Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04

contestants, and see that they received
fair sum whether they won or lost. 1t
would soon have stimulating effect and
would bring lots of good heavyweight ma
never be heard from. The competition
could be started at the beginning of the
boxing season and continued throughout.
ending with grand wind-up for the big
prize. Then the winners Of the various
countries might be brought together and
the winner of this series of bouts could
be pitted against the champion.
I'm England they are starting some
thing Of that kind, I believe, and 1t
might be followed here with success. 1t
seems to me to be the only way to really
get hold of some good heavyweight ma
terial. I hope the promoters will take
notice OF what has been said and try to
uncover some big fellows. for goodness
sake we need them badly
Ray Bronson. the Indianapolis pre-
mier lightweight, was the first Of the
invading American boxers to make his
bow before a crowd of Australian box
ing fans. the Yankee boy defeating
Tommy Jones. the ex-champion Of Aus
tralia, in a fast twenty-round battle
at the> Stadium in Brisbane. While
Bronson Won as the Americans would
say. by a. mile. still his victory did not
satisfy him well as though 1t had been
a clean knockout. for he had expected
to put Jones away before the limit. His
failure to stop Jones was due, however,
to an injury to his right hand more than
anything else, but that fact was not made
known to the people at the ringside, nor
others, but kept under cover. Bronson
had hurt the knuckie Of his right hand In
training. and 1t was badly swollen, but
rather than disappoint the Brisbane crowd
he went through with the match:
The Brisbane spectators, that is, the ma
jority of them. proved to be poor losers.
and when Referee Flanagan gave the
decision to the American many gave the
'boo-hoo' yell. which was anything but
courteous to a stranger, especially after
the artistic manner in which he trimmed
their Mr.. Jones. and who. by the way, is
the clever boy. Sydney crowds are much
fairer to the boxers, from what I have
seen, for they understand the game bet
ter. -...
Bronson went into the bout too f1eshy
for fast work. as he weighed about 136.
while Jones was around 131. Ray had
only a week and half OF training, and
1t was not sufficient time to get into the
best form. although his wind was good.
for he never pulled in the twentieth round
and did not use a towel swinger during
the entire bout. Jones proved to be a
clever lad at tin-canning, and had a good
sharp left hand, but he did not seem to
have too much steam back Of it. He did
not lead over ten times in the entire
twenty rounds, and If it hadn't been that
Bronson was the aggressor and forced
the fight all the way. why. there would
have been no contest
1t was Bronson leading continually,
with Jones running away and occasional
ly pushing a light left to Rays face,
which seemed to impress the Brisbane
enthusiasts as the whole show. They
failed to see. or would not see, the right
counters Bronson sent in every time he
made Tommy fall into feint, and the
heavy kidney punches which nearly ended
Jones in the sixteenth round. In the sew
enteenth round Ray used a horseshoe
blow on Tommy and caught him on the
mouth. cutting it quite badly and just
missing the jaw 1t staggered the home
boy and he came near going UNDER but
the bell sounded and saved him.
1t was in the first round that Bronson
hurt his damaged hand. He started after
Jones with the tap of the gong, and
about the middle of the round he shot a
hard right for the jaw, but missed and
caught Tommy on the side of the head.
1t staggered Jones, but he weathered 1T
through the round. Bronson felt that he
could take no more chances with his
right hand, so he confined himself to
using his left and working under part
of his right on the kidneys when going
into clinch.
From the first to the twentieth there
was not round that could be given to
Jones, for Bronson took the aggressive
from the jump every time and never let
up. Tommy showed remarkable epdur-
ance and was shifty enough in going