BOXER CLAIMS FOUL
REFUSAL TO CONTINUE RAYNER-REEKLE BOUT (Ptsr Press Acsoclalion.) BLENHEIM, last night. Forty-eight hours after making the featherweight limit for a title bout which did not eventuate Clarrie Rayner, Blenheim, to-night met Alf Reekie, of Australia, in a lightweight contest. The match was scheduled for 1!i rounds but ended unsatisfactorily in the third when Reekie claimed a foul, and the referee, Mr. P. O'Neill (Greymouth) ordered him to continue. When lie refused the referee awarded Rayner the bout. Art examining doctor said lie discoverer! no evidence of a foul.
LOUIS THE FAVOURITE
MAT.CH WITH SCHMELING (Else. Tel. Copyrieht—United .Pr«ss Aasn.) NEW YORK. June 17. The heavyweight boxers, S-ehmelinj: and Louis, rested to-day, having coin pleted their training for to-morrow '}> bout. Louis finished training nt 2021 b., and Schmoling at 10211). Louis remains the overwhelming favourite.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 7
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