SATURDAY’S BOXING CONTEST

Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 2

SATURDAY’S BOXING CONTEST

HARRY LISTER V. EDDIE'PARKER The fifteen-round professional flight-heavy-weight contest at His Majesty s Theatre on Saturday night between Harry Lister and Eddie Parker is attracting considerable interest, and a good house seems assured. Lister is one of the most active fighters in the dominion to-day, and regarded as one of the greatest crowd-pleasers in tire game. He is the middle-weight champion of the dominion, but-weight means nothing to him, and he has frequently gone out of his class lor matches.. He is a solid, two-handed fighter, with a powerful punch, and believes in fighting from gong to gong. In Eddie Parker he will be meeting one of the shrewdest ring-generals boxing lias had since the war, and on the first occasion the men met Parker won a close points’ decision, the return match being drawn. Parker held the middle-weight title ten or eleven years ago, and lost it to Lachie Macdonald, but he has staged an amazing come-back, and recently defeated Ray Nicol, the New Zealand light-heavy ‘and heavy-weight champion. He is a very clever, boxer, and will require all his skill to keep ‘out the aggressive Lister. The bout should be a solid affair, and one worth -going a long way to see. Good preliminaries are being arranged. Particulars are advertised.