BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1852, 11 September 1913, Page 9

BOXING.

SYDNEY TEAM ARRIVES HERE. EN ROUTE FOR DUNEDIN. : By tho Willochra, which arrived from Sydney yesterday morning, came the Now South Wales team of boxers who are to competo at tho Australasian amateur championship tournament at Dunedin on Monday and Tuesday, September 22 and 23! Tho team consists of tho following members:—J. King (bantam), F. Brownleo (feather), F. Lacey (light-weight), F. M'Quario (welterweight), and W. Duffy (middle-weight). It is without a heavy-weight representative. A good, man for this class had been selected in J. A. Masscy, of the Sydney University, but as ho had to sit for an examination shortly, ho could not see his way to undertako tho trip. Tho team is in charge of Mr. F. G. Underwood, tho secretary of tho S.vdnoy Sports Club, and a figure in amateur sport in the Harbour City. Mr. Underwood states that he has brought his team along a fow days in advance of tho meeting in order that they may bo given a clianco to become acclimatised and to surmount tho offects of the trip. They were, ho thought, a very good lot of boys, and ho anticipated that they had a very fair chunco of annexing top honours. Yestorday afternoon tho team witnessed tho New. Zealand-Wellington football match as guests of tho New Zealand Rugby Union. Tlioy went south by tho Wahino last evening. SINGULAR AFFAIR By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melboumo, Septombor 10. The English boxer Sullivan, who was to have met Carrio at the Stadium, telegraphed from St. ICilda a few hours before the contest should have started that ho had been compelled to leave Melbourne, and asking that a substitute be provided, promising to explain later. Attempts to locate Sullivan have failed. Substitutes filled the bill at tho Stadium. MR, R. L. BAKER'S CONFERENCE. Sydney, 'September 10. "Snowy" Bilker, the ox-amateur boxer and physical culturist, is convening a conference for October 3, to discuss matters likely to lend to the betterment of boxing, principally by tho adoption of weight limits for the various classes.