BOXING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 8

BOXING.

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.• n:. TKLBOBAFH--P&B8S 'iifTOUtt^,'^."' ~ • A:■■:-■ >^^y;-ll^MlLT^^S#:s;4^-;:i Correspondence :,iwlaiiiigs.-i;;-':-i9V::'/tho; MitclieU v. Murphy nghi forlli© mi^ dle>-weight, ■■•caampionsliipi>:-riwiiiich:' the referee declared no contest ;on the .grounds that the men were not tcyittjg, was read at a meeting of the Waikato Boxing Association, and statements by both contestants were put in. Murphy said he : tried throughout, and Mitchell stated that he wa^| approached by F; Hand, the president, and.W. Jordan, a member of the executive, asking him to prolong the fight: He.. could have knocked Murphy out at any time he wished.;1' ] ■'■ ■■ "' ■'':'," ::i;: : ■-■■' -■' •'. ■■ : ;: i ;-' Messrs Hand and Jordan .theydid remark in a jocular, manner, "Give the public "a show for their money." .- Both men were disqualified for six months. * ,