1938-04-25 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1938.

BENNY LYNCH HELD TO DRAW

GREAT EFFORT BY

PETER KANE

FIGHT THRILLS 40,000

AT LIVERPOOL

CHAMPION PAYS WEIGHT FORFEIT

(By HAROLD LEWIS)

Liverpool, March 25.

LONDON MAKE OFFER TO FARR

New Fork, March 25. - Joe Gould, manager of Tommy" Farr, revealed to-day that he had “re- ceived an offer from London for Farr to fight the winner of the Hamburg contest between Ben Foord and Walter Neusel.

Gould" såid" that no decision would be taken until after the Neusel-Foord encounter, but ke intimated that Farr's next fight would be in England as "there is sothing doing for him over here.""

BRISBANE

THE return fight between Benny Lynch, of Glas- WILL HAVE

gow, the flyweight champion of the world, and Peter Kane, of Golborne, ended in a draw on the THEIR TEST 'Anfield football ground to-night after 12 rounds of boxing every whit as hard, as clever and as thrill- ing as their first contest last October, when Lynch won by a knock-out in the 13th round.

Important Ground Improvements

IS. AFRICA'S

CRICKET TEST HOPES

1

Van Der Byl's Success

Capetown, March 24.

South Africa, who had the bet ter of their last series of test matches with England, have plenty of talent available for the tour of the MCC. team at the end of this year.

The Currie Cup season has been. particularly successful and the high standard of play has put attendances up. One or two ground records have been broken.

Western

Bruce Mitchell and Dudley Nourse will again bear the brunt of the batting, and they will be supported by Pieter Van Der Byl, (By QUEENSLANDER”)

the old Oxford Blue, E A. Rowan, Sydney, March. A. W. Briscoe, S. H. Curnow, K. A crowd of over 40,000 were naturally disappointed that their

Cricket officials and Queens-Viljoen and D. W. Begbie Van home man, Kane, did not get Mr. C. H. Douglas's verdict, and I think landers generally are relieved to Der By who captains Kane himself will reflect that if he could have fought some of the know that Brisbane is to have a Province, has scored over 500 runs. rounds in the middle of the contest over again he would have made

in Carrie Cup matches. Test match in 1940-41. sure of victory.

The bowling will be the weak- This decision has encouraged

Brown are useful men around whom for further improving accommo-j

to build up an attack. E. 0. Davies {dation at their ground.

may fill the role of fast bowler, and If the Q.C.A. can get £3000 of £4000 as its share of the profits from X. Balaskas, B. Roscoe, A. P. Mur- the coming tour to England the con-ray and R. E. Davies are in the templated improvements will be push-running as slow bowlers.

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He was betrayed by his own recklessness, with victory shining Q.C.A. officials to consider plans ness, but A. B. C. Langton and Len ahead, and gave Lynch the chance, with those powerful drives of his, which he never should have had.

Whereas the previous fight was blows and to plant his own sturdy at the flyweight, 8st, they fought punches under the heart. to-night at 8st 6lb. a weight bet-, In the 8th round he changed his

ter suited to the growing Kane. tactics and landed three successive ed on with.

The proposals include enlarging the

to

Lynch was overweight by Ub punches to the jaw, and in the present main stand to seat 6000 7oz He paid $100 forfeit and ninth round Kane was palpably against 4000. There is a suggestion in the early rounds was outbox-weakening. There were times, it to erect a double-decker stand in pre- ed to such an extent that it seem-is true, when Kane appeared to fol-ference to extending the structure

a point where it may cast shadows on ed highly probable he would pay low advice and to box with res- the wicket. far more dearly by the ignominy (traint and care. He invariably did

INCREASED SEATING of being knocked-out.

far more damage on these occa-l sions.

im-

The scheme also provides for creasing the seating capacity in the members stand, extending the "outer stand, and raising and extending the "hill" in the "outer "

The lavatory accommodation has been considerably improved this

sea-

LYNCH IMPROVES "The farther the fight went, how-

EXCITING ROUNDS ever, the better Lynch fought. He

But they never lasted long, and finished as hard a battle as he has in the last two rounds Kane openly ever had in his life looking well challenged Lynch to a test of pan-SOU able to continue for several more ching. These rounds were wildly If the Q.C.A, can go through with rounds. What a marvellously exciting. It seemed incredible that all its proposals before the English- tough athlete this Scot is!

either could take such terrific pun-all time the talk of Brisbane losing its men come again it should "scotch" for As was the case in the first fight, lishment and continue.

Test match. Kane began with a hurricane. two- Lynch, always the cooler and QC.A. reports an increase in re- handed onslaught, smashing blows more polished boxer, emerged from venue from the season's Sheffield to the face and body too rapidly for these final minutes the better man,

Shield matches-2650 against £1815 last season. any man to count.» Lynch, one of and it was no doubt his superiority the coolest, most methodical boxers towards the end that enabled him in the world to-day, was this time to get 2 araw. forced to accept the punishment.

SPEED BEAT HIM

COULD HAVE WON

Kane could have won. He look

Sheer speed defeated him, and the crowd was roaring in anticipa-fed brilliant when he chose to box tion of a knock-out as early as the thoughtfully, and puzzled and out-l first round, when the champion was boxed Lynch; but these periods sent reeling, dazed and hurt, by awere few and brief. punch delivered with all the force of which Kane was capable.

But this fight proved conclusive. 1y that, hard-hitter though Kane is, he can never hope to knock out this dour little Scot. It was in the fifth round that the fight began to turn

gra- Įdon.

DEADLY LEFT HOOK It seemed that Lynch was -dually fighting himself into form; but actually he had survived the early storm, and at the same time had gradually slowed Kane down by his occasional deadly left hook to the body.

This punch paved the way to his previous victory. Kane again had, no defence against it, and what was worse, he tended by his right- handed attacks to increase this venom by running on to the punch.

By the 6th round Lynch was able to find time to plan attacks. It was then that Kane's rashness so nearly led to his own defeat again, and certainly robbed him of his chance of victory.

SPLENDID BELIEF

Lynch was not quite at his best, but he was indeed formidable, and Kane does not deserve to be depriv ed of any credit on that score.

There was some booing at thë Liverpool, verdict but not much. fortunately, has not got the booing! disease that is so rampant in Lon-

ADAMSON CUP

In the Adamson Cup semi-finals yesterday at Happy Valley,

F. Buckle (15), beat T. B. Low (14) and

T. D. Paton (8) beat G. T May (15) by 4 and 3.

BAKEWELL AND NORTHANTS

Bakewell, the Northamptonshire

His belief in himself was splen-opening batsman who has been out

did to watch, but his frantic attacks

to knock Lynch out were sing

playing into the T

the game since his motor ac ut at the end of the 1938)

Lynch waited coolly to slip the wild coming summer.

PLAYER'S APPEAL UPHELD

The appeal of J. Robertson, of Kilmarnock, against a fortnight's suspension passed on him by his club was sustained by the Claims Committee of the Scottish F. A.

Bobertson had been ordered by one of his directors to act as lines- man in a reserve team match. He refused, and was suspended for a fortnight for insubordination. Following this successful appeal a clause may be inserted in play- ers contracts giving clubs the right to order them to act linesmen in Scottish - Aliance games. This would save the clubs the expense of having a travelling linesman as well as a travelling resérte.

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