BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 253, 24 March 1914, Page 8

BOXING.

AUCKLAND EXHIBITION MATCHES. POLICE PERMIT CANCELLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Twelve months ago it was announced that for Exhibition time six big lioxing contests, each for £IOOO., would be promoted. The Boxing Association was not financially in a position to undertake a. programme so big, and it entered into a contract with a Mr. Doyle, who was to act as the Association's agent, to find purses and share with the Association. He transferred his agrement with the Association to a Mr. Mitchell. The latter paid Mr. Doyle £250, and committed himself to a further expenditure of £4OO in arranging, through Tommy Burns, for engagements with McCoy, Wells, Morey, Hegarty and Daniels. The New Zealand Boxing Council had been inclined at first to view with disfavor the contract entered into, but Mitchell saw Mr. McVilley, of that body, and pointed out that all the contests were to be absolutely controlled by the Northern Box j ing Association, and with that explanation Mr. McVilley had been satisfied, and the police permit for the fights had been granted. Advice has now been received that the police permit has been cancelled, and urgent representations on the subject are now being made to the authorities in Wellington by Mr. Mitchell and by the Association, which Bays it cannot understand why the cancellation has been ordered. Superintendent Kiely, when seen on the subject, said that when the permit was issued it was not known that the contract had been passed on from Doyle to others, and that several people were now concerned who were really interested in the proposed tourney from a money-making point of view. The cancellation of the permit, the superintendent added, had been ordered from Wellington.