BOXING.
HICENEY’S FIGHT. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) LONDON, Jan. 15. The newspapers hail Keeney’s great moral victory and declare that despite Scott’s failure, Mooney’s grit gives British boxing a chance of supplying a lit competitor for Tiimiey. Ileeiiev in a special cable to the “ i.veiling News” sa.vs: “ I feel I did not do illy best. I did not get going until the last few rounds. I am sorr\ I did not win, because if I hail won. I intended to spend a holiday in New Zealand and visit my mother whom I have not seen for four years.”
HUENFY-SfIARKEY FIGHT. GISBORNE. Jan. Id. The '‘Chicago Tribune's” report of the Heeney light was received by O'Meara on the wireless, shows that Rickard estimates the attendance at 20,000. The gross receipts were slightly over two hundred thousand dollars. There was not an empty seat visible from the ringside when the bout started. Jack Denny was referee and George Kelly and George Patrick umpires.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1928, Page 3
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161BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1928, Page 3
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