PROFESSIONAL BOXING
ADAMS DEFEATS PARKES IBT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] G'HRISTCHURCH, Monday In a professional boxing contest at Ashburton Les Adams beat "Tiger" Parkes. The referee stopped the bout in the eighth round because -of repeated infringements by Parkes. GISBORNE BOUT DEFEAT OF MARSHALL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORNE, Monday After a fight classed as the best staged since the days of Tom Heeney, Davis, Hastings, beat Marshall, Gisborne, by a technical knock-out in the eighth round last night. The contestants took and gave an extraordinary amount of punishment. It was anybody's fight until Davis got in a per-fectly-timed right hand blow to the jaw late in the eighth round. Marshall was floored, but rose three times for more, the referee finally stopping the. contest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23057, 7 June 1938, Page 13
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