"SNOWY" CLARKE
COMING TO WELLINGTON
: One ■; of . the disappointments experienced by ths Wellington Boxing Association last year was ..when "Snowy" Clarke, the brilliant .Western Australian featherweight/injured a hand just as he was due to leave fo? a. series! of bouts here. The .association,: however, has not abandoned its proposal to import Clarke, the-money for whose passage is waiting in Sydney/1 . ' ■"'>■ Negotiations with 'the
have been reopened,' and it is expected'that he, will .be.coming over.'in the.near future." -i'^-v' ,■ •; ~•■'. : "
Clarke's opponents have not yet been selected, but those in the running include" "Young" Glido, the Filipino, who has been beaten'only once in the Dominion, Clarrie Rayner, and Jack Jar Vis.
The.local'association, incidentally, is going to spare no effort ■to promote contests at regular .intervals during the season, and has severaVboxers in;view.
The annual.meeting of Uie Mirainar Boxing Club will be held in the club'tj gymnasium .next Thursday.. «
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 22
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