BOXING
LECKIE TOO GOOD FOE
CARROLL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
' -. . ■ DUNEDIN, 26th Jujy A professional^boxing contest between Johnny ,Leckie, Dunedin (Bst 13%1b) and Mark Carroll, Wanganui (9st 4V4lb) took Place to-night. ■ The fight was scheduled for fifteen rounds for a purge of £100, but ■m the eleventh round, in which Carroll was down three times, rising at. the count of niiur each time, the referee stopped tht roirtd 30-seconds'before "the end of
Leckie had the better of matters in practically every, round, quite outboxing his opponent, who tried without success to make it an in;fieht.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 9
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94BOXING Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 9
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