St Andrews Sporting Cracker by Tom Walker Oct 24th 2006

Tommy Gilmour's St Andrews Sporting Club on the 23rd of October produced a top of the bill clash which can only be described as a “cracker”. The cognoscenti of the club were treated to a welterweight clash between Glasgow's Craig Dickson (10st-10lbs) and Sunderland's Martin Marshall. (10st-12lbs). The crowd gave both boxers an ovation at the end of the fight, this despite Marshall's corner having to call it off at the end of the fourth round of the scheduled six, when Marshall suffered an injury to his Adams apple. Up until that point, both young men had periods of dominancy which had the crowd in raptures with exciting toe-to-toe exchanges in middle of the ring. When the unfortunate stoppage did occur it could still have been anybody's fight, would that there had been television cameras to capture this superb match up. It is to be hoped that this bout can be rematched sometime in the future. Buckhaven's Willie Bilan (10st-3lbs) made his debut as a paid boxer when he beat Worcester's Steve Cooper (10st-7lbs) by 58-56 on referee Kenny Pringle's card. Afterwards, Cooper gave praise to the Fife youngster for his hard punching capability Jimmy Gilhaney (9st-3lb) of Newmains, beat Shrewsbury's Neil Marston (9st 1lb) by 58-56 in a fight that lost some of it's impetus after Gilhaney caught Marston in the first with a solid right hand to the chin. Thereafter, Marston back-pedalled or clinched most of the time. Gilhaney, will now contest the Scottish featherweight title at the St Andrew's on November 20th with an as yet un-named opponent.

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