BOXING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19738, 15 March 1926, Page 12

BOXING.

CONTESTS IN DUNEDIN. THURSDAY’S RECORD BILL. The new season of the Otago Boxing Association will be opened on Thursday evening at His Majesty’s Theatre, with an exceptionally fine double-bill attraction. The principal event will be the meeting of Reg. Trowern, the well-known young Auckland lightweight and Eugene Volaire, the versatile Frenchman, who has a list of fine performances throughout Australia and New Zealand. Trowern will be making his first appearance in Dunedin, and boxing cnlhusias's here are keen to see him in action. He recently defeated Purdy. A further feature will be the clash between the Otago boxer. Tommy Griffiths, and Bobby Le\yis. ex-featherweight champion of Victoria. Griffiths has an unbeaten record hi (he amateur ranks, and has won both his professional contests. Lewis with his ring e- >rienco and ahilitv as an in-fighter, is si,, a to extend Griffiths. The association lias arranged for a jazz band to be in attendance. The box plan will open tomorrow morning. CONTESTS IN SYDNEY. (Press Association—Rv Telegraph —l'opvrigiit.) SYDNEY, March 14. (Received March 14, at 5.5 p.m.) At the Stadium George Eagcl knocked out Frisco M'Gale in the sixteenth round. It was a heavy slogging match, in which the loser had the bettor of the earlier rounds, hut weakened later against the fierce onslaught of his opponent.