BOXING AT GREYMOUTH.
LECKIE BEATS MELTON. ' (pKESS" ; ASSbCIATIOX TELEOBAIf.) • GREYMOUTH, October 21. A feather-weight professional boxing contest for a £l5O purse * between Johnny" Leckie and Billy Melton before a large crowd last night ended in tho seventh rounds when Melton's cornef skied the in the second round and thereafter, was manifestly the master, hitting the more speedily and the oftener. while Melton relied on his- right, which often proved wide of the mark..
Jaggers (Christchurch) 10.4,' beat Cottter (Greymouth) in a six-rounds amateur bout after, a good showings while in the other amateur bouts Croft heat Moffitt in a very mill, and Richardson won from Steel in a good bout.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19447, 22 October 1928, Page 6
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