Boxing LAVES HOLIDAY IN TONGA
“Snubbed By Queen Salote” LONDON, December 1. The Tongan heavy-weight boxer Kitione Lave said today that he had been snubbed by Queen Salote.
Lave, aged 25, said that on his recent three months’ holiday in his native Tonga, the Queen refused to see him. “I went to the Palace twice, but each time the secretary told me .'The Queen does not want to see you’. “I was flabbergasted and could not think why the Palace should adopt this attitude,” Lave said. “I have always been welcomed with open arms, and the Queen has been very friendly towards me.
“This snub from the Queen has upset me so much that I may not fight again for Tonga. In future I think I will fight for Britain.” Lave has been matched to fight Joe Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on December 14. Lave, who caused a sensation when he knocked out Don Cockell three years ago, was suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control last October over arrangements for a bare-fist fight.
The fight was banned after the police had taken him to Court. The “Daily Sketch” quoted Lave as saying: “All this publicity reached Tonga and the Queen—and I gather she didn’t like it.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 19
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