WHAT IS CAUSE OF BOXING DECLINE IS QUESTION ASKED
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —What is the cause of the dwindling public support for boxing. This question was posed by the retiring president of the New Zealand Boxing Association, Mr R. Stuart Glendimng, at the annual conference of the Association today. Throughout New Zealand, said Mr Glendining, associations had been fighting a downhill struggle. A remedy for the decline had to be sought. “We have not a very high class of professional,” continued Mr Glendining, “but these men have a very high opinion of their drawing capacity. They ask for purses that are out of all proportion to their drawing capacity. Something must be done to bring purses down to more reasonable figures.” The incoming president, Mr H. N. Hunt, said that unfortunate experiences with professionals were among the causes for the decline. The conference was opened by Mr Justice Hutchison. The conference rejected a proposal by the Hutt Valley delegate that the administrators of boxing in New Zealand should be restricted to men who had boxed as amateurs themselves.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1949, Page 4
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