BOXING.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2564, 23 December 1924, Page 7

BOXING.

MACDONALD v, PARKER. The local association has gone one better than its previous best in securing the coveted return fight between Lachie MacDonald, champion middleweight of New Zealand, and Eddie Parker, the cx-charapion. The fight, which will take place at the Opera House on Boxing'•.light, will be over 15 rounds for the middleweight championship and a purse of £2OO, which is to be divided in the proportion of 70 per cent, to the winner and 30 per cent, to the vanquished. If ever there was promise of an evenly contested match this is the occasion. Each boy is confident of winning and there was so little between them when MacDonald won by a narrow margin of points that the Hawke’s Bay sports cannot see thoir idol beaten. Parker •is a fine sport and he will enter the ring confident of turning the tables on his formidable opponent. MacDonald is just as sure that he can hold the title a bit longer and the cannv sports from Dunedin will not consider the possibility of his getting .“licked” by a North Islander, even it Barker did learn most of his fighting in Timaru. It is tho evenness of the contestants —the great records of each bov, combined with their well-known stand-up-to-your-man method of boxing_that makes this the greatest match ever staged in Palmerston North. The box plans may be seen at Oates’ stores until Christmas Day, when they will be transferred to the Kosy booking office. This is a boon to race visitors, who should take full advantage of booking during the holidays.