The Archive · 1940

Crowd Excited

louis came back strongly in the next two rounds. He was watchful, but he put in hard, well.timed blows. Godoy, however, refused tu be stopped. He came after his foe, crouching and bobbing, making himself an elusive target. Louis in these two rounds caught his man with several staggering blows, but Godoy did not reel, although Louis took the two rounds In a thundering eighth round that had the fans im a frenzy, Godoy unleashed his best blows. He was a charging, fighting boxer that shock off blows without feeling them and in return put in terrific thuds. He completely outboxed and outhit Louis in this action-packed round to win it by a wide margin.

The Chilean followed up his rally in the ninth, battling Louis in several furious flurries to a standstill to force a drawn round. He also split the tenth.

Godoy continued his whirlwind tactics in the twelfth, charging Louis and lashing out with a series of left hooks that were dangerous but which did not land squarely. Louis tried to halt the rushes, but then thought better of it and decided to shuffle out of the flailing arms of his rival. Godoy won the round, down to 4-3.

Within one minute Novgorodoff countered a grand one, sending the leather into the top corner before Woodley could make any attempt to stop it. The goalie stopped a hard one from Cochran a few minutes later, but was badly deceived by Leriou's high lob. The ball took a bonne? and went into the net over the keeper's head for a 6-3 margin.

Gilchrist, the 16-year old Schoolboy who played a good game on the right flank, was indirectly responsible for the seventh goal gained by Kidby. He dribbled past Shute and passed to Kidby for the latter to take an easy rhot. In the 37th minute Cochran beat the opposition, catching the Police defence spread-edgied, and scored from point-blank range in spite of "Woodley's: effort to stop it.

Three minutes before the end Bader netted the last goal from a centre from Roliz. The scorer beat Schneirson with a grass-cutter. One minute before the final whistle Kidby hit the cross-bar with a powerful long shot. vod tw, Leriow, Coro, Gilchrist, LL—Schneirson, Logan, Katemo-KidBy, Cochran, Passikides, Novgorodoff. POLICE;—Westwood, Sts coe

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