CALTAUX BEATEN.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. Mervyn Willis, former Queensland lightweight boxing champion, defeated Vic Caltaux, New Zealand welter-weight titleholder, on points in a non-championship boxing contest of 12 rounds here on Saturday. Willie (10.9) was a pound heavier. The bout was fast and exciting, Willis winning by superior science, especially In defencp. Willis scored a knock-down in the fifth round and was himself down in the tenth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1940, Page 11
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