BOXING TOURNEY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20908, 13 September 1939, Page 9

BOXING TOURNEY

NEW ZEALAND TITLEB DETAILS OP BADLY BOUNDS (By Telegrapn. — press Association) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday The New Zealand boxing championships opened tonight. Details of the early rounds were:— Flyweight.—L. Larsen (Wellington) heat E. Foote (Christchurch) on a technical knock-out; A. Cameron (Rakaia) beat F. Brown (Southland) on points. . Featherweight. —R. Davis (Waipukurau) beat M. Hunter (Oarnaru) on points; Pennington (Auckland) beat N. ‘Blake (Christchurch) on a technical knock-out; W. Brown beat J Parker on points; T. Batty (Gisborne) beat W. Clark (Greymouth) on a technical knock-out; G. Thomas (Taranaki) beat A. Jones (Rakaia) on —T. Dunn (Hutt Valley) heat C. Beal (Hawke’s Bay) on a technical knock-out; J. Musson (Ashburton) beat J. ‘Ramsay (Otago) on points. Welterweight.—D. Heeney (•Gisborne) beat D. McKenzie (Rakaia) on points. Middleweight.—R. Tonks (Ashburton) beat H. Gandy (Taranaki) on a knock-out. Light-heavyweight. —B. Withell (Ashburton) beat D. Mullett (Wellington) on points. Bantamweight.—T. Hoggarth (Greymouth) beat N. Leckie (Otago) on a knock-out; L. Salmon (Southland) beat B. Maddern (Greymouth) on a technical knock-out; 'II. Foote (Wellington) beat-C. Hutchinson (Wuipukui\ui) on a technical knock-out. GREATER KEENNESS URGED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday The annual conference of delegates of the Dominion Boxing Association opened today, thirty delegates attending. Mr A. 11. Courtis was in the chair. The deputy-mayor extended a welcome and concurred in Uie view that

■sporting fixtures should be carried on in a period like the present. The president, in an address, referred to European affairs. He said there were tuo many associations more or less dormant, and suggested more keenness being shown in the coining year, as fit and trained men might be required to defend their rights in the near future.