By Brady
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Kitione Lave Beaten
Schmidt Wins Two Bouts
rONGAN heavy-weight boxer, Kitione Lave, was beaten by Australian champion Ken Brady i the seventh round of a hard ght at Melbourne, on September 24.
This was the second time Lave as lost to the more experienced rady—his second defeat in a pro jssional career of 29 bouts.
Until the end of the fifth round
th fighters appeared fairly evenly itched. Lave impressed with his st punching and neat blocking, s sharp right-crosses worried ady consistently. But Brady be me increasingly determined after ing hurt in the third round. By b end of the sixth had taken 3 lead on points, rhe seventh round had not been progress for more than a minute ten a series of hard blows to the ad made Lave an open target for iat was to follow. The 19-year [ Tongan was hammered remorse ;sly until he staggered to the g centre with his hands by his e, completely defenceless. Before ady could attack, the referee led a halt and declared Brady ; winner by a tko. t w T as disclosed later that Lave i broken his hand in three places the second round.
Veights were: Ken Brady, 14.12; ;ione Lave, 13.91. toon after his defeat by Brady. ve received a cabled invitation m English promoter Bruce •odcock to fight at Doncaster ler his management.
VMOAN heavy-weight boxer, Fossi. Schmidt, who so far has i 50 fights (none of which has te more than three rounds), cap ed useful publicity in Sydney ing September. i-ained by expert handler Bill Connell, the rapidly improving loan floored two opponents with the prescribed time. One aspir publist with the mighty name
of Jack Dempsey lasted two rounds and the other, Harold Davis, was knocked out in the third.
Samoan light-weight, Jimmy Ripley, withdrew from all fights when he was found to be suffering from appendicitis.
Talent Scout
Australian Boxing Club director (Mr. Art Mawson) left for Samoa and Tonga recently on a talent search. He hoped to sign up six winners of the Pacific champion ships, including two heavy-weights for fights with Kitione Lave and Fossi Schmidt. Following the an nouncement of his intended trip, Islands officials were besieged with entries for the Pacific champion ships.
Kitione Lave.