemonium reigned. A thousand people stood excitedly and yelled. Three policemen jumped into the ring, and Turner rose, a terrible sight, pale and fearfully distressed, and bleeding freely from an ugly gash under the right eye. He reeled on to the ropes and stumbled dizzily into his corner.

Spectators rushed the ring. Some shouldered Walshe, and nearly smothered him with embraces. The crowd yelled with amazement and excitement, and the ring and stage became a confused mass of violently-gestic-ulating men, policemen and broken chairs. The sight of a boxer being knocked out by a. referee had knocked a thousand men off their equilib num. When partly recovered Turner made an ugly attempt to reach Fullerlovo ho brushed aside the crowd, crying: "What was the foul?" and it took two policemen to get him back to his corner . Then 'Fullerlovo re-enterd the ring and announced that Walshe had won. The lights bega.n to go out, and the crowd took the hint and walked off quietly. The next contest between Mehegan (Australia) and Wells (England) should 1)0 willing, as Wells has written to the London Sportsman as follows: —"As was only to lie expected after Mel hegan's 'fortunate decision' over me in our late encounter at tho Ring, the sporting public would be favored wit'. a plan of his coming engagements, and, according to your article in today's issue, he certainly starts with a 'full hand.' Before, however. hj» finally makes up his mind to tako th long journey to Australia —or even America —I wish to remind him that two weeks to bind a 'return match, not only for £IOOO a-side, but for any larger sum Mehegan's supporters may choose to ask for, my offer to hold pood win, draw, or lose, with Welsh on November 11 next. So if, a.v Mehage.n states in his interview, he knew that he was 'hurting me -about the body.' he i::>,v has a fair chance of hurting what to me is of greater importance i.e., my pocket. In reading Mehegan's remarks, I notice that he says I lost the fight twice, and that I must have heard the gong in the, to nie, fatal fourteenth round. This, of course I deny, as I always have done, find enquire ever so much, I have yet to find the person who was near the ring who goes any further than to say '.l thought I heard it.' Of course, had our late contest gone the full fifteen rounds the decision may still have gone aganst mo, but takng into consideration that after tho ninth round five and six to one was freely offered on me, and that Mr Corn", in speaking to his friends, stated that I was so far ahead on points that bar a. knock-out it was impossible for me to bo beaten."'