BOXING RING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 18

BOXING RING

TWO PROFESSIONAL BOUTS CONTEST FOR MONDAY NEXT The return boxing bout between the rival welter-weights Bill Pluto and Billy Martin, scheduled for the Town Hall next Monday, has been arranged in response to widespread public interest. The decision at their first meeting aroused such controversy that it was felt that a return match would provide the most satisfactory and conclusive answer to all parties. The contest should be of a particularly high standard, since both fighters are confident that they can show greatly improved form, and with this object in view they are undergoing particularly keen and strenuous training programmes. Both Pluto and Martin impressed spectators during the weekend with their perfect physical condition and it is more than usually difficult to forecast the result of the match, which is certain to be highly spectacular. . * On the same programme is a contest of ten three-minute rounds between the heavy-weights Dennis and Jack Rainsford. Rainsford is well known to the Auckland public as a hard and experienced boxer with a powerful swinging punch. He claims the champion title of New South Wales and his record shows 98 wins and only 12 losses. Public interest, however, will be centred on the showing of Lindesay. He has an excellent record as an amateur, and, weighing 13st. 101b., he possesses a straight, hard punch that has earned for him t a great knock-out record and the amateur heavy-weight title of New Zealand and the Army. Navy and Air Force. His manager, Vernon Hogg, is confident that Lindesav can go the distance and predicts a bright future for the ex-amateur champion. The double-feature programme is of outstanding merit and seems bound to attract a larsie enthusiastic crowd. Young Gildo meets Billy Aitken, of Wellington, at Invercargill to-night, and the result will be eagerly anticipated.