BOXING
PALMER DEFEATS NICHOL (By Telegraph—Press Association) INVERCARGILL. This Day. Before a crowd of over 2000 Ambrose Palmer (Australia) and Rav Nicol. (South - | land) fought here on Saturday night. As | in his fight with Strickland Palmer had ! n fairly easy victory, his pace and cleverness giving him a decided advantage over the New Zealander, who relied on boring tactics and in-fighting to wear his opponent down. Palmer s ringcraft was too much for Nicol iix these exchanges, however, and generally the visitor emerged with honours. MID-CANTERBURY TITLES ASHBURTON, This Day. The Mid-Canterbury amateur boxing titles resulted: — Heavy-weight, R. Hawke defeated V. Lister by default; light-heavy, Lister heat E. Parsons; welter, L. Towers beat J. Miller; light, J. Kelly beat W. Prendergast; feather, S. Guthrie beat K. Kenney by default; bantams, S. Gutli- ; rie heat K. Kenney. | The boxing generally was of a high i standard.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 7
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145BOXING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 7
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