BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 17

BOXING.

XECKIE'S PROGRAMME.

TO SETTLE IN NAPIER.

(By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") NAPIER, this day. What is being billed as "the battle of the century," the forthcoming bout between "Fighting" Johnny Leckie, of New Zealand, and Billie Grime, of Australia, has now been fixed for December 7 at Napier. ' The Maoriland champion is to take up residence shortly in Hawke's Bay's seaside capital, where he has accepted a position, and will go into strict training for his bout with the Commonwealth triple champion. Leckie was recently ordered a spell by his medico, but he has resumed work again in Bunedin and reckons to repeat his Australian triumph over the formidable Grime. There is rare excitement over the scrap, and the enterprising Napier Association, the promoting body, has received requests for reserved seats from all parts of the country, including Christchurch and Auckland. Leckie intends to open a school in Napier, and after his bout with Grime, efforts will probably be made to match him with "Terrible Tommy" Donovan, the Waitara fireman, or Pete Sarron, the hardhitting American who is to come over here shortly. At the present time Leckie's wife, whom he first met in Napier when boxing in the national amateur championship tourney in 1926, is an inmate of a private hospital in Dunedin and the date of his departure for Napier will be governed by the progress of her recovery.