WOMEN'S BOXING MATCH.

Shannon News, 4 December 1923, Page 4

WOMEN'S BOXING MATCH.

MANY PROTESTS. Public opinion in Adelaide has been shocked by the proposal to hold a women's boxing match at. Unley Stadium. Protests- are made by boxing referees and doctors condemning the idea. "Repugnant" and " "disgusting" are some of the terms applied. "It may be all right for girls to have private boxing lessons," said a woman doctor, "but public exhibitions like this are absolutely opposed to women's idea of progress."

Mrs. Hunter, one of the women concerned, denies the statement that she issued a challenge to box in Adelaide. She says that Miss Menzies, of Sydney, has always been in training, and that she would not box her without preparation. "I don't intend to box on Thursday week; but I would not like the public to think I am breaking faith," she declares. "This is the outcome of a challenge by an American girl to box any woman in Australia. I am quite willing to go to Sydney and box Miss Menzies for the ladies' championship of Australia, provided I have six weeks in which to train."

Mr Lean, manager of the Melbourne Stadium, deprecates any such contest as being unwomanly. He, for one, would not like to stage it.