BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 6

BOXING

The Greymouth Boxing Association have arranged for a professional boxing contest on Saturday night next at the Town Hall, Greymouth, between Reg. Trowern and Ted Morgan. The Hokitika train has been delayed till 10.0 p.m. to enable patrons to attend. . Morgan, the first New Zealander to win an Olympic title, was the winner of the welter-weight class at the last Olympic Games, and he scored a great victory, for one hand was injured before he started in the final. For some time he was one of the most prominent amateurs in New Zealand, having won twenty-nine bouts in thirty-one fights, and his boxing in Christchurch, when lie won the light-weight championship of New Zealand in 1925, was most impressive. Since lie took out his professional license some weeks ago, he has bad three fights. He knocked out Steve Hughes in five rounds, he knocked out P. Stone in ten rounds, and h,e. scored a technical knock-out in the eighth round against Bill Carey in Christchurch on Monday night. Reg. Trowern is a successful boxer, who is well known on the West Coast, as he fought Salvino Jam it o and Los Murray at Greymouth. Taught by Bill Palmer, the ex-Army and Navy champion ; middleweight, and by his father, who was an ex-Army gymnasium instructor at Southampton, Trowern is an aggressive and vigorous pugilist, and can be relied upon at all times to give an exhibition warranted to arouse enthusiasm. There is no exaggeration in stating that it is 'one of the best matches that could possibly have been arranged in New Zealand at the present time.