BOXING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 July 1924, Page 5

BOXING.

WELL IN G TON CHAMPIONSHIPS. TOURNAMENT AT HAWERA. The following entries have been received for the first annual championship, Wellington Centre, at Hawera, on dune 18 and 19:— Flyweignt.—C. Woods (Wellington), R. Willis (Hawera), H. McLaughlin (Hawera), (J. Hoskins (Wanganui;, N. U. Roebuck (.Taranaki), U. Childs (Stratford). Bantam-weight.—J. Crowley (Wellington), M. Carroll (Marlborough), J. Evans and E. Nesbit (Manawatu), Roy Hayward (Hawera), G. Prietas (Wanganui).

Featherweight.—P. Black (Wellington), P. Vercoe (Marlborough), T. Tapps (Masterton), R. P'otbury (Manawatu), E. Mercer (Hawera), Roy Forward (Wanganui), A. Collins (Stratford), D. Mercer (Auroa). Lightweight.—P. Charles (Wellington), J. Rodd and P. Vercoe (Marlborough), D. Creighton and R. de Cleene (Manawatu),. W. Gray (Wanganui), I>. Loveiidge (Taranaki), J. Johnson (Masterton), G. Cadinan (Auroa). Welterweight.—J. Nelson (Wellington), F. Brougham (Marlborough), R. Johanson (Masterton), •W. Walden (Manawatu), A. Duggan (Hawera).

Middleweight.—F. Renner '(Wellington), R. Johansen (Masterton), J. O’Keefe (Manawatu), A. Verron (Wanganui), C. Furze (Taranaki), Vic. Brosnan (Kapuin), E. O’Keefe (Auroa). (The entrance of R. Johansen for the middleweight is a palpable error, as the man only weighs 9.9, so he has been entered in the welter and lightweights. Light-heavyweight. ; L. McGuire (Taranaki) G. Evatt t Wellington), W. father ley (Marlborough), W. Hunt • (Manawatu), T. Tomsitt (Wanganui). Heavyweight.—C. Mcßae (Wellington), L. McGuire (Taranaki). . The total entries, including Johansen for the middleweight, are 42. Hawera has been most fortunate in securing tlie championship meeting, and the Hawera Association is to be congratulated upon having made such a god impression with the control organisation as to be deemed worthy -of the control of such an important fixture.Every effort is being made to make the tournament- a success, and a first-class orchestra has been -engaged for the' occasion.

Owiug to the number of entries, it will he necessary to have all the contestants weighexi and medically examined before 7.30 o’clock on the night of the tournament, and all who are competing are particularly reuested to watch for an advertisement which will appear later announcing the time and place for these necesasry preliminaries. Wide interest has already been aroused in the tournament, and from* present indications it will, be difficult to comply with all demands for seats.