PALMERSTON'S EVENING

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 12

PALMERSTON'S EVENING

Griffiths Will Endeavor To Outspeed McAlister

The Manawatu Association refused to allow Boxing Night to go by without staging a tourney.

A NUMBER of fights were offering, and m deciding on Billy McAlister and Tommy Griffiths the executive probably selected the best. , McAlister has had one fight, for a very clear-cut victory. When he went after Taylor at Wellington all present reached for their hats. Billy will not be able to put Griffiths away with such ease. Griffiths is essentially a boxer and he has the speed that makes a , straight eight look like it sluggard. Somewhere m the vicinity of McAlister's weight, height and poundage, he will endeavor to outspeed the visitor. Going on the display Mac gave at Wellington,. Griffiths has a fair show of being m the picture for a long portion of the journey. Not a great deal has been seen of Tommy since he went through that programme with Barber and Co. at Dunedin, but the few .that have seen him work aay that he is many rerrioves above the Griffiths of old. Since his fight with Taylor, McAlister has improved a lot, and he now reckons he is thoroughly acclimatised- — even to our southerlies. The outing had a beneficial effect, and there is now a keenness about him which was totally lacking last up. The association ls never afraid to go out of the town for amateur bouts, and for the tourney it has been arranged for Cyril Hurne, bantam cham-

pion of New Zealand, to meet Ted Oxley, the Pahiatua featherweight. Oxley is deservedly popular m Paimerston, and many will be keen to see how he fares against Hurne. There will be several other preliminaries, all of which will be of high standard.

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