BOXING
OFFERS TO PLUTO THREE MATCHES WAIT TWO WITH Me .MAI lON The Sydney welterweight. Hill I’luiohas received three otters tor mulches under associations other than the Gisborne Boxing Association, winch arranged for bis visit to New Zealand, and lias first call on bis services. Both the Feilding anil Palmerston North associations want I’luio to meet .McMahon under their auspices, anil one or the other of these matches almost ccrtainlv will figure in the Sydney man’s programme. Jack McMahon was the one New Zealander to score a win over Cvril Pluto, the brother of Bill I’luto. and the latter is anxious to try his hand at evening nip the balance on behalf of his family. It is a little unfortunate that two of the three matches offered to Pluto—the third offer is from the Christchurch association —should fall on the same date. However, an adjustment is likely to ho arranged, so that Pluto may accept all three offers. The Gisborne association is staging the l'luto-Doii Stirling bout on Wednesday next, and will then release the Sydney man for a time to enable him to tour the Dominion and accept, such matches as’ may be offering; Later Pluto will fight a third contest in Gisborne, before returning home to Australia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19152, 22 October 1936, Page 16
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