BOXING NOTES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11831, 22 August 1931, Page 6

BOXING NOTES

(By “Straight Left.”)

Interest in the big boxing tournament to be held in the !• erosters’ f lail on Wednesday next, is extraordinarily keen anti a packed house is almost a certainty. A finer programme of fistic contests has never been presented to the public of Paliiatua, a. striking (and this is no pun) feature of the fray being the excellent fighting qualities of the competing talent.

Hostilities will commence with a. 3-round c - litest between Maurice lyersnaw and Christensen, of Feilding. This will be a spirited encounter. I oung Kershaw is a born boxer fast, aggressive and clever. For his •size and weight (about G. 9) the local b.y ii. tin, enter's opinion, would hold his own with any lad his .me

and weight in the country. At the recent Feilding t. urm.ment Christensen won a narrow victory over Norman Pratt, but on the previous occasions these two c lever vonnustc is met Norma n gained .. very" credits ble victory.

The next bout will be between Vivian Cosford and J. Cullottv, ~} Dannevirke. Young Co.siord is a stylish little boxer, fast and fairly .'lever and possessing a boxer's temperament—cool and heady. This contest will bo followed b.v an. encounter between Sol bun Walsh and X. Stevens (Feilding), the Manawatu flyweight champion. Stevens is fairlv well known in these parts, having' defeated “Mick” Cosford on one occasion the. local boy having a big disadvantage in the weights—and Ron Pratt twice. At the first time of meeting, young Pratt was drily a. novice, but nevertheless put . up a game fight. .1 lie second occasion on which tlm, rnet ".as at then redout Manawatu omunpipnsiups, when ©1 evens narrowly secured the, vorijurr,. The Feildiin lans are looking forward to Stevens' Walsh, who so far h-s not suffered a defeat. It, will he n great scra.p. Itowse has been matched with, Toye, of I eliding. These two bellieerents met. at Feilding, some three months ago, and a great contest was the result, chock full „f thrills from start to finish, and little: hetwi m them when the gong clanged. We m lor a great evening, brethren, but V ' ,l ‘ _/' ,e hall n omm in oil ate tlir c rowd ?