DECISIVE WIN FOR ROLLINSON OVER STEVENS.
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By Telegraph —
AUCKLAND, May 26. By one of the most decisive points margins registered here for many years Doug Rollinson, New Zealand light heav_yweight boxing champion, defeated the middleweight champion, Roy Stevens, in a cateh-weight contest. Rollinson scored consistently with hard fast rights to the head and lefts and rights to the body while Stevens appeared unable to find a counter to his opponent's tacties. Stevens gave a very game display as he took a prodigious amount of punishment and was giving awav 91bs in weight. The weights were announced as -Rollinson 12st 21bs, Stevens 11st 71bs.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 May 1947, Page 7
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