JACOBS IN AUSTRALIA
Em Jacobs, the Wellington boxer who met -Harold Reeve in the Town Hall on Thursday night, commenced his professional career in Australia a little -over a year ago. Before he returned home he had 21 contests,
eleven in 1934 and ten this'-year. • The matches were:; May, 1934,idrew Vith Billy Mack, four. rounds; i drew with Tommy O'Keefe (four); June, defeated Syd. Gray (four); drew with Chris. Richards (six); defeated Syd. Seymour, k.o. (two); July, lost to Neil Johnson (four); lost to Jim Davidson (four); October, lost to Syd. Powell, k.o. (nine); November, lost'to "Broncho" Eldridge (eight); December, defeated Bobby Burns (six); lost to "Wokks" Britt (ten); January, 1935, defeated Jack Gordon (six); February, defeated "Broncho" Eldridge, k.o: (five);; April, defeated- Ken McDermott (four); defeated Bobby- Burns (six); lost to "Wokks" Britt (six); lost to "Wokks" Britt (six); lost to "Broncho" Eldridge. (six); "lost to Henry Maloney (eight). Jacobs then 'came over to New Zealand with a view of annexing the middleweight title which "Harry Lister had forfeited through remaining out of the: Dominion more than six months. In May he defeated both: M. O'Brien and "Kid" Fisher on points; in June he defeated O'Brien again (the bout was intended to be for the middleweight title but Jacobs was over-weight); last month he was beaten by Ray Nicol in a bout for the light-heavyweight title and defeated Jack. Ford. This month he has beaten Les Brander and dropped a decision to Harold Reeve. ' -
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19350824.2.172.4
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 48, 24 August 1935, Page 22
Word Count
245JACOBS IN AUSTRALIA Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 48, 24 August 1935, Page 22
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in