BOXING IN OTAGO.
LECKIE WISHES TO COME BACK
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. Johnny Leckie, feather-weight champion, is anxious to light in his home town (Duriedin) again, and has written to a member of the Otago Boxing Association that he wants one opportunity of proving to Dunedin boxing followers ho is not yet a spent force. After Johnny's return from Australia ho and 1 his old trainer, Archie Leckie, dissolved forces, but Johnny states now he is prepared to place himself once more under charge of Archie. If given a chance, Johnny says he will come to Dunedin three weeks before he fights, and place himself under Archie. Word has been received in Dunedin that Harry Hughes, of Whangarei, holder of the New Zealand amateur light-weight championship and winner of the Jamieson belt for the most scientific boxer at the New Zealand championships last year, is turning professional, and desires to fight in Dunedin. lie lias challenged Leckie, or any other light-weight in the Dominion. Hughes was Otago amateur fly-weight champion in 1027, and is a brother of Steve Hughes, the well-known professional boxer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 172, 24 July 1933, Page 14
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