BOXING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 17

BOXING

VERCOE-OVEREND BOUT POSTPONED. By Telegeayh.—pbess association. Blenheim, December 2. Dick Vercoe, who was scheduled to meet Roy Overend next Saturday in a professional ten-round bout, met with an accident yesterday. Bis hand was caught in the bolt of a machine, where he was employed, causing painful injuries to his thumb. The match is therefore indefinitely postponed. Referring to a report which appeared in the Hawera "Star” recently to the effect that there was some uneasiness among stud stock breeders in the south of the province as to the risk of cattle tick in exhibiting stock at the Hawera Show, seeing that cattle were to be exhibited from North Taranaki, the tick ‘‘being prevalent at Waitara,” the “Taranaki Herald” says that this creates quite a wrong impression. When the tick was first discovered at Waitara three years ago immediate steps were taken not only to prevent its spread, but to get rid of it, and the following year very few ticks were discovered, while so far this season not a single tick has l>een found, despite the fact that close supervision is being exercised by the staff of the Department of Agriculture.