BOXING ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 9

BOXING ASSOCIATION.

TROUBLE WITH THE HAWKE'S BAY ,- / ASSOCIATION. . ' -EXPLANATION BY THE -CHAIRMAN. ' The committee of ■'tlie Wellington Boxing is'sociation . met last-night, Jifr. Rl W.. ftt'Villy occupying, the cliair. ' , ■ ; Referenco, l ,was made: to certain criticism if ;th'e.. action iof■■ tho committee - in refusing (to. allow Mr. W. S. .Fagan to be a member lof 'tho Hawke-S; Bay Associatioii,- which is ituidcr tho jurisdiction .of the Wellington. Asaociatioh. Application. liad been made to ih&yc the'matter reopened, 'but the comimittee '-had decided at the previous: meeting, not to accede -to the request. 'It was pointed out,-that according to .a 'special telegram ap(poaring .in The Bominton, tlie question bad siiice 'been further' disciissed ;by the Hawke's [Bay Association,. whioli," it was stated, ; "!had every reason ,to halic,v« that, a. verbal icliargc/niado against Mr,. Fagan was unfounded, -and it had, thei'efore,, decided to nee -the matter through.".

The chairman said the position was as follows;: —He had gohe tp •-a ' considerable amount of troublo to explain to Mr". Jacgar .(the secretaiy of the Hattfe-s Bay Association) how difficult it : was to maintain tho purity -of - the sport. Among other things, he. had -told him that the Wellington Association was not going to permit any association under its jurisdiction to conduct the management of boxing at a standard lower •than.that which it,had set lip. He was not personally acquainted with.Mr. Fagaii. Tha fact remained, however, that_ they wereaware, on very reliable authority, that the •methods of an association with which Mr. Fiigan was formerly --connected, were not in conformity with the Association's standards. As far as lie (the chairman) was personally concerned, tho Wellington Association woulq not agreo to the of any association the members of which included any o' 'the persons who had heen associated wit( the -association ill question. So far as th( .threat about "seeing it through" was con. e'erned, the speaker' would like to point out that there were two sets- of people who were prepared to do that.' : : Some discussion 'followed, but as no official intimation from the Hawke's Bay Association was before the mebtiiig, no further aotion, was taken. •

: : .. .. OTHER. BUSINESS. , : Tho. programme in connection with . tha amateur championships under the auspices of the Horowlionua Boxing "Association•* on September '9 was approved, It was reported tli.-jt P. Halo had been .selected to represent the Association in tha :lioavy.-lve)ght,,. division at the New Zealand •championships on August 19 and 20. ' The prices of admission in connection with the ' Godfrey-Ireland contest at tho- Opera .House on September 1 wore fixed as follow: —Stage, ,10s.; front stalls. os.; dress circle, Gs.; back stalls, 45.; and family circle, 26. It was reported that Mr. W. F. Corbctt • (representative of the Association in Aus-tralia)-had'been written to with a view of ascertaining : whether Sid Sullivan, professional feather-weight champion' of Australia, was willing to meet Tim Tracev, professional light-weight champion of the Dominion, in a 16-round contest on November 24. \ Jack Griffin,-Arat-ika, applied fpl- A match ' with Tim Tracey for the professional lightweight championship of New Zealand, and Albert Parker, of Dunedjii, asked to bo matched with' any light-weiglit. It was decided to reply that the requests could not bo acceded to. at-the'present time.