BOXING BROADCASTS.

Southland Times, Issue 22333, 26 May 1934, Page 7

BOXING BROADCASTS.

To the Editor. Sir, —There appears in your issue of the 24th instant two letters dealing with a dispute between the Southland Radio Club and the Southland Boxing Association, on the question of an announcer for the Boxing Association’s professional bouts. I understand the Boxing Association has already intimated its willingness to allow the broadcast of bouts with the proviso that it be permitted to appoint its own announcer. This seems quite a fair and reasonable request, but for some inexplicable reason the Radio Club will not agree to this course. We have often heard of the man who “looked a gift horse in the mouth” and we are again having this brought under our notice by the attitude of the Radio Club towards the Boxing Association. The question as to whether Mr Stalker is a good or bad announcer in my opinion should be disregarded, the main point being that the Boxing Association has put up a reasonable proposition, and if only in the interests of listeners alone, the Radio Club should, I think, drop the schoolboy attitude, come down off the high horse, and endeavour to effect a settlement of the dispute in a reasonable and businesslike way.—l am, etc. “ONYX.”