BOXING
HAMILTON AWARDED BOUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 26. Billy Hamilton, lightweight professional boxing champion of Victoria, made an auspicious first appearance in a New Zealand ring tonight, when he disposed of Clarrie Rayner, Marlborough, early in the second round of a contest scheduled for 15 rounds, at the Wellington Town Hall. No sooner had the second round opened than it was seen that Rayner was outclassed. Hamilton scored as he liked and sent Rayner to the canvas with a heavy right cross. On rising at the count of nine, the Marlborough man again went down under a fusillade of blows and this time stayed down, claiming that he had been hit low. Eventually Mr G. Broad announced that Rayner had been medically examined and that the doctors had found no traces of a foul. The contest <vas thereupon awarded to Hamilton.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 2
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