RECENT BOXING BOUT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 6

RECENT BOXING BOUT

SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS GANZON ASKS FOR NEW INQUIRY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Sensational allegations connected with the Ganzon-Hamilton professional fight staged in Wellington on June 30, are contained in a statement of defence sent by D. Ganzon to the secretary of the Boxing Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association, Mr G. P. Aldridge. In a further statement to the president and executive of the Christchurch Boxing Association, Ganzon said he signed a statement in the office of Mr Hoggett, acting-chairman of the New Zealand Boxing Association, in Wellington, on the day after the Hamilton fight, admitting that the fight on his part was not genuine. After the Ganzon-Hamilton fight, the purse was held up, and an inquiry was started into allegations that Ganzon had “laid down.”. On August 3, Ganzon sent a five-page statement of defence to the secretary of the New Zealand Boxing Council in which series of sensational allegations are made. Ganzon aske£ that he be forwarded d. verbatim report of. the Wellington Boxing Association’s two inquiries, for the following reasons: “That as now they have passed judgment upon me, I should be given an opportunity of refuting any or part of such evidence on which they have based their resolution, and so prove to you that such resolution was unjust.” Ganzon then alleges that he was to receive £5O win, lose or draw, dh the understanding that at the beginning of the seventh round he was to be counted out. Ganzon claims that he was counted out, but was at no stage,unconscious. Ganzon asked that in fairness to himself the recommendations and decisions of the Wellington Boxing Association be discarded, and that a full and separate inquiry be instituted by the Boxing Council.