BOXING.
Australian Press Assn.—United Service LONDON, August 29. At Clapton before 50,000 in a fifteen round flyweight bout for the championship of the world. Johnny Hill (Scotland) European champion, outpointed Nowsbuy Brown, of America. Teddy Baldock defeated Johnny Brown, the towel being thrown in in the second round. The Boxing Control Board announces it does not recognise the promoter’s claim to contest for the British bantamweight championship.
Johnny Curly in his first contest since his Australian .tour defeated the American, Tommy Shack, disqualified in tlie seventh round for hitting low. There was a record attendance for a British boxing meeting.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1928, Page 4
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