Amateur boxing titles attract few entries

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32707, 9 September 1971, Page 24

Amateur boxing titles attract few entries

Unless more enter, only seven bouts will be fought at the Canterbury provincial senior and intermediate amateur boxing championships, to be held in the New Brighton R.S.A. Hall on Saturday evening.

There are no senior fly-weights and only one boxer entered in the bantam, feather, lightwelter and welter divisions.

The same three boxers have been entered for the light heavy-weight and heavy-weight divisions. Three boxers have entered for the light middle-weight division and three for the intermediate divisions. There will be only one bout in each of these sections. UNMATCHED REPS The Canterbury team to box in the national amateur chamiponships at Auckland on October 4, 5 and 6 will be chosen after the championships. It is clear that several senior and intermediate boxers will have to be selected without having a chance to fight for the provincial titles. D. Wilson, a most promising bantam-weight, who has been successful in previous junior national championships, has not had a fight this year because nobody has been found to match him. OFFER TO OTAGO The president of the Canterbury Boxing Association (Mr E. G. Pocock) and the amateur matchmaker (Mr C. Wellman) have asked the Otago Boxing Association to postpone its provincial championships, to be held on Saturday night, and send a team to the Canterbury titles. In return, the C.B.A. has promised to send a team to Dunedin on Saturday week to contest the Otago championship. So far, the Otago association has not agreed to the suggestion. Two weaknesses in the plan, particularly in view of the lack of amateur boxers up to championship standard in both Christchurch and Dunedin, are the danger that one opponent may outclass another making a return bout and a meeting at the national tournament rather farcical; or that a knock-out

or a technical knock-out may put a contestant out of boxing for several weeks.

Mr A. Fidow has been chosen as trainer of the Canterbury team and Messrs Pocock and Wellman will be the C.B.A. delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Boxing Association, during the national championships. Gymnasiums to be represented at the Canterbury

championships are the Woolston Working Men’s Club, Linwood Boys’ Club, Chrichton Cobbers Club, Irish Youth Club and Fidow’s and Kingburn gymnasiums. Entries in the senior division are:— SENIOR ENTRANTS Bantam-weight. D. Wilson (W.W.C.). Feather-weight. D. Letiu (L.8.C.). Light-weight.—R. Thompson (L.8.C.), S. Fidow (Fidow’s). Light welter-weight.—H. Bullmore (L.8.C.). Welter-weight. A. Dobson (W.W.C.). Light middle-weight.—C. Adams (L.8.C.), T. Ringdale (C.C.C.). Middle-weight. P. Feagaiga (Fidow’s), G. Lamb (W.W.C.), J. Barnes (1.Y.C.). Light heavy-weight. V. Mene (Fidow’s), P. Keniti (W.W.C.), Stave (C.C.C.), Shannon (L.8.C.). Heavy-weight. B. Pemberton (Kingburn), Slave, Shannon, t Intermediate entries:— Feather-weight. K. Pyne (W.W.C.). Light-weight. J. Mitchell (W.W.C.), R. Leonard (Temuka).