BOUT SET FOR JULY 28

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 169, 19 July 1941, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOUT SET FOR JULY 28

, Zivic-Cochrane Title Fijrht Is Postponed Third Time NKWAKK. N 1.. June 11. Anij'licr postponement wa -» called l<»-tki\- fur llu- world's champion-hip welter-weiirhi box in?: match he;wren the tit Ir-holdrr. Kriizir Zivir. of I'm.-- ! burjjh. and Freddie Midi) Cochrane, j of Lllizaheth. j Co-pronioirrs Mike Jacobs and Thomas.). <Babe> Culnan tentativ\-'.y set .July 2s. as the new dale for the fifteenth-rounder io hr Marred at Huppert Stadium, home of the Newark j ßears of the International I.raj: ut\ ] The two boxers appeared at New I .Jersey Athletic ("ommi.--ior.er Abe .1 : (.Ire-ene's otliee to sijm new contracts •and post forfeits of U.Vio dollars each. This marks the third time the j liont has been postponed. Originally ; it was scheduled for May 2'i at tr.c j Newark Academy, but was twice set | hack because Zivir was ill. | The latest date was .Inly 0. lmt : Jacobs asked (Ireene's permission to ; postpone it br< ause of Zivic's boti: | on July 1 at New York with Private ■ A 1 Davis of tiie I'nited States Aran. I The Zivic-Davis match wa- schedi uled for June but a new date wa - | set because of the closeness of tho I Joe Louis-Hill Conn heav\ w eight J title match next week. • Jacobs assured Greene. "This will i be positively the la.-t postponement.