BOXING NOTES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13174, 5 February 1936, Page 5

BOXING NOTES.

By “Straight Left.” An extraordinary demand for rescrved seats—unprecedented vin the history of the Pahiatua Boxing Club has set in for the Nic-ol—Reeve contest, which eventuates in the Drill Hall <>n Friday week next. Never in the boxing annals of this district has so much interest been evinced in a scrap and it is quite safe* to assert that the halt—large ml all as it is—will not be sufficiently commodious to accommodate the crowd. Nicol is reported to be in st-< i. fettle for the big encounter and quietly confident. He is due to arrive in Pa hi at ua on Thursday, Ijqth inst., the day preceding the fi#t, while young Henry Stock, the shim* and classy Auckland ban-tam-wVight, will grace the town with his athletic ]vrt senc-e on Wednesday m xt. His opponent. Joe Collins tiit* Manawatu bantam champion, is ■ veritable packet of fireworks, and i oves with tht* speed and velocity * ; la>t Sunday's gale. There will be -fix preliminaries in all, the very !>ost, in every single respect, that has ever been staged in this district. and that is saving a good deal. Says the "New Zealand Sporting One of the most active boxing organisation > in the Dominion at the t resent time is the Pahiatua Assoiation. ami since it divorced itsjelr i M»m affiliation w ith Manawatu, it lias not let the* grass grow under its feet. On the* night of Pahiatua Show day (February Ray Nicol, the Ohai miner, will 'defend his lightheavyweight crown against the improving Harold Reeve, of Pahiatua. Reeve, a dairy factory worker, * njoys immense popularity with the boxing fans in the Bush district, and * is Id- good fortune to be* working the*, aegis of an Association that is packed with enthusiasts whose on< aim is to fire public interest in the- fistic* sport. Mr .T. A. Walsh. tli< Pahiatua secretary, call'd on "Sporting Life/" this week and stated that the coming match was e • \ - ’ t • • present being discussed from Napier to the* Wairarapa Lake, and a packed-out house was assured. Tin* mc*n arc l fighting for a €-‘>o purse, and Nicol. as holder. is being allowed expenses. Though Nicol is noted /or his ngged aggressiveness. Reeve has L’.-d inguished himself this season for the artistry of his attack, and his : oed ma\* prove* a little too good for Sica 1. Two top-linn preliminaries in a i f gramme of first-class bouts will fid sp-f-c to the* programme. \Y. Withcy. « i Wellington, has been natchc-d against M. Spring, a local did with a hefty punch whom the - oci .tion has found hard to match. I h<» other w ill bo between H. Stock, 'h« An' k lancl bantam champion, and *lo«* ('fil'ins. who holds a similar itio in Manawatu. there six Mild not be much doubt ■-' iit the- Pahiatua body paying its ua V with such an attractive bill of