LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
NICOL- DEFEATS SULLIVAN
FAST HASTINGS BOUT.
(By Telegraph —Press Association.) HASTINGS, June 12. In a good fast professional contest for the New Zealand lightweight boxing championship Ray Nicol, 12st ilb, Invercargill, retained his title at Hastings to-night by defeating Billy Sullivan, 12st 6 i-lb, Hastings on points. The champion shaded his opponent ill the majority of the 15 rounds, Sullivan tiring badly from the tenth round.
LOWE DEFEATS CHAMPION
MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE BOUT.
DUNEDIN, June 12. Bert Lowe (challenger) knocked out George Mac Ewan, Invercargill (holder in the fourteenth round of a 15-round bout for the middleweight boxing title to-night. , r ~ A large crowd witnessed one of ttio most thrilling bouts seen locally A feature was the game showing by MacJiiwan, who was beaten badly ui practically every round and fought tlie finaL four almost out on his feet In a ten-round preliminary between Charlie Bucklev (Dunedin) and Dave Richardson (TimaruX, Buckley won on a technical knock-out in the ninth round.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 13 June 1933, Page 3
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