BOXING
RAYNER BEATS KNUC'.KEY
(Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, last might. In a professional boxing contest for die featherweight championship, wiair.e Raynor (Blenheim). 8.2 2 , retained the title agamst Leu Kuuekev (Hastings), 3.85, tiie latter being knocked out tour seconds before the end of the eighth round, and 1-ting unable to come hack for the ninth.
The rout was not a spectacular one, .he holder luting the challenger make the fight while waiting an opportunity :o land a knock-out. The house was a poor one.
VARNER DEFEATS lIALL (Received .Tan. 2, 10 n.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 1. At the Stadium, the American boxer, Claude Varner, 9.1?., defeated doe Hall, o.oAustralian featherweight. champion, on points, over 15 rounds.
The contest was very even. Varner forced the fight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18593, 2 January 1935, Page 8
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