The Archive · 1930

Lonsdale Belts Won Outright

London, May 22.

At Olympia this evening:—Charley Smith, of Deptford, in a fifteen-round heavy-weight contest sairist Donald Shortland, received the derision on points.

In a fifteen-round contest for the British Middle-weight Championship, Len Harvey, the holder, deted Steve McCall, of Glasgow. The referee stopped the fight in the 9th round. Len Harvey thus wins 2 Lonsdale Belt outright.

In a fifteen-round contest for the British Feather-weight Chamyionship, Johnny Cuthbert received the verdict, on points, against Dom Volante and thus won the Featherweight Lonsdale Belt outright. Phot Tu the Bantam weights, Dick Corbett, of Bethnal Green, beat Willie Smith, of South Africa, on addi points in a contest which went the Spor and Fall teen rounds.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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