BOXING NOTES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13091, 26 October 1935, Page 5

BOXING NOTES.

(By “Straight Left”).

The secretary of the Pahiatua Boxing t lub has been advised that Maurice O Brien, together with his trainer, Archie Leckie, will arrive m Pahiatua on Friday next. The middleweight professional champion oi >.e\v Zealand is reported to he in excellent fettle, and his partv is confident. Mr Jack Lnttrell, father of Vnl Who IS a resident or the Hawke’s Hay district, m a letter to the secretary this morning states that he has been engaged to go in O’Brien’s corner. The O’Brien crowd is leaving nothing to chance. All- Lnttrell is bringing the Hawke’s Bay amateur bantam champion, Bert McIvay, with him inj the hope that the cluo may he able to match him. Malcolm Howard, of Masterton, is matched with Russ Page, now of lahiatua, in a. four-round contest. Ibis should be a slashing fi..ht Norman Pratt will meet his old-time opponent, Henderson of Masterton. I hese two boys have had some four ding-dong scraps. There is very little between them, and the bout should be well worth seeing. One thing about the encounter—it will be of a. whirlwind nature and a dead Willing “go” from the clarion call to battle.

Bert () Keefe, of Palmerston -North, is bringing over three boys, \\ Li 1 Los Ingram, of Dnnnevirke, is sending a similar number, inoluding the crackcrjack lightweight.. Rote Lissette, who is matched with Jack Bradbury, of Hainan. This will he one of the very best scraps ever seen in the district.

I he executive will meet this evenh(g t‘> finalise matters in connection with the tournament.