MURRAY RETAINS LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE.
BLACKBURN'S GAME SHOWING. FIGHT STOPPED IN 14th ROUND. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night. Les. Murray (Southland) defeated Clarrie Blackburn (Auckland), before a. record crowd in the Town Hall tonight, and thus retained the lightweight championship of New Zealand. Blackburn did all the attacking in the first seven rounds, but Murray showed superior ring-craft. From tho tenth round onwards Blackburn took a great deal of punishment, but retaliated gamely, The referee stopped the fight in tho fourteenth round, when Blackburn, was almost out.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 5
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87MURRAY RETAINS LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 5
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