BOXING
PALMER V. O’MALLEY. fßy Telegraph —Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 7. Ambrose Palmer, the middleweight boxing champion of Australia, lived up to his nickname of “Tiger” at the Winter Show Stadium, to-night, when he gave Jack O’Malley, the heavyweight champion of the Commonwealth a boxing lesson. The contest went the ; full fifteen rounds, but there was only one man it it, and Palmer, boxing cleverly, won practically every '"round/’’ - Though only weighing list, lllb to O’Malley’s 12st 101 b, Palmer did most Of the leading, and early opened a gash | over O’Malley’e right eye, with a loft hook.- O’Malley w far too slow, It was a disappointing display for two Australian title-holders,
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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113BOXING Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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