NO FIGHT
BOUT ENDS ABRUPTLY IN MELBOURNE. CROWD CHEERS REFEREE’S DECISION. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A boxing contest at the West Melbourne Stadium between Ken Overlin and Attilio Sabatino, ended abruptly. .After seven rounds of one of the worst boxing exhibitions ever presented by overseas boxers in Australia, the referee, Jack Carroll, who had repeatedly told both men to put more action into their work, lifted his hands in disgust, signalled, “No fight,” and left the ring.- ’ . The crowd, which had been singing and whistling popular songs while the boxers sparred, cheered the referee’s decision.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 5
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