Sporting Digest: Boxing

ROBERT McCRACKEN, the British light-middleweight champion, scored a trouble-free 21st straight victory at London's York Hall last night. There was no hint of the crowd violence which marred his previous fight at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre a month ago as McCracken stopped Bristol's Dean Cooper in the fourth round of a non-title bout.

PROFESSIONAL PROMOTION (York Hall, Bethnal Green): 6-rd super-featherweight: Y Retta (Canning Town) bt C Jickells (Brigg) pts. 6-rd light-middleweight: N Thurbin (Clayhall) bt B McDougall (Birmingham) rsf 6th. 6-rd lightweight: C Dunne (Holloway) bt J Phelan (Hull) pts. 6-rd light-middleweight: S McNess (Bethnal Green) drew with H Dhami (Gravesend). 10-rd light-middleweight: R McCracken (Birmingham) bt D Cooper (Bristol) rsf 4th; 8-rd light-welterweight: J Rowland (West Ham) bt P Found (Hereford) rsf 4th; 6-rd light-heavyweight: M Wright (Stevenage) bt T Robinson (Grimsby) ko 1st.