BOXING IN NAPIER
LECKIE v. HUGHES TO-NIGHT. OPEN-AIR CONTEST. Hughes has arrived and has been training hard Seen by the writer he expressed confidence that he could win easily, and with a few pounds extra in weight, considers that eight or nine rounds should be sufficient to make it clear who is the better man. Never before has the association had to work so hard to put a contest on. Arrangements for the building of the stadium in McLean Park, which cost £ll5 by the way, traffic problems, transportation from various parts to the park gates, etc., have left little time for anything else. New Plymouth had 8000 people to witness their open-air fight, and Wellington had 16,000. We are not so ambitious,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 3
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