BOXING
- aifeBORNE TOURNEY SATURDAY’S PRO. BOUT The ’Gisborne Boxing Association will holdits'..first“tournament for the 1935-36 season next; Saturday evening, and u splendid programme has been arranged. The professional contest will he fought between the well-known local boxer, Watty Robertson, and Frank Hutchins, Eltham. Robertson has always put up a. good showing in contests here, and he has trained assiduously for .this bout as there are plenty of other matches offering for the winner.’ ■ Frank Hutchins reached the top rung of the ladder in the amateur ranks and was an outstanding, figure in recent years at Dominion championships. ‘Although -a boxer of no mean ability,, it was Hutchins’ punching powers that brought him to the liotice of Mr Alan Maxwell, the .well-known authority, upon whose advice a professional career was decided on.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 12
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131BOXING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 12
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