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NZ Truth, Issue 749, 25 October 1919, Page 8

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n?e Kutner is instructing Gis» borne. . ,Wally Evans backed out of a match with Tommy Heaney at Gisborne. .Modrich, the heavy-weight who did not impress Auckland fans, is going to Sydney. Vince Blackburn (Aus.) and Frank Daily (U.S.A.) provide the big thing at the Sydney Stadium this (Saturday) evening. On Saturday, November 1, Eddie Kelly will bump Ll'ew Edwards^ at light-weight limit, at the Sydney Stadium. This young American is expected to give the Welsh Wizard a tough argument. The tall young American, "Chuck". Wiggins, though only a middle-weight, was not at all scared when asked if h© would meet the Australian heavyweight champion, Albert Lloyd, and the pair will meet at the Sydney Sta-dium-on November 8. The Whangarei Boxing Association intends holding a carnival on November 21 next, and the star item will be a bout for the featherweight championship of New Zealand between * Lin Robinson and Billy Olliver. Tom Andrews, of Milwaukee, where they used to brew most of der lager m America, arrived m Sydney *by the Sonoma the other day m charge offive Yankee boxers, including "Chuck"* Wiggins, middle-weight, Eddie Kelly, light-.weight, Joe Mooney, feather, and Frank Daily and Barney Snyder, bantams. The Whangarei Boxing Association has appointed W. Palmer as instructor to the association, and great things are expected m the northern district. Palmer is the Englishman who met Barney 'lreland at the Auckland Town Hall some years AS°- Palmer is a returned soldier, aim is immensely popular with the boys up north. He was Regimental Sergeant-Major of the 11th N.A. Mounted Rifles m Egypt. Lin Robinson, of Gisborne, made good his bid for the feather-weight championship of the Dominion when he outpointed Gus Venn, of Taumar- ! unui, theiholder of the title, at Hamilton on Tuesday night of last week. Evidently, Lin will" have to keep on fighting and winning to retain the title. Jack Ladbury, who holds the bantamweight championship of New Zealand, is after the feather-weight title, and is willing to take on Lin Robinson. Ladbury stipulates nine stone. ringside, and will, at the proper moment unroll his wad. Ladbury is engaged on a coastal steamer, and can be communicated with, c/o "The Second." Mr. K. Kelly, secretary to the Whangarei Boxing Association, intimates to "The Second" that they have four classes up there, three country and

one Whangarei, the pupils receiving instruction numbering 60. "We hope," says Mr. Kelly, "to start classes m the Whangarei Primary School and High School within the next few days, permission having been granted by the respective governing bodies." Boxing In the schools should be compulsory, is the opinion of "The Second." Bill Bartlett writes from hla "little farm," Upper Manila, explaining that he was asked to go to Auckland also to Wanganui -to meet Albert Pooley, while an invitation was extended to him to meet Jack Heeney, at Glsborne, but owing to the fact that it is his busy timo on the farm Bill could not get away. Bill further declares that he is willing to meet Pooley at Greymouth. any old time. If h« meets either Pooley 'or Heeney at Greymouth, Bill promises to give a good account of himself, and predicts that whoever it is will have cause to remember the visit to Greymouth.