BOXING.
A DRAW. | J>y Telegraph -Press Association--Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Arsociation. SYDNEY, November 4. Mendies and Swift fought a. 2 *»-round j FK.VTHEFt-WEIGHT TITLE. M ELBOI'RXE, November J Ristuccia knocked out Km Baxter in 11u-r weight title. i Ristuccia. as an amateur, was defeated by c. Purdy. New Zealand; for the Australasian Amateur Bantam-weight Champ-ion-hip. at Sydney, in 1921. In the following year, it Hobart, in the leather-weigm. daps. Purdy again refeated the Victorian. Shortly afterwards Ristuccia joined the professional ranks and immediately won the Victorian bantam-weight championship. but was defeated in a contest, for the Australian championship. Realising i that he was out of his class he temporarily retired. Recently, he re-entered the ring as a. feather-weight, which is his proper Haas, ami scored a decisive victory over Jack Urieu, **ucv Australian champion.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17189, 5 November 1923, Page 3
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