BOXING

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21863, 17 August 1936, Page 13

BOXING

- CANTERBURY AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS The Canterbury amateur boxing championship tournament, to be held at the Caledonian Hall to-morrow evening, will start at 7.30. Thirty-four nominations having been received—a record numberwill necessitate 25 contests. All classes! arc well represented, and the evenings entertainment should be of the brightest. With the exception of the fly-weight (which will be of three two-minute rounds), the whole (if the contests will be of three three-minute rounds. From the winners will be chosen Canterbury s representatives for the New Zealand championships to be held at Wellington on September 4, 5, and 7. ' UNINSPIRING CONTEST AT DUNEDIN ♦ _____ (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, August 16. In a 15-round professional light-heavy-weight boxing bout last night, the Australian, Claude Nichol. X2st 61b, gained a decisive points victory over the negro, Roy de Cans, 12st 41b. It was an uninspiring contest, although a few rounds were marked by some clever boxing. ROSENBLOOM DRAWS WITH KELLY CROWD SHOWS DISPLEASURE (VKXTBO PRESS ABSOCIATXOH—OOPIRIOHT.) > (Received August 16, 6,30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, August 16. What is regarded as the biggest boxing brawl in years occurred last night at the West Melbourne Stadium when, before 10,000 spectators, the Sydney referee, Joe Wallis, declared the Maxie Rosenbloom and Leo Kelly fight a draw. The crowd repeatedly counted the men out. The fight was certainly a very tame affair, with rarely a decent blow and considerable clinching. It was quite unworthy of the standard of two outstanding boxers. What clean work there was was Rosenbloom’s. His slapping left was never out of Kelly’s face. Kelly’s only purple patch was the seventh round, when a vicious left connected with Bosenbloom’s chin and had him in a little trouble.