BOXING.
PARKER BEATS WILLIAMS. UNFAVOURABLE DECISION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. Eddie Parker (list. 81b.) was given tho decision dver Merv Williams (list. 61b.) in a fifteen rounds boxing contest. Williams scored freely with his left. Tho decision evoked an uproar of protest from tho crowd. ONE PUNCH. PARISIAN EIGHT THRILL. LONDON, March 24. Thirty thousand spectators at a boxing match in Paris, became enraged when Paolino, the Italian heavyweight, knocked out Harry Drake, an Englishman, with his first punch. The crowd demanded their money back, and pelted the boxers and the referee with bananas, oranges, tomatoes and electric light bulbs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 7
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102BOXING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 7
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