BOXING.
iIJSVIIALIAN ANP N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.
COLIN BELL V. HEENEY,
GISBORNE, March 17
Word has been received here that Colin Bell (Australia) beat Heeney (New Zealand) on points for the Australian heavy-weight boxing championship at Mackay, North Queensland.
DEMPSEY’S NEW TASK
NEW YORK, March 17. Edward (“Strangler”) Lewis, the world’s champion wrestler, today challenged Jack Dempsey for a mixed match. The challenge was made by a pronouncement that Lewis’s manager had deposited 5000 dollars as a guarantee tha’t he would meet Dempsey. Jack Kearns, manager for Jack Dempsey, to-night declared that Dempsey is ready to meet Lewis on whatever basis he suggests.
COMING FIGHT. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.ml PARIS, March 17. Crrpentier fights Willis in June.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1922, Page 2
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118BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1922, Page 2
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