Boxing TEAM BACK FROM TRIP

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 15

Boxing TEAM BACK FROM TRIP

L. Hunter Much Improved (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 18. A feather-weight boxer, L. Hunter, has become a prospect for next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mr F. H. Hughes. of Invercargill. manager of the New Zealand amateur team which returned from Australia yesterday, said that of all the fighters on the tour, Hunter had shown the biggest improvement. Included among his victims was Empire Games gold medallist. J. Dynevor, whom he outpointed twice. “Hunter has had a few fights, but he is still only 13. He Is going to go on improving. If he can foot ft with the Russians here next March, he will surely get the Olympic trip." Others who showed improvement had been the Auckland fly-weight. W. Young, and Paul Lister, of Gisborne. Both won their five fights. The tour had been a success in everything except travel arrangements, said Mr Hughes. Flying would have been much less tiring than the long bus and train trips the team had been asked to make.

The amateur boxing scene In Australia was he said, but professional fighting had “gone to the pack. Big crowds attended professional bouts only when they featured good overseas boxers.