BOXING.
PROSPECTS OF FIXTURES. Per Press Association. ’WELLINGTON. March 19. According to Mr G. P. Aldridge, secretary of the New Zealand Boxing Council, who has just returned from Australia, it does not appear likely that, unless the conditions are modified, it will be possible to bring the heavyweights Strickland and Richards together for a fight in this country. Richards was very keen to come and if the decision were left to him Richards would make the trip. His manager, however, was holding out for a purse of £IOOO. In regard to the proposed visit to New Zealand by a team of Australian amateur boxers. Mr Aldridge said that although in Melbourne officials were quite willing, Mr McC’luskey of Brisbane, the secretary of the Australian Amateur Wrestling and Boxing Association, bad told him quite definitely that the officials in Queensland were opposed to the tour while there was so much agitation in respect to military service. This matter rests with the New Zealand Boxing Council and the Australian bodv.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9
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168BOXING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9
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