UNIQUE PROGRAMME

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 4 December 1935, Page 3

UNIQUE PROGRAMME

Friday’s Boxing Fixture ALL RETURN BOUTS Never before in the history of boxing in this province has such a unique programme been presented to enthusiasts as will the ease next Friday evening when every bout on the Hawke’s Bay Boxing Association’s outstanding programme, iu the Hastings Municipal Theatre will bo a “return” bout. This means that the association is reaping the benefit of past experiences and has been enabled to select those bouts that have already proved popular with the paying public. Such an opportunity very rarely presents itself to any promoting organisation and it is interesting to note that the Hawke’s Bay enthusiasts are to have served to them the thrills that have already, but on different occasions, been handed out to Dunedin and Auckland fans. The programme will open at 8 olcloek on Friday evening with the meeting of Morrie Donovan and Jack Philpott, two youngsters w-ho created a great sensation in their first meeting at the recent amateur tournament in the Trades Hull. They will be followed by a special four-round bout between “Buster” Boyle, the New Zealand flyweight champion, and Hawke’s Bay’s first boxer to bring a second national championship to this province, and Joe Mclvor. Then will come the most expensive amateur contest that has ever been staged in this district. It-will be something of an innovation, for it will be a six round preliminary between D’Acy Heeney, who will come by aeroplane from Gisborne, and Jack Davis, Poverty Bay and Hawke’s Bay welterweight champion respectively. These two met for the first time at the New Zealand amateur championships ai Dunedin.

The curtain will be rung down with the professional featherweight contest between Billy Aitken, of Wellington, and Billy McKay of Gisborne. Here wo have what is generally admitted to be one of the outstanding “natural” lights at present offerug in the Dominion. Originally Auckland matched the pair and packed the Town Hall and they had no regrets afterwards for the crowd was more than satisfied with the performance of both competitors. It will be recalled that arising out of this fixture when Mrs. Aitken seconded her son at the ringside, the N.Z.B.G. placed a ban on women at the ringside.

All that remains in this review is to mention that already there has been a remarkable enqury for seats at the box plan office, Mr. J.- D. Donovan’s saloon, Heretaunga street, Hastings, a feature of enquiries being the interest displayed from Napier, Central Hawke's Bay and the surrounding districts of Hastings.