BOXING.
HARRY COHEN'S ACTION. NO BAN AT OLYMPIAD. SYDNEY, April 30. Mr. P. Cramer, the German Olympic representative in Australia and New Zealand, states that Germany will receive all nations and their sports teams with the same friendliness. The fact that the Australian boxer Harry Cohen belonged to the Jewish faith should not have prevented him from going to the Olympiad. A (message from Sydney on April 28 stated that it was because Harry Cohen, boxer, who had been chosen as a provisional member of the Australian Olympic Games team, feared that his Jewis-i faith might involve him in trouble m Germany- that he withdrew from the team and turned professional.
A. AITKEN BEATS JOYCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Dealing out severe punishment with a most effective right, Alph Altk ®" town), 9.0%, last night defeated Jerry Joyce (Miramar), 9.0 with a knock-out in the ninth round. Aitken had the ter of the match from the start.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 13
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