WOMEN BOXERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMEN BOXERS

FIGURES AND FIGHTING A woman who started boxing, to keep herself slim and fit is inadvertently responsible in starting a boom ra women boxers. Her name is Miss Patricia Cavendish, and when she advertised for girls who would care to attend a class she received no fewer than 50 replies. "Most of the women are trying to improve their figures," Miss Cavendish told a London reporter recently, out some of them are really anxious to learn so that they can hold their own against bag-snatellers." In the past, women who have taken up boxing have not been taken too seriously, but Miss Cavendish is in deadly earnest. " Please do not think that *1 have taken up boxing in any other than a serious spirit," she said. "I hope that I shall,be able to make a steady income as a professional fighter." Sports outfitters had the shock of their lives when a party of slim young women walked in and asked for a dozen pairs of boxing gloves.. They were the sparring partners of Miss Cavendish. No gloves to fit them could be found, so special pairs of a much smaller size than, the smallest the outfitter had in I stock had to be made.