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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1938

Royal Navy Boxing Finals

Three Knock-Outs

And Technical Knock-

Outs Featured

BOY FERGUSON'S VERY GAME

PERFORMANCE

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(By 'REFEREE ")

OFFICERS' CHAMPIONSHIPS

Welterweight

Three knockouts and three technical knockouts featured the finals of the China Fleet Amateur, Officers' and Boys' boxing cham- Pay. Mid. Collins (Birmingham) beat pionships, at the China Fleet Club Theatre last night, when a large | gathering witnessed some very exciting sport including one or two surprise reversals of form.

H.M.S. Kent, which is at present in Shanghai, but which left behind in the Colony her team of boxers, won the Amateur Team Competition easily and before the last event on the programme-was .completed.

One of the best tights of the

Welterweight ·

Lieut. Pares (Duncan).

Middleweight Mid. Falle (Kent) beat Mid. Me- Culley (Dorsetshire).

BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIPS' Bantamweight

Boy Scarlet (Eagle) beat Boy Hefti (Kent).

Lightweight

Boy Rumsey (Birmingham) beat Boy L/Stoker Clarke (Kent) knocked out Jones (Dorsetshire) on a technical de-

evening was the final of the Ama- A. B. Conlon (Diana) in the first cision. teur Championship for Middle-round.

of

Middleweight

Middleweight

beat

Boy Ferguson (Birmingham) Boy Campbell (Kent) on a technical

weights in which Sto. Parrish, H. M. S. Kent, gained a narrow de- Stoker Parrish (Kent) beat Stoker knock-out, cision over Sto. Simpson, of H. M. Simpson (Birmingham).

S. Birmingham.

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Light-Heavyweight Stoker Curran (Kent) beat Both were almost on a par phy-Rogers (Birmingham). sically, although the winner was

Heavyweight perhaps the better built of the two. Ord. Howson (Birmingham)

Tuckre (Kent) not being so muscle-bound. Lead-ed out Mne.

first round. ing with a fine straight-left -and following it up with a dangerous right, he scored heavily in the open- ing two rounds although slackening up in the last, when Simpson made a vain endeavour to regain lost ground.

VERY GAME LOSER

One of the gamest displays of boxing during the four days was witnessed in Boys' Middleweight Championship, when Boy Campbell, of H. M. S. Kent, gained a technical-knockout decision over Boy Ferguson.

Ferguson lost the fight when he became erratic and waded in with his head down, taking heavy punish- ment in the last round when he was sent down three times, but rose to his feet again amidst terrific ap plause only to collapse a fourth, time, when the fight was stopped. The referee congratulated him a very plucky display and he was given a great ovation.

VIA SAME ROUTE

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Ord. Sea. Howson won the Ama- teur Heavyweight Championship by the same method in which he en- tered the final round, the knock- out route. He was, if anything, the lighter of the two finalists, but bided his time and eventually rocked Mne. Tucker with a terrific blow to the head and one to the solar-plexus, sending his opponent down for the final count after 65 seconds.

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Ldg. Sto. Clarke, of H. M. S. Kent, also won his Amateur Welter- weight Championship by a knock- out, landing a damaging blow A. B. Conlon's solar-plexus after a minute's mad scramble and the lat~ ter was grovelling when the fight was awarded to Clarke.

At the conclusion of each of the finals, trophies and miniatures were present to the winners and runners- up by the Senior Naval Officer,

Captain F. R. Barry, R.N., of H. M.

3. Dorsetshire.

The results were:

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Flyweight

Boy Green (Birmingham) beat Ord. Williams (Birmingham).

Bantamweight

Stoker Somerville (Seamew) beat A.

B. Edensor (Birmingham);'

Featherweight

Stoker Chick. (Dorsetshire) knocked out A. B. Upton - (Birmingham) in the first round.

Lightweight.

Stoker Smith (Kent) beat A, B. Smith (Seamew)..

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Stoker

£2000 GOLF. PROFESSIONAL TOURNAMENT

(By AIR MAIL)

London.

The sectional qualifying competi- tions in the "Daily Mail" £2000 Pro- fessional Tournament, the finals of which will be decided at Queen's Park, Bournemouth, on March 29, 30, and 31, have been arranged as follows:-

March 1-Scottish, at Prestwick St.

Nicholas. March 8-Eastern, at Hunstanton. March 9-Welsh-venue to be ar-

March

ranged.

14 and 18-Northern, at Wheatley, Doncaster. March 15-West of England, at St.

Enodoc.

March 16 and 17-Southern, at Sun-

ningdale.

The dates and venues for the Mid- land and North of Ireland sections

will be announced later.

The number of players to qualify INTER-UNIT CHAMPIONSHIP The following were the final posi-from each section are.-Southern tions in the Inter-Unit Championship: 37, Northern 25, Midland 16, Eas

H.M.S. Kent 61; H.M.S. Birmingham tern 8, West of England 6, Welsh 6, knock-42; H.M.S. Dorsetshire 25; Small in the Ships 20; 8th; Destroyer Flotilla 18;

Scottish 6, Northern Ireland 1 H.M.S. Eagle 15; H.M.S. Medway 8. total 100.

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