BOXING NOTES
Move. Into Camp + Henry Did His Job + Personal Items Sloane Training Again EW ZEALAND _iight-weight champion Jack. Jarvis has exchanged the gloves for the rifle. He is at present in camp at Trentham with the Second Echelon. * % % Syd Sloane is back in training with hopes of obtaining more fights in New Zealand. Like Mudgway and Pascoe, he is at present "on the job" at Playland, . * * " Dynamite " Henry Armstrong is still handing out sleeping draughts. Recently he accounted for H. Montanez by the
short cut route, in what was called a "slashing affray." Henry must have been annoyed at the Boxing Commission's hints that he was being too careful of his title. * * * Ex-light-heavyweight champion Harold Reeve, well known throughout the Dominion, is another boxer in the Forces, Until recently he was living in the Manawatu district. The boxers are certainly well represented in camp. % * ¥ The Council Secretary, George Aldridge, is tripping to Australia this month for a holiday. * + . Frank O'Neill, ex-light-weight champion of New Zealand, and now a mine owner at Runanga, was a visitor to Wellington for the races. He wears well, and still looked fit enough for the ring.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 33, 9 February 1940, Page 33
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