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SPORT OF BOXING SEARCH FOR REASON PA WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. What is the cause of the dwindling public support for boxing? This question was posed by the retiring president of the New Zealand Boxing Association, Mr R. Stuart Glendining, at the annual conference of the association to-day. Throughout New Zealand, said Mr Glendining, associations had been fighting a downhill struggle, and a remedy for the decline had to be sought. “ We have not a very high class of professional,” continued Mr Glendining, “ but these men have a very high opinion of their drawing capacity. They ask for purses that are out of all proportion to their drawing capacity. Soniething must- be done to bring the purses down to more reasonablb figures.” The incoming president, Mr H. N. Hunt, said that unfortunate experiences with professionals were among the causes for the decline. The conference, which was opened by Mr Justice Hutchison, rejected a proposal by the Hutt Valley delegate that the administrators of boxing in New Zealand should be restricted to men who had boxed as amateurs themselves.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27196, 27 September 1949, Page 8
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179SUPPORT DECLINING Otago Daily Times, Issue 27196, 27 September 1949, Page 8
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