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From the Halifax Chronicle....At Sydney Stadium before a crowd of some 15,000 Bill Doherty came within a knockdown of snatching the Australasian championship from Australia Billy Smith. Doherty gave away the first five rounds, evened up the sixth before giving Smith a shellacking in rounds 7 to 10. Smith came back enough to edge round 11 but Doherty steam-rolled the last round almost putting the champion through the ropes....In what was surely the biggest upset in an Australian ring this year Steve O'Donnell met the touring Frank Slavin at Melbourne and knocked him out in two rounds....World champion Peter Jackson continued his exhibition tour with 4 round bouts in Dublin and Paris....