Empire Games 1950.

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1947, Page 10

Empire Games 1950.

A suggestion that the company organising the Canterbury centenary exhibition in 1949-50 should underwrite the Empire Games if they were held in Christchurch in 1950 was referred to the provisional directors of the company by the interim committee at Christchurch yesterday. The committee believed that the Empire Games would be a great attraction and that, if the exhibition were assured of Government support, an attempt should be made to have them held in Christchurch. A letter was received from the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Committee saying that the proposal to apply for the Games in 1950 had been discussed with Dr. A. E. Porritt, whose opinion was that, as the last Games were held in Sydney, it was hardly likely that the next \vould be held in the Southern Hemisphere. He thought they were likely to be held in Canada. The committee decided to ask the Government if it would support an application for the Games to be held in Christchurch.

Boxers from America. The first American boxers to fly to Australia and New Zealand in search of fights arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Pan American Clipper en route to Australia. They were Eddie Marcus, a light-weight, who has been signed up for a bout with the Australian, Vic Patrick, and two negroes, Emory Jackson, a middle-weight, and O’Neil Bell, a welter-weight. Marcus said the reputation of the New Zealand welter-weight champion, Bos Murphy, was well known in the United States, and that both he and Bell, who had fought the present welter-weight champion of the world, Roy Robinson, were anxious to meet him. —(P.A.)