BOXING SELECTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 18698, 29 July 1924, Page 7

BOXING SELECTIONS.

XO JHB EDITOB

Sir, —I would like to suggest to the selectors before they make their final selection on Monday night that J. Paul, lightweight, should bo included in the team to represent Otago at ‘Wellington next month, First, because he has not been beaten this season after meeting the best we have in the light-weights' at the recent championships; ho also beat in the first round at the sports rooms Edmond, the winner of the medal for the most scientific boxer last year. Ho then went to Oamaru and beat*Smit.heram in a three-rounds contest. I also think that Les Murray is a good judgo of a boy’s boxing ability, and he has said that ho had a light-weight in training that ho expected to go a long way in tho championships, and that ho was tho next thing to perpetual motion he had seen. This boy I taka to be Batchelor, who had no chance of winning except the way he did. which was the most unfortunate thing for Paul. Batchelor followed . with a hard swing with his right to Paul’s head; Paul ducked, and Batchelor, coming in, struck Paul’s head —the purest of accidents, which lost the championship, tho championship medal, a trip to Wellington, and a possible trip to Australia to represent New Zealand next month.

I write this not only as my own opinion, hut also as the opinion of quite a lot of good judges, as a protest against a pure accident being the means of keeping Paul fiom representing Otago.—l am, etc., JAY. July 28.