CROYDON SCHOOL BOXING TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 6

CROYDON SCHOOL BOXING TOURNEY

The Oroydon Diocesan Boys' . School held its annual' boxing tournament in the pavilion.at Day's Bay on Juiy and a-:' In welcoming tho boys' parents and others who were in attendancerlhe prinoipal, tno Rev. E. H. Hobday, remarked that the annual boxing tournament was a special leature at the sohool, and besides foitering a spirit of competition amongst the boys, it gave 'the parents an opportunity ot witnessing tho excellent physical training their boys wero receiving. lhe_omcials were Mr. Staples (referee), Mr. Ourtayne (tiine-keoper), assisted by Mr. Woodward and Mr. Alan Maxwell (tho instructor). The bouts, which wero keenly contested throughout, resulted as follow:— Heavy-weight.—First Bound: Thomson beat Williams, maj.; Stevenson beat Grey; Lane, mi:, beat Hume, mi.; Eankine beat Hume, maj.; Lane, maj,, beat Stranj. Second Bound: Lane, maj., beat Stevenson; Lane, mi., beat 'Bankine. i Semi-final: Lane, maj., beat Thomson. Pinal: Lane, maj., beat-Lane, mi. Middle-weight—First Eound: Murray beat Whitehead; Saunders beat Lane Hi; Williams, mi., beat Crawford; Hume 111 beat Home; Grace, beat Bennett, maj,; Lo Grove beat- Saxby; WardeH beat Willoughby. Second Round: Murray beat Saunders; Le Grove beat-'Williams, mi.; Grace beat Hume III; Wardell beat Beale. Senil-finai: Le Grove beat Murray; Grace beat Wardell. Final; Lo Grove beat Grace;

Light-weights—First Hound: Carpenter, maj., beat Acton-Adams; Manoy fl mi., beat Grove, maj.; Manoy, maj., beat Bennett III: Oaselberg .beat Stacu; Nathan beat Aitfcen; Lane TV beat Mathews, maj. Second Eound: Ma'noy, maj., beat Carpenter, maj.; Caselborg beat Manoy, mi.; Lane IV beat Nathan. Semi-final: Casclberg Dean Lane'lV. Final: . Oaselberg beat Manoy, inaj.

Feather-weights.—First Eound: Blundell beat Carpenter, mi.; Dudley beat Bartlett, maj.; Eeid beat Cameron; Hewitt beat Goss; Matthews, mi., boat QroVo, mi.; Colf?u8 fiei? liiTsTi, mi.: Nash, maj. beat Sdiufield, maj.; Tato beat Kchofield, mi. Second Eound: Eeid boat Tate; Blundell beat Collins; Dudley .beat Basil, maj.; lleWiu beat Matthews, mi. Semi-finals: Blundell beat Eeid; Hewitt beat Dudley. Imai: Hewitt boat Blundell. Tlio Wellington Boxing Association's medal lor the most scientific boxer was awarded to Le Grove, wuh Grace runner-up.