Empire Boxing Title Fight In New Zealand

Northern Advocate, 23 July 1938, Page 7

Empire Boxing Title Fight In New Zealand

Boxing

i Prp.s-' Association. Copt) eight..> WELLINGTON, This Day. A cable received from London contains the information that the British. Boxing Board, in a statement, welcomes Empire title fights in any of the Dominion and would sanction a Dominion promoter matching Larry Gains and Maurice Strickland. The cablegram apparently arises from al otter sent last month to the general secretary of (ho British Boxing Board of Control. Mr. G. F. Donnell, by Mr. G. P. Aldridge, of Wellington. in which the board was asked for advice am’ jf possible, help in the staging of a British Empire professional championship boxing match in conjunction with the Centennial Exhibition, “It is an ambitious undertaking for a small country like Noy Zealand" wrote Mr. Aldridge, “but the knowledge that we are a great sporting community suggests that the venture is not beyond us. We realise that the staging cf such a contest would require a fairly substantial purse and expenses to induce the holder of the title to come to New Zealand to defend his title, and it is in direction that your advice would be highly ap-

predated. Just what stake would bo necessary, taking a line through the staging of an Empire title contest in Great Britain? Tire division tc- be chosen would depend on the quality of the opponent we have here at that time, but we should know our position about this lime next year.