KING AS SPORTSMAN.
INTEREST SHOWN IN BOXING.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright
London, March 5. The National Sporting Club has accepted an offer from Jim Coffey, the Irish giant, to box Bombardier Wells for the Lonsdale Belt probably in Derby week.
Sporting Life says that the King will attend the Household Brigade's boxing tournament, at which prominent professionals have been asked to give exhibitions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15551, 7 March 1914, Page 7
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