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Page 20 PROPOSED NEW MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE AT INVERNESS
James Braid's Report
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come from players, there would be an annual charge on the rates of £550,
The meeting agreed to recom-
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1989.
BOXING FIRMAMENT WELCOMES A NEW STAR
BILLY CONN BEATS WORLD
MIDDLES CHAMPION
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Fred Apostoli, middle-weight champion of the world, was beat-
The report of James Braid on the proposed new municipal goal course mend that application be made to en on points by Billy Conn, of Pittsburg, in a ten-rounds non-title the Physical Training and Recrea-fight at Mailison-square Garden, at The Bught, together with ́an- estimated cost, has been submitted tion (Scotland) North Regional Com- mittee for a grant before deciding as to the Inverness Town Council.
Mr. Braid recently visited Inverto the lay-out of the course. ness and inspected the site to be used as an 18-hole course, or, alter- natively, as a nine-hole course. He also drew out plans, and stated that a nine-hole course would cost £1800 and an 18-hole course £2700.
APPEAL FORʼGRANT
Barnes Not To Leave Australia
Sydney.
S. G. Barnes, the young Test To include, the reconstruction of cricketer, who had made a request Bught House, the Town Chamber to the Australian Cricket Board of lain estimated that the capital out-Control-for permission to go to Eng- lay would be £4200, and the main- land to play in League cricket, will tenance charges would be £900. now stay in Australia. He has now After giving credit to estimated in-been found suitable employment
Conn, who is so good-looking that he can hold his own with the handsomest of the film stars, is also a beautiful boxer, and he gave Apostoli a boxing lesson last night. He beat off Apostoli's deperate infighting with hard left hooks to the jaw and heavy rights to the body:
The fight was fought at a furious Pace, with the crowd yelling encourage- away at each other. The champion did ment to both men as they battered most of the forcing, but Conn's defen- sive work earned him the decision in The Pittsburg man, who is just over six of the ten rounds. 21, has already fought most of the world. leading middle-weights of the
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and is looked upon as a coming cham- pects to enter the cruiser-weight divi- sion soon.. pion in the heavier classes. He ex-
MAY MEET KRIEGER
His accurate punching stopped' Apos- toli dead, and he badly damaged the champion's right eye, which had to be taped. Towards the end of the fight Apostoli grew savage and bored in, swinging away with both fists, but Conn, unruffled, swayed away from his rushes and scored well with long-range.. punches that. worried his opponent. The fight ended with Conn landing a hard left to the body and a right to the jaw that shook the champion badly.
Conn, who started fighting as a light- weight when he was only 16, has never fought as an amateur, and after losing his first fight, proceeded to win 38 in a row. He has beaten Teddy Yarosz, a former middle-weight champion, Young Corbett III, the man whom Apostoli beat to secure the NY.S.A.C. world's title, and has won one and lost one with Solly Kreiger, N.B.A. world's middle weight title-holder.
Hymie Caplin, Krieger's. ́manager, router. saw the fight and said that he had ar- ranged with Conn's manager to have a "rubber" match between Kreiger and Conn at Madison Square Garden, verd dani
ANOTHER WORLD RECORD
Don Tallon's Seven Victims In One Innings
some
Brisbane, (By Air Mail). Don Tallon, the Queensland · player, who has been or time on the fringe of Test hon- ours against England, equalled a world wicket-keeping record_by dismissing seven players in an in- nings...
Playing for Queensland in the Sheffield Shield match here, he stumped four Victoria batsmen, and caught three. At the end of the first day's play Tallon hatf ac- men, and follow-
counted for five catching Barry-
Scott and stumping L. O. Fleet- wood-Smith."
OTHER SIMILAR FEATS Other wicket-keepers to dismiss seven men in one innings are Smith (E. J.), for Warwickshire, against Derbyshire, at Birmingham in 1926;~ Farrimond, for. Lancashire, against Kent, at Manchester in 1990; and Price, for Middlesex against York- shire at Lord's, in 1937. ⠀⠀ ⠀ *.
Tallon recently equalled a world record by taking twelvo wickets in a match. His-seven dismissals In the present match bring his total for the season so far to 25, more than can be claimed by any of his side's bow- lers, Tallon added gloss to his por- formance by accomplishing it with- out conceding a byo,