BOXING

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 47

BOXING

NEW ZEALANDERS AT BRISBANE. BRISBANE, August 8. For til© first round of the amateur boxing championships, in the bantam •weight -contest, Baird (New Zealand) defeated Brown (Queensland) on points.. In the light-weight contest-,. Williams (New Zealand) beat Newiand (Queensland) on points; and in the middleweight contest, -Scanlan (Queensland) beat Nash (New Zealand) in the fourth round. The .finals take plaee on Wednesday.

1 BRISBANE, August 10. The final heats of the amateur boxing championships resulted as .follows -: Bantam weights—Cantwell (Queensland) heat Baird (New Zealand), on nomts. Light weights—Williams .(New Zealand) beat Gorman (New South Whiles) 'on points.

G. Williams has-been singularly successfully at various amateur boxing .competitions within-the past few weeks. He won the light-weight championship at the Wellington meeting -.last month, and the special medal presented .by Mr A. Laurenaon for the most .scientific boxer taking part therein. A .few days later Williams annexed the New Zealand lighcweight championship at Dunedin. and secured the -trophy, valued at fifteen guineas, presented by Mr Richard'll. Fox, of New York. No mention is mrade in the cablegram of the colonial representative for featherweiglit:hononrsat±he Australasian meeting, and it is presumed -he failed to draw the requisite weight. A similar misfortune befell Parker, of .Dunedin, when the New Zealand representatives journeyed to Sydney in 1903. Gosling, the feather-weight champion of Wellington, was -sent over to the Brisbane meeting by the local Boxing .Association, but doubts were expressed as to his being eligible to compete. It is ; possible that he too, was unable to scale the standard weight.

The recent championship meeting of the Otago Centre of the Amateur Boxing Association resulted in a credit balance© of .£B9 4s 3d.