SORRY TO LEAVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 7

SORRY TO LEAVE.

PRINCE AT BOXING MATCH. ENTHUSIASM EVERYWHERE. CAPETOWN, May 20. When leaving Port Alfred, the Princo thanked the golf committee lor the excellent games and for the freedom from publicity he had enjoyed. On reaching Graliamstown he hurriedly dined, and then witnessed the bantamweight contest between Cyril Kay, the Australian champion, and .Jack tllmore, the former South Airican champion. He shook hands with both. Ellmore delivered rapid, quick-firo blows, which the Australian received solidly and calmly. The Prince brushed the suggestion aside that he should leave when the train was due, but he eventually hud no other alternative. The fight was fair and clean, with the Prince the most interested spectator. Several professors and a large number of ladies were present. Informal welcomes at several villages were most spontaneous. ''How tired he looks," commented an old lady at Bedford, aftor presenting him with a bunch of violets. An old man clung to his arm to tell him how his grandfather waa one of Napoleon's guard at St. Helena. The Prince picked out an old Boer, whose eyes gleamed with pleasure. At Fort Beaufort a triumphal arch had been erected, although the Prince was only stopping there for a few minutes. The Prince now realises the kind of life that is lived in the -wide spaces and in isolated homes.