N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 6

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS

BOXING ASPIRANTS THREE FROM POVERTY BAY McKAY, ALLEN, WAUGH Three amateur boxing champions of Poverty Bay are to be nominated for the New Zealand championship tournament, to be held at Blenheim next week, and the trio, under the management of Mr, Arthur Heeney, will journey south on Sunday or Monday, if the finances for the journey can be” arranged by the Gisborne association. Mr, Arthur Heeney will be coach as well as manager to the team, and will also act as delegate at the annual conference of the New Zealand Boxing Association, held during the currency of the tournament. The three nominations decided on. by the Gisborne association’s executive are those of Billy McKay, bantamweight, A. Waugh, lightweight, and F. Allen, welterweight. McKay had experience of the national tournament last year, when he was runner-up in his class, but the other two will be making their first appearance in the lists as aspirants for Dominion championships. Allen and Waugh have done a lot of fighting as amateurs, however, and though it is a little too much to hope that either will annex a title’ for. Poverty Bay, they should be able to give good accounts of themselves at Blenheim. Poverty Bay’s best hope certainly rests on Billy McKay, who. has trained consistently and has improved since last year’s tournament. If he meets the same quality as he did in 1932, he should go close to securing the championship of his class. The finances of the Gisborne Boxing Association suffered a severe reverse last evening, when owing to the unpropitious weather, the district championship tournament was staged before a thin house. The takings were far short of the actual outlay in expenses, and the deficit on the tournament made a bad hole in the small accumulated credit of the association. Private assistance with the finances of the southern trip was being sought to-day, however, with fair hopes of success. One reason for the keenness of the association officials in the matter of sending a team to the championship tournament at Blenheim is that Gisborne has an application to make to the New Zealand conference for the allocation of next year’s championships to this centre. It is considered that there is a good chance of securing the 1934 tournament, but if Gisborne were to drop out of the 1933 fixture, the odds would.. swing against the district application, without doubt.

CANTERBURY REPRESENTATIVES

CPw Press .Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. j » The following have been selected to represent Canterbury at the New Zealand amateur boxing championships at Blenheim on September 7,8, and 9:— Featherweights.—N. Fisher and A. J. Hawes. Welterweight.—Don Stirling. Middleweight.—H. G. Forward. Light-heavy and heavyweights.—A. J. Bourns. . * ’