BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 2

BOXING.

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•Bull Nibholls lias, .he&x, writing to the Wellington Boxing Association with a view to being matched with Tim, Tracy. Bull sends along his credentials, which make oat that ,. "ae has scored m nine contests m Tasmania, and with varying success mi n New South Wales. He says the purse is not so much an inducement a£ the trip would be

The Canterbury Boxing Association is fixing up matters lor a lightweight professional championship contest m Ohristch'irch m May, The Council has agreed that the winner shall be entitled to call himself the light-weight ; champion , of New Zealand. The local Boxing Association does not see, eye tq eye, with .the southerners, m this respect, and it not unreasonably asks, "Where does Hock Keys come- in ■?*' ths Sydneyi<te having acquired the ti^le. when he defeated Tim Tracy some eighteen months ago. The purse put up by Tommy Robson and his friends is not likely to induce boxers of Key's standard to cross the Tasmam

Bill Murphy, who was recently outed by Tim Tracy, up Taranaki way last w.eek, made several i pressing requests to tho local Boxing As* sociation to get Tim and himself hitched on m Wellington. After making enquiries the local officials were satisfied that Murphy was not 14 classy " enough for this quarter, and the happening at Stratford proved the wisdom of their action.

It is just possible that the Wellington Association will fix up matr ters for a meeting between Dick Guillen and Hock Keys., Cullen, who passed through Auckland by. the last incoming 'Frisco steamer, put Hock»§ lights out m the States last yea». He is no stranger to Aus.traUfc Cullen wrote to the local Aspocia*

fcion from America, asking it if it could taring about a contest between himself and Keys, but owing to the dislocated .'Frisco service the letter did riot reach secretary Coffey until Cullen was within a couple of. days' sea journey from Australia. Secretary Keenan of the Northern Boxing Association (Auckland) has been transferred to Wellington. It. is only .&' few' weeks ago that- Dick got ensnared m the matrimonial net. By. .arrangement with . the New Zealand Boxing" Council,, the Australasian Amateur Boxing Championships will eventuate m Wellington this year. The , Wellington Association, under whose auspices it will be held, has secured the Opera House on September 10th for the occasion. The arrangement between the parties to jjhe agreement, makes it compulsory , for the Australasian gathering to take place some time m September. •"' In reply to "Query".. I have to state that the' allegations made by a correspondent recently that Hock Key's share of the purse on the occasion of his defeat of, Tracv m Wellington was bnlv £35 is absolutely incorrect. The assertion was on a par with .other niisstatenients made by the coffesponident m question. Key's received £50 m addition to which his passage money- from and to Sydney, hotel expenses, etc.; were defrayed by the Association. Th'e Canterbury Boxing Association went/ .the/ Whole 4*or a- year or so black" for the clean- and genteel amateur ticket! Our southern friends are now alive 'to the fact that the " nro " is the only drawing ticket, and they are catering all they know now for 'this much\ abused individual. So ;it is with the Otago Association, which finds that the bawbees only roll m when a 'professional bout Hs under way. The canny 11 Scotties '■ were not enthusiastic over the; amateur " stiffs ' ' m their Safabyterian city. At the finish of his recent battle, frith Bob Turner, Hock Keys made a little speech m, which lie said that if he .ever foußh't a s.chleinter m Australia- had luck would pursue him lor the rest, of his life, t