BOXING.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 1

BOXING.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. YOLAIRE V. BLACKBURN. WELLINGTON. Oct. 29. A crowded house saw Eugene Yolaire 10st 31b beat Clarrie Blackburn. Hist ] Mbs on points to-night, after a close contest. The fighting, for the most part, was confined to close quarters, with very little between the boxers, hot Volniro was much quicker in the open, and lie scored with his right swing to the head. The decision "as popular. AIcCORAIACK BEATS ALcRAK. AY ELLINGTON. Oct. 30 To-night there was a heavyweight, contest hero which virtually decided the amateur championship of New Zealand. A. McCormack- (Ashburton) 1 he holder, defeated C. Mcßae (Wellington) after rather a dull contest. In the featherweight division, J. (lurry knocked out A. McArthur. AY. Brown (welter) knocked out J. Bradley. COOK HAS A AY IN. LONDON. Oct. 3D. At the National Sporting Club, in n fifteen round Heavy-weight bout, George Cook (Australia) outpointed Dave ArcGill (Belfast). N.Z. CONFERENCE. CENTRES REARRANGED. AY ELLINGTON, Oc t. 30. The Boxing Conference resolved there should he four centres for each Island, viz:—That Nelson, Marlborough, and Taranaki he put into Wellington, and the centres he:—North: AA ellington, Auckland, Hawke’s Bay and Gisbor.ie. South : Otago, Canterbury, Southland, and AYest Coast. ii was resolved that 21 per cent of professional purses, half the pr cits from amateur championships, Iht'.cfifths of the not profits of spoeiil i.m 1 - namenfi. and 1 per cent from the pio-i-i-ods of all contests shall he paid '« the Association. A motion that the total prize money for any professional contest not exceed C2OO was discussed. Koine of the smaller Associations suggested a reduction to CIoO, on the ground that they did not- think it fair for the bigger associations to outbid them. Mr lloenan reminded the Conference that, while a C 125 offer would he accepted, the boxer had in view bigger purses. The motion was carried. Air AlcElrea. moved that in all amateur contests the referee should officiate from outside the ring.—Tt was decided that; the referee may act from outside or inside. The Conference decided that the appeal Committee should he located in

Dunedin, and that the personnel should ho:—Alossrs B. S. Irwin, 11. H. S. White and Kilmartin, tin- present Council to carry on till next annual meeting.

LONDON NIGHT LIFE. LONDON, Aug. 10 ■There is more temptation for the average middle-class man in London than in anv city of the world which I have visited with the exception of Paris.” This is the opinion of Bishop James Cannon, of the Afethodist Episcopal Church (South) of the United States, now on 1 his twentieth visit to this country. "The niglu life of London,” lie said yesterday, 'aloes not for open vice compare with the conditions which prevailed during the war period, hut it is much worse than before the war. Another thing which impressed the bishop was the freedom with which women enter public-houses. Turning to his own country, the bishop said that .there is more open loose living there than before the war. This lie attributes largely to the demoralising effect of the French environment on the 2,000,000 young Americans during the war.