DUNEDIN HOLDS TRUMP CARD IN NEW ZEALAND BOXING
All eyes in New Zealand boxing f for New Zealand boxers—Heeney in to-day are turned to Dunedin where ! America, McDonald and Purdy in Aus-
young John Leckie holds the stage as the greatest draw-
ing card in New Zealand pugilism to-day. Within
tralia, and Leckie at home. The last-named may yet
Lcccmc the greatest of them all. Leckie’s record is a wonderful H one. He has never
a year, the Otago Boxing Association has leapt from obscurity to the position of the premier promoting body of Maori land, thanks to Leckie. |j It has not rested on its oars for all that. |j Real enterprise was shown in dispatching Mr. Jack Ki (martin to Sydney to secure opponents for the
been beaten as a pro- ?| fecsional. Nine out |l cf 12 fights he has |§ won by the knock- || out »*oute, the only §1 feather - weights to 11 stay with him being g the two Austrail llans, Gillespie and m N elton, and his ® stable-mate, Tommy * Griffiths. Inside 12 months he has collected
trump card it holds in Leckie. Clever, fast and with a punch like a kicking mule, Johnny
about f 1,000 in stake money. Leckie is only 21, but so far he has
Leckie bids fair to take the road that Fitzsimmons
carried everything before him. He is a mem-
and Murphy trod to success in the I long ago. It has been a boom year |
I ber of what is perhaps the most I famous boxing family in New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 393, 29 June 1928, Page 10
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