FOUL HIT

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 6

FOUL HIT

• ■ ..- — -. — -♦- Pugilist's Street Display | COSTLYTUNCH (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) In Ashburton, Dave Terris holds i sway as one of the leading amateur pugilists of the town, but he had to come to Christchurch to learn that free hitting is confined by law to the roped arena. TN the few seasons he k has been interested m the fight game, T'erris x has cultivated the habit of hitting hard and often, a necessary quality m a fighter, but when he carried his fistic prowess into public circles the law took a harid. ■'•'-.- He visited Christchurch for a weekend recently, and, accompanied by two other young men, he took four girls, one of them only seven years old, for a drive. The party returned after eight o'clock m the evening, and because the brother of one of the girls remonstrated with Terris about keeping them away