BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 327, 14 June 1911, Page 7

BOXING

TO-MORROW NIGHT'S TOURNAMENT. The prospects.that the boxing tournament to be held in the Theatre Royal tp-morrow evening will be a really ttnc one are decidedly good. The New Plymouth Boxing Association is making the tournament even a better one than that which the association held in the Drill Hall last year. The entries in the novice competition are so good that the committee estimates that, with the special matches which have been arranged, there will be not less than a dozen really pood contests; in all probability there will be several more.

The "draw" for the first rounds in the novice competitions resulted as follows: Class 1 (light-weight): —Zimmerman (Kgmont Village) v. Malone (Okato); Franeis (New Plymouth) v. Quickenden (Pungarehu); Morey (New Plymouth) v. Foley (Piiniwhakau). Class 2 (heavyweight):—O'Neill (New Plymouth) v. Jones (Eltham); Dewar (New Plymouth) v. W. Rothery (Rahotu); Carey (Okato) v. Wing Ivee (Miamrst). The association has been advised by the Northern Boxing Association that

.Cole and OlscrJ the two Auckland amateurs . who liave been matched with f Hawkins and Maxwell respectively, are in steady training, and will arrive in frond time fer t-V> tournament. Hawkins and Maxwell, too, are in the pink of condition. The other local lijds arc also in good training, and with every man confident of sucoess there should be good battles for supremacy. The bouts in the novice competitions will be three three-minute rounds in the preliminaries and lour rounds in the finals. In the special matches each contest will bo of six three-minute rounds. Competitors are reminded that they must lie at the Theatre Royal before 7 p.m. on Thursday, for weighing and medical examination. Neck to l;nee costumes of dark material must be worn, in accordance with the New Zealand

Boxing Council's rules, under which the tournament is being conducted. On Monday night at the Pantechnicon, some excellent displays of scientific boxing. were given, the New Plymouth Boxing Association holding another of its "open nights." There were some two hundred spectators. Exhibition spars were given as follow:—Whitakcr v. O'Neill; Hnwkim v. Francis (Fitzroy); \Y. Francis v. Lingdon; Dewar v. Lovegrove; and Goss v. Mulloy, two High School pupils, who boxed a very attractive bout.. Pfnnkuch, linker, and Mullov gave exhibitions of wrestling. The great interest displayed by the public augured well for the sin-cess of the association's tournament in the Tlioatrc Royal tomorrow evening.