LATE SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 8

LATE SPORTING

BOXING. MURRAY v. CHAMBERS. Two professional boxing contests will bo staged at His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday night under the jurisdiction of the Otago Boxing Association. The preliminary ol ton rounds is between the local bantam champion, Tommy Griffiths, and Eddio Ross (fly-weight champion of Western Australia), who has been associated with the sport for the past eight years. Ross has many decisions to his credit over good boxing boys in Australia. Bocal boxing fans are interested over this pending clash. The star event of fifteen rounds between Billie Chambers (the Australian Iffiht-v,-eight champion) and our local Los Murray is sufficient to attract a large audience. The box plan tor reserves is now open at Hie Bristol. Day sales for pit and stalls can be obtained at Jacobs’s, on Thursday. PHIL SCOTT KNOCKED OUT. LONDON, June 11. (Received June 15, at 2 p.m.) For the. European heavy-weight championship Harry Persson knocked out Phil Scott in the eleventh round.—Reuter. LAWN TENNIS. F 1! ENC H CHAMP 10 NS HI PS. Pre« Association—By Telegraph—. Copyright PARIS, June 14. (Received Juno lu, at 2 p.m.) Tu the French hard-court championships (Inal Cocliet bent Laco.-Jc, C-2, (3-4., 6-3.—Reuter. ALL~BLACKS’ TEAM, A POWERFUL COMBINATION. SYDNEY, Juno 15. (Received June 15, at 12.25 p.m.) Satisfaction is expressed in Rugby Union circles at the personnel of the All Black team. The combination is regarded as a powerful one. Tlio selectors are apparently anxious to avenge the only defeat inflicted upon the 1921 team. So far, there lias been no definite move to select flic New South Wales team, but a scheme is afoot for a tost team to go into training quarters for a period betore the matches.