BOXING ON MONDAY.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 4

BOXING ON MONDAY.

Preliminaries Arranged.

An excellent programme has beei arranged by the Wellington Boxing As sociation to be staged; at the xowi Hall on Monday night. The main at raction will be a professional contes >otween Harold Reeve (Pahiatua), Nev Zealand ligh.t-heavy\veight champion md Fred (."Kid") Fisher, formerly o; England. The bout is scheduled t( ast the full championship distance o; Ifteen three-minute rounds and th< jast performances of the two men indi :ate that there will be bright actior he whole time. Reeve has been seer lere previously and has shown himsel o be a highly-attractive boxer who be ieves in attack as the best means of de 'ence and who has a high degree o: ikill. He has an outstanding record laving lost only one professional con est. Fisher first gained prominent is a boxer in the Old Country, and h< las met with considerable success 11 he Dominioh during the past year ie is a clean, crisp hitter whose dis jlays have invariably found iavoui vith the public. There is bound to be plenty of ex •itement during the amateur prelimm iries, particularly during a series o. >ne-minute bouts between representa ives of the Miramar and Moera Clubs [?his form of contest higho jopular in Auckland and ]was similarly :uccessful when tried m Wellingtoi ast year. There will then be five con ests between leading amateurs fronr. he city and suburbs, the following >oys having been matched:—Bantams r. Parker (Newtown) v. T. Dunn Moera); feathers, J. Wilson (Tracy's) I Watson (MiramaiO; lightweights, , Parris (Tartan) v. P. Hughes Tracy's); welters. W. Luddon (Newown) v. G. Imlach (Berhampore); R. Cameron (Miramar) v. S. Martin (Mo■ra). Particulars are advertised.