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Paul McQuarrie, the Southland boxer, is a member of the Trentham football team. He Is a hefty forward. At a boxing tournament held at Trenthem Camp recently, Private M. "W. Baldwin, A Cojnpany. won m the light-weight event. Private Baldwin is a well-known Invercargill boxer, and has won several championship events. Fred Dyer, "The Australian boxer," recently appointed a boxing instructor m the United States Army, will be stationed at Camp Grant to the position, made..vacant by the reducing to the ■ ranks of Danny Goodman, of Chicago, says a Yankee exchange. Fred Dyer is a Welshman. Johnny Kilbane, of Cleveland, featherweight boxing champion, ' who has had charge of boxing Instruction *at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, 0., has been placed m general charge of boxing instruction m military camps all over the country. — American news item. The Sydney Hippodrome people have planned to bring Vince Blackburn and Sid Godfrey together for the Australian 9st (feather) title m the very near future. There are persons who think Godfrey cannot make the -weight. We shall see. Evidently he knows he can, else he would never have consented to adhere to that condition. Rather might the champion

have fenced the suggestion of a match until he could do so no longer. Every branch of British sport is represented m casualty lists published In England and Issued from the Western front. Jimmy Esson, the famous heavyweight wrestler, who was captured, has died of wounds In Germany. Esson attained the' rank of sergeant-major. He won) tho heavy-weight competition m the catch-aa-catch-can tourney held at the Alhambra, London, m 1908, defeating the Jap, Maida Yamato, m the final by two straight falls. Though Harry Raff showed Improved form, power and better staying compared with hla display against Al. King a week or two before, he did not last out his battle with Vince Blackburn well enough to succeed against that tough little package of pugilistic material, says a Sydney writer. Throughout the first four rounds Raff held an undoubted lead, thanks to the clever use of a left which he Jabbed to the face and hooked to the Jaw m a manner that won bursts of applause. The fifth round brought a change. Blackburn would not be denied. He kept dashing m and operating with constancy and persistency that Raff was unable to respond to. an quickly and vigorously as In the earlier rounds. • Tlie sixth was nicely Blackburn's, and the eighth and ninth were very much his. He also won the tenth well. Dave Smith made no mistake, m declaring for Blackburn. The boxer'a weights were: Blackburn, 8.7: Raff, 9.2.