FIFTEEN-ROUND CONTEST.
(Faou Ottb Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, September 30. The 15-round professional boxing contest Lctween A. Leekie and J. Clarke, held in the Opera House this evening, resulted in a decision in favour of the latter, which, by the way, did not meet with the fullest approval of the audience. The contest was a slogging match from start to finish, marked hy a lack of variety in tactics and an entire absence of footwork. Leekie gained points in the first three or four rounds by his vigorous leading, but Clarke, aided by an awkward smother and a fair knowled^j of in-fighting, was accounted the cleverer boxer.
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Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 36
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106FIFTEEN-ROUND CONTEST. Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 36
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