BOXING.
AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. CAlil.K ABSOCIAT/OX. WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP. PARTICULARS OP CONTESTANTS. __ ■»f (Received this day at 10. Id a.m.) NEW YORK. June 19. Willi the championship bout but Iwo weeks oil'. Dempsey and Gibbons are in serious i: .-lining, the briiicr at Great Falls, and the latter at Shelby Montana. According to newspaper observers the tight will be no one-sided affair. Gibbons is in ib.e pink of condition, while Dempsey is regarded as lacking hi his old time form. It is only within the Li-t few days that the champion has taken any serious interest in his training, his trainers having been ('.lived to allow him a holiday on several occasions in order to take on
"eight. Evidently the reports concerning Gilibon.s’ condition have caused Dempsev some worry as he has suddenly put on a spurt.
The men will probably enter the ring with little difference in weight. The scene of the fight is somewhat extraordinary. Shelby being a. small frontier town full of bars, gambling houses and dance balls, which were operating in full swing until the State authorities stepped in and closed them iqi.
As usual the fight characters have began to reach the town.
The huge wooden Stadium where the fight will take place has been almost completed. Tickets are reported to be selling well.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 3
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218BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 3
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