VICTORIA COLLEGE BOXING
The Victoria College Boxing Club is making a strong effort to revive the popularity of the gloves among the students. The college is represented each year at the intef-c6llege Easter tourney, but the bouts held in the past have been in the nature of elimination contests, to which the public was not invited, and eligibility for which ws confined to those who had fulfilled certain lecture qualifications during the previous year. Thus many students have been unable to participate in university boxing. ' The Victoria College Club has now decided to have an annual college boxing tournament, and the first will take plac& in the college gymnasium nest" Wednesday. To qualify for entry students must either have attended lectures last yeai* o" be attending them this year. "The tournanent will be open to the public, and some good bouts are promised. Altogether there are some two dozen entries, the heavier weights being weil represented. Among those are several who were prominent in the last intercollege tournament held in Wellington, and several ex-champions from the secondary schools. A small admission fee will be charged to defray expenses,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 66, 20 March 1933, Page 2
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