BOXING.
• UREN AND VOLAIRE. At Wellington, on Thursday evening, the 15-rounti contest between Eugene Volaire, a French pugilist, and Havilch Uren, or Australia, ended in a draw. Tim Traccy was referee, and the Dominion states that the decision was received with quite enthusiastic disapproval of the crowd. Urea did most of the -leading, but Volaire was the more forceful boxer, and had the greatest reserve of strength. BASHAM DEFEATED BY LEWIS. London, June 9. Kid Lewis defeated Basham, at Oljimpia, for the welter championship ot Europe and a purse of £SOOO, The referee stopped the fight in the ninth round owing to Basham's weakness from loss of blood. Many nf the spectators clamored for the fight to Be stop-ped.—Aus.'-N.Z, Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19200612.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1920, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121BOXING. Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1920, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in