BOXING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 June 1913, Page 2

BOXING.

! HAGERTY KNOCKED OUT. PORTER REGAINS CHAMPIONSHIP. * * (By Telegraph. — Prets Aisoriatinn.) I AUCKLAND, Last Night. j At last "Jim" Hagerty. th? wellj known Timaru light-weight boxer, | hasl a knock-out figuring against him ; in the records. "Lon" Porter, in accomplishing the feat, regained th? liubt-weigbt professional ■"hampio"ship of the Dominion. The pai • met last night in the Newborn A-,.| sedation's first carnival, of the sea- !. son. ami provided one of the most j exciting contests Auckland has seen ' for several years. j It was? not a particularly notable contest in th? matter of cleverness, but the two lads wer e busy all the time, and there was scarcely a dull moment. The finish was quite unexpected. It happened in the unlucky thirteenth round—unlucky, at least, for Hagerty, for at the time there was little between them in points. ! Hagerty .had much the better of the first few rounds, Port?r then showing poor generalship. Later, Porter used his feet and his left hand better. Hagerty ig a boxer who, in boxing parlance, ' punches from where he stands, and seldom, '. when hj? misses, can he recover quickly enough to get after his man , with immediate effect. By moving ; back from Hagerty's punches in the ; latter rounds, and then chopping in left and rights ere the Timaru lad had regained his balance properly. Porter reduced the deficit of points considerably, and when the thirteenth I round commenced lie had only to keep I on in the same style to win by a narrow margin of points. In the wri- , ter'g opinion, in footwork and defence generally. Porter was th "> beti ter of the two, but his generalship j was not always sound. It seemed j certain that the contest would go j the full fifteen rounds, alhtough it 1 was vigorous. Both men stripped I well. Port?r weight 9st 121b, Hagerty 9st 71b. I The end came in the thirteenth ' round. Porter scored with a left I cross, Hagerty missing badly. Taking many of Hagerty's punches over j his shoulder, Porter used both hands I with effect. Hagerty came in again with head clown, and Porter, step- ! ping inside Hagerty's swings, uppercut' severely left, right and left ! again. Down went Hagerty on his j face to be counted out.

Porter was given a gr?at ovaiton, and Hngertv was also cheered heartily. Mr Burns refereed a clean contest.