Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1922-05-19
Mccain Loses His
First Bout Staged
In Australia Ring

Billy McCann's first engagement in
Australia found the smuggling Akron
lightweight on the short end of a
20-round decision, according to The
Referee, a sporting magazine pub
lished at Sydney, Australia, copies of
which have just been received in this
city.
Harry Stone, the Australian light
weight champion, was McCann's first
opponent in a bout staged at sydney
the latter part of March.
Willie Hunefeld was disappoint-
ment in his first bout, losing a tame
contest to Nutty Fairhull. 8. third rate
Australian lightweight The Referee
does not spare words in a caustic
story on Hunifelds showing.
Local boxing fans will be inter-
ested in the following report on the
Mccain Stone bout as published in
the Australian paper;
When Harry Stone (9.11) met
Billy Mccain OLD at the Mel
bourne stadium on Saturday night,
before a $3.50 house, it was a case
of "a man of stone" endowed with
superb boxing skill, meeting a young
man of grit, apparently destined to
do things that will be writ large in
boxing annals of the next decade.
EARLY Stone got to work and made
Mccain smile with his tantalizing
light leads and uppercuts. But in
round three, while Harry was dane
ing round Mccain got him a rib
roaster, but Stone showed his con-
tempt for the punches by putting over
panto stuff. He side stepped, SHIN
mied, pivoted and made Mac miss
badly
Stones head and foot work had
Mccain tricked and he took most of
the powerful punches on his arms.
But Mccain. with a smile that moth
ing could shift, kept swinging for an
elusive jaw. At times Stone would
drop his defence and surprise Nc
Cam by standing and swapping
punches.
Although Stone was piling up the
points, Mccain was always trier
with his loaded right missing by
inches. Everytime they clinched Nc
Cam, who is a good loser, compli-
mented Stone on same tactic or 9TH
err. 1t was Homeric battle all the
time, but Billy's man-killing swings
We're all going over Harry's head or
being taken on his arms.
in one round Stone proved an
acrobatic comedian, for he dropped
his hands and crouched. Mccain
crowded in on top of him, and, like
lightning, Stone turned a Catharine
wheel and caught Mccain on the re-
bound, and Billy broke away too full
for words.
From the eleventh round to the
devils thirteenth, Stone demonstrat-
ed what a wonderful defensive boxer
he is. There was no clinching to
speak of, and they were fighting
with scrupulous fairness and good
humor.
The next three rounds saw Stone
take liberties. He started to hop
about. Mccain came to light in the
sixteenth round, forcing and punch
ing Stone all around the ring. This
was McCann's only decisive round.
but that he did not seriously incon-
venience the freak was exemplified
in the seventeenth round when
Stone challenged him with. Come
on, Billy, let it go!" and the pair
stood toe to toe and exchanged
punches to the end, and they grinned
at one another in the corners when
the respite came.
Stone then went on out pointing
Mccain TO the end. A remarkable
incident occurred on the ringing of
the final gong. The men were fight
ing like demons. and as the gong
sounded Billy landed his best punch
during the fight, a right swing which
momentarily checked Stone, who
then received the referees benedic-
ton. Verify it was a great fight,
although Stone never looked a loser,
bar accidents