Less Support For Boxing
WELLINGTON. Mon., (P.A.).—What is the cause of dwindling public support for boxing? This question was posed :by the retiring president of the New Zealand Boxing Association (Mr R Stuart Glendining) at the annual conference of the association today.
Throughout New Zealand, said Mr Glendining. associations had been fighting a downhill struggle. A remedy for the decline iaci tc fct> sought. “We have not a very high class of professional,” continued Mr Glendining, “but these men have a very high opinion of their drawing capacity. “They ask for purses that are out of all proportion to their drawing capacity.
“Something must be done lo bring the purses down to more reasonable figures." The incoming president (Mr M. N. Hunt) said unfortunate experiences with professionals were anvxij? the causes for the decline. The conference was opened k Mr Justice Hutchison. ( The conference rejected a proposa. by a Hutt Valley delegate that administrators of boxing in New Zealand should be restricted to men who had boxed as amstcLT 5 themselves.
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Northern Advocate, 26 September 1949, Page 5
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171Less Support For Boxing Northern Advocate, 26 September 1949, Page 5
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