BOXING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 4

BOXING

AUSTRALIAN LIGHT-WEIGHT KNOCKED OUT. By Telegraph—Press Aeeociation-Oopj-riglit ■ Vancouver, June 23. At St. Louis, Frank Calkhan, of Brooklyn, knocked out Jack Reed, the Australian light-weight, in the fifth round of a scheduled eight-round fight.

Trooper William Thomas Huxford (Canterbury Mounted), killed in action on May 30, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Huxford, of Milford Lagoon Road, Temuka, and late of the Tokarahi Estate, North Otago. Trooper Huxford was barely twenty years of age, having been born on June 28, 1895. He was educated at the Duntroon School. Ho was one of the first to volunteer for active service, and left with the Main Expeditionary Force. He was a fast and olever runner, and footballer, and won two events at the Temuka Easter sports of last year. He was also a good worker, and assisted his father on his farm. He was of a quiet and unassuming disposition, and well liked by all with whom he came in -contact. An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., concermg the death of a newly-born child which was found dead in a house in Cambridge Avenue on the Saturday before last. A verdict was returned that the child was stillborn.