CZECH BOXERS IN TROUBLE
“Dissolute Living” Charge
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) PRAGUE, November 11.
Two leading Czechoslovak boxers have been excluded from the team to meet England at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on November 19. because of their dissolute living, press reports said today. The boxers, the Czechoslovak flyweight champion, Zdenek Pctrina, and Vladimir Hrbek. both of the Spartak Sokolovo Sports Club of Prague, were regular members of the national team. The trade union newspaper, “Prace.” said today that Petrina and Hrbek with other boxers had “lost interest in training, had simulated injuries and had refused to fight.” The club coach, Julius Torma, had several times to go and find the boxers in nightclubs when they should have been in training. One boxer even had to have his salary held back “for fear he would drink it.”
Boxers are the latest target in a drive to clean up Czechoslovak sport, said by newspapers and party officials to be plagued by partisanship, individualism and dishonesty. Last week 13 Soccer players were suspended for unfair play.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19581113.2.69.2
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 9
Word Count
176CZECH BOXERS IN TROUBLE Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.