BOXER INJURED
KNOCKED DOWN HV CAR (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Archie Hughes, the former New Zealand lightweight boxing champion, was knocked down «by a motor car when returning from a social late on Saturday night. The motorist did not stop. The cries of the injured man attracted attention, and he was conveyed by ambulance to hospital. Later he returned to the Freeman’s Bay Hotel, where he resides. His condition is satisfactory. He will be unable to meet the present holder, C. Bayne r, in the lightweight championship contest arranged for Blenheim on October 27.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 8
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