PROGRAMME ALTERED
Glengarry Unable to Fight on Friday SPECIAL 1 5-ROUND BOUT Owing to one.of the ^our principals in the proposed dbuble-bill bo'xing' programiie set- down for the Hastings Municipal ■ Thcatre next - -Friday night having contracted influenza it has been necessary to somewhat alter . the. pfogramme. Arrangements have. .been made to turn the. Ralph Aitken v. AUen PaTker contest into a 15-roiind light and this will be the only proiossi'onal contest on the programme. ' The associatipn regrets the lastminute chahge, but it was oceasioncd by a telegraph message from tbe manager of Don ■ Glengarry intimating. that his charge had -the '.flu and woiSd' be unable to meet Sid Smitb as arranged. EffOrts f ailed to find a substitute for Glengarry, or even, another bdut, owing to the short notice. However, in extending the 'lightweighf bout between Aitken and Parker, little " merit has been detracted from tbe attraction originally ' offered for the reason that both Aitken aud Parlcer are capable of providing a first-class contest, and oue " that will have a big appeal. Both men are in good" trim, each having just reccntly taken- part in bouts and each are duc for further engagements in the hear future. In addition there will be another of the popnlar "blood and thunder" interteams "contests for the Campbell Cup, tbe contesfing teams being Te Aute. Coll-ege and Waimarama, and they will engage in 10 one.-minute rounds of highly excitiug and thrilling scraiiping. This, liowever, does not \complcto the programme, for spccial care . has been taken to ensure that the amateur preliminary bouts will be out of the usual l'un, and four excellent matchings have been effected. ' . " ' Altogether it as felt that despite the absence of the second professional contest, 'Friday night 's boxing attraction will be a very generous bill of fare and do much to * bring about the desired offect of re-establishing :the popularity of boxing in" : this " district. . • The box plan is no/w opeh'-at Donovan's" tobacconist salpon*,' and arrangements liaye been mado *for'a b'us'to be available after the contest for1 patron? from Napier. '• * >
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 6
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