BOXING RING
/ , HUGHES TO MEET FRASER
The light-weight boxing match between .Archie Hughes and Bobbie Fr.aser, of Australia, will be held at the Town Hall on March 19. Fraser is expected: Ho arrive in Auckland next Monday, and will train at one of the local gymnasiums. Walter Neuscl, the young German hcjtvy-woight boxer, who has become popular- with boxing followers in tho United filiates of America, had no difficulty, occopt, perhaps, that of keeping up Ihe pace in his sprinting after iiis man, in beating the giant, Ray ImjjcJ.iiticrc, in their recent ten round 5 ) lout in New York. It is reported that Iv-uscl chased the giant all round the ring, and landing almost at will, won every round. N*ousel weighed 13st. M'lb., and lnipolliticrc 17st. 81b. 1 bat never-ending controversy of boxer versus wrestler remains as complicated as ever. In the latest 'trial the , wrestler c/iine out on top. Dory Rochee, a barrel-chested Pennsylvania miner, took on Jack League, the irian who had Pnmo Camera on tho floor seven times, and pinned him in the second round of their mixed bout. G.l.J'., /.Epsopj. asks:—Would you . J o '' if-'George Cook, the Australian hen vy-wijight' boxer, met Camera and defeated him in four rounds? Camera met Cook/on two occasions. In 1930, Camera knocked out Cook in two rouiads .and in .1932 gained a similar .decision!'over Cook in four rounds:— Atiietieii Editor,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21743, 7 March 1934, Page 14
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