BOXING
GRIFFITHS DEFEATS GILLESPIE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association)
DUNEDIN, 14th March
On Saturday evening Tommy Griffiths, bent Norman Gillespie of Australia, in a fifteen round contest for a purse of £l5O offered by the Otago Boxing Association.
The fight was closely contested and went the full distance.
From the outset Griffiths proved himself the speedier and more elusive boxer, and in the opening rounds he did most of the leading.
Gillespie is a likeable boxer who punches hard and straight, but was too slow for the Dtmedin lad, who made him miss badly throughout.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 April 1928, Page 2
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