BOXING

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1946, Page 6

BOXING

Vic Caltaux, the New Zealand wel-ter-weight who is expected to return to the Dominion from Australia, has been signed up by the Hutt Valley Boxing Association to meet J. Collins (Palmerston North) at the Petone Recreation Ground on February 9. This will be the first of four openair bouts to be staged by the association at Petone within the next two months. Tentative dates have been fixed for other bouts. On March 2 Caltaux will meet Bos Murphy. The final two bouts will see the renowned Vic Patrick, Australian welter-weight and light-weight champion, in action, the provisional dates being the end of March and at Easter. Patrick will meet Murphy in one of these matches. The Hutt Valley Association expects to have accommodation for 10,000 at the Petone Recreation Ground lor the Patrick-Murphy fight. Latest, advice from Australia was that. Patrick would meet Tommy Burns in a wel-ter-weight title bout on February 2. RACKET OVER SEAT BOOKINGS SYDNEY, Jan. 29 Twenty-four hours before booking opened for seats for the Burns-Pat-rick fight, which is to take place next Saturday, a queue for tickets began to form. The d'oors were opened at 8.45 a.m. to-day. .but a few were present yesterday morning. At 1 a.m. there was a queue of men and women in Martin Place and Pitt. Street, extending 150 yards. At 10.30 p.m., the police inspected the queue, stopped all cardplaying and ordered bed-rolls to be placed close against the buildings. Earlier one of Sydney’s most notorious rackets stepped in, when a smartly dressed youn women left a taxi and offered to sell tickets at £2O each. There were no takers. One man in the queue told a reporter: “I don’t want you to get me wrong. lam not here for my health. I am not going to see the fight. 1 am here to get a few easy quid. The four tickets I get will go off like hot. scones before the boys enter the ring.