BOXING

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1934, Page 11

BOXING

RAYNER v. McKAY

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

BLENHEIM, July 15

Clarrie Rayner, of Blenheim, 9.4, featherweight chantpion, outboxed Johnny McKay, of Gisborne, 9.7, in .a fifteen-round lightweight contest here. The visitor scarcely won a round. Rayner was too fast and too clever, scoring snappy leads and moving out of range before his opponent could retaliate. McKay tried to retrieve the verdict with a knock-out, but Rayner was brilliantly elusive.

AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR

WELLINGTON, July 1G

The secretary of the New Zealand Boxing Association, Mr. Aldridge, states that the following will probably comprise the team of Australian boxers, which will tour the Dominion in October: —

H. Pui, eight stone, Australian champion. K. Rdad, 8.9, Tasmania, runner-up to the Australian Champion. J. Moore, 9.0, New South Wales and Austraian Champion. A. Harvey 9.9, Queensland and Australian Champion 1932. A. Christie 10.7, New South Wales runner-up to the Australian f Champion. J. Miles, 11.6, Queensland runner-up to the Australian Champion. W. Burns, light heavyweight, 'Queensland and Australian middleweight champion. J. Ireland, heavyweight and New South Wales Champion 1932. The team arrives at Auckland on October 2, and proceeds to Invercargill where it meets a team of New Zealand amateur champions in a test match on October 10 and 11. The Australians return to Wellington, where they will meet a team of Wellington amateurs on October 15, and then visit Rotorua, and meet a team of Auckland amateurs at Auckland on October 22.

VETERAN’S DEATH

JOHANNESBURG, July 14.

The death has occurred here of Bill Heffernan, an old time boxer, who made his name in the heyday of the Australian boxing game. He came to the Rand in the nineties, and he became middleweight champion of South Africa. He fought a memorable battle with Tom Duggan, the middleweight champion of Australia.