GALAXY OF BOXING TALENT Heavyweight champion of Scotland and No. 1 sparring partner to Tommy : Farr, Corporal R. Scully, was introduced to a New Zealand soldier audience recently when a boxing contest was held between a New Zealand base ' camp team and an Imperial depot team. Seulley was not seen in action, but was 'one of the seconds to the British box- | ers. He trained with Tommy Farr 'before the latter's tights with Joe Louis iand Maurice Strickland. Two New j Zealand champions were also presented to the audience. They were R. jWithell, light-heu/y weight champion of the Dominion, and Empire Games representative, and C. Hurne-Miller, I New Zealand feather-weight champion ; and winner of the Jamieson Belt. Hurne-Miller won the 1941 featherJ weight championship of the 2nd N.Z.LJf-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 2
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