DECISIVE VICTORY
ROLLINSON’S SUCCESS STEVENS’ GAME FIGHT (P.A.) AUCKLAND. May 27. By one of the most decisive points margins registered here tor many years, Doug Rollinson, New Zealand light-heavyweight boxing champion, defeated the middleweight champion, Roy Stevens in a catch-weight contest. Rollinson scored consistently with hard, fast rights to the head and left and rights to the body, while Stevens appeared to find a counter to his opponent’s tactics. Stevens gave a very game display as lie took a prodigious amount of punishment, and was giving away 91b. in weight. The weights were announced as Rollinson 12st. ,21b. and Stevens list. 71b.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 2
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102DECISIVE VICTORY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 27 May 1947, Page 2
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