PROFESSIONAL BOXING
x TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —I have heard that the amount divided between M'Ewan and Lowe, the two contestants in the professional fight held in your city this week, was a paltry £SO. Maybe lam mistaken, and would be glad to _be corrected by the Otago Boxing Association. The house. I understand, was packed. Would the Otago Boxing Association publish a balance sheet on the evening’s working for, the benefit of both the boxers and the public? —I am, etc,, Sodthxander, [As the contest was one for a championship the Boxing Association had to guarantee a purse of £SO. 4 This sum was practically the amount realised by the association after the payment of expenses, and was divided on a 60—40 per cent, basis.— Ed. O.D.T.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 7
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