BOXING
NICOL DEFEATS SULLIVAN. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, July 3. In a contest for the light-heavy-weight professional boxing championship of New Zealand, between Ray Nicol the holder, and Bill Sullivan (Hastings), the challenger, Nicol Avon on points after a. spirited match, the best seen in Auckland for some considerable time. Nicol proved a clever fighter. Sullivan relied chiefly on stinging rights, but Nicol took a majority of them on his shoulder. Sullivan tired badly towards the end. BANTAM TITLE. (Received July,4, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. Al Brown, by out-pointing Johnny King, in a fifteen rounds bout at Manchester, .retained the world’s bantamweight championship.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1933, Page 6
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