SUNDRY SPORTS.
LAWN TENNIS. THE DAVIS CUP TEAM. Melbourne, October 22. Dixon, Beamish, Parke and Levve England’s Davis Cup team, have :n----rived. They were entertained rt an official reception, Mr Weigall, president of the Victorian Tennis Assoc'.ition, presiding. Mr Fisher, me Prime Minister, proposed the health of the visitors. A number off.speecios were delivered, cordially welcoming the visitors, including one by Mr ■'/. Olliver, of New Zealand. , BOXING. ~ 1 London, .October 22. At the National Sporting Club, Digger Stanley. defeated Lafferty, the Scotch chain pi bn, on points in a twenty rounds tight for the Bantam Championship and £4OO. Mr. Bert Lowe, the champion heavyweight boxer of New Zealand, leaves Gisborne for Christchurch at the one of the month to meet Barney Ireland on the people’s day of the Canterbury Show. Mr. Lowe informed a reporter that his hand, injured during the late contest he took part in, is now all right, t
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 50, 23 October 1912, Page 5
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