BOXING.
The Wainirapa Centre of the* Boxing Association, is to be congratulated upon the excellent toxurnoanent provided in Masterton last night. The aiiendlaiioe at the Town 'Hafll demonswated • concl>usivell|y- titoat.. 4&e.-Eponb. numbers among its patrons some of th&, most influetnltial and iirbeffligent nJuetoberfl' of the # oommainity.. Thte art, •ofi boxing appears to have ta&eii a hold of .There is aibptut to the sympathy average Britisher. It/is; 'besides., clean and' healthy a® a sport, and, so kaig aS the profeisisdionail element ifi kept ou/t, it will remain so. . The danger in most of our sports lies in,the tendency to create tihe miercenary instinct. Fortunately, in amateur boxing this dbes not appear.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10508, 21 December 1911, Page 4
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110BOXING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10508, 21 December 1911, Page 4
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