BOXING.
JOHNNY LECKIE RETURNING. ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, August 0. The professional featherweight' boxing champion of New Zealand, Johnny Leckie, returned by ihe Ulimaroa after spending five months in Australia.
Boxing is very dead in Australia owing to poor matches and the industrial situation caused by strikes,” said Leckie. _ “Wrestling is also feeling this depression, and it takes a ’very/good match to. secure a big house.” Leckie’s first fight gave him a victory over Billy Grime, but he received only Two hard fights at Melbourne against Wilson gave Leckie two more decisions and £65 and £47, while lor his defeat of Pete Sarron, an American, he received £llO. His second meeting with Sarron ended in the American knocking him out, and he attributes this to lack of form due to over-training, Leckie has received offers to fight in America, but lie has not received par-! ticulars yet and has come to no decision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20789, 7 August 1929, Page 10
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157BOXING. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20789, 7 August 1929, Page 10
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