FOUGHT A DRAW
LECKIE V. DONOVAN
MATCH FULL OF INTEREST
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N.,'2Bth December. After fifteen three-minute rounds, the featherweight contest at catch weights between Tommy Donovan, the Waitara featherweight champion, and Johnnie Leckie, Napier, resulted in a draw. The decision met; with the approval of the great majority "of the spectators. The. fight ; was staged in the Palmerston North Opera House before a large attendance, and although it was full of interest there was little clean hitting j Donovan being an awkward target, and taking every chance to'get-in close, where he did best; Leckie out-fought his man in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rounds to lead on points, but Donovan finished aggressively to make up the leeway. Mr. F. O'Neill refereed capably.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 154, 29 December 1930, Page 5
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125FOUGHT A DRAW Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 154, 29 December 1930, Page 5
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