WELLINGTON BOXING ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 11

WELLINGTON BOXING ASSOCIATION

The' Management Committ'eo of the Wel- ' lington! 'Boxing: .'Association; mc.t last night, 'Mr. I v The/ New..Plymouth-, Boxing; Association wrote; stating that, at, its ... -v-annuaT.. meeting,; .'it' was decided : to; : write - the i centre • regarding- alteration: of district, so as to take in all/iaranaki provmco, as the. various clubs in the province were now understood !'. to bo: defunct. . Application for entry, forms for "tho.'ensuinp cnampipn'ship's was ; also.made. Members; in discussing the tor, asserted that' the' .associationS\was' not affiliated to the N.Z.B.A. , It: wasijdecided to" reply , that . entries -from 1 any bona-fido amatour would, bo received,.but. that,tho centro :• • could not 'recognisp. the . association .;:.' m j. The s Manawatu Association's- tourney-pro-gramme on June 29 was It was :- ; as'underTim Tracey v. Jack . Griffin, for purse of £50; ,W..D. Shields v. A. Treweek; ■ Dawson v. Colo; and -an exhibition-spar between Jim Griffin (Sydney} and C. Richard- ' son. ."Mr. Nightingale,* Napieivintimated'that ,v; it'was desired "to form an' association; there,';. i;:]:-/and'.,-'Mbrmati6i'-'-'.i>n'-the.-..iBubj^t'. I was.':''r6-; quired; Jt was deoided -to defer consideration until, the result of the council's decision 'i : ; regarding centre v government, was: knowii; • C. Lansdown : asked , for a match with a* ' featherweight,. : OHe : had,, he said, earned a . good He was prepared to back himself-for a side -wager and/ tho best puree. :V:lt-was that: .the;, applicant should be "tried out." , 1

• t :V:' : 'Tbe.- Hawk'o'si'Bay.V Association V submit programme for its next tourneyifor approval , It -.was as) followsßort'- Murphv v. Jack .tor. /; ; pursß f^of )].£so:;.;; 3?.- .' Butohei; v.i; for.', medal ; :atld ." (probablyV ' exlii- :, bition spar;.between Jim Batchelor. ; The: association also, stated that it; had ir arranged:: h'. . ney, ,and;Tim,Tracey, for a purse of £50, for ■ -July 28. It was resolved to- approve tho . prolamines;: ■ . •• " 'I'-'S/i -■ B. Kane, of H.M.S.. Pioneer, -who fotipht v Smith, of .Auckland,' -for' the * middle-weight championship of; Now-Zealand,-asked for a matcn ;mth ;a 'vlfc . tinned that a reply had beon sent v to the ; -effect that arranßeiieiits - could not ; be made in the time available.