BOXING.
Cleverley may meet O’Malley at Waimate. (Special to the “ Star.”) WAIMATE. August 16. In the absence of the president (Mr G. E. Bray), the Mayor (Mr G. Dash) presided at a special general meeting of the Waimate Boxing Association. There was a fair attendance. The secretary (Mr R. Sullivan) read i correspondence from Alf Cleverley’s trainer in regard to a possible match with J. O’Malley. The date of September 12 was mentioned. Mr Dash mentioned that at a previous meeting it had been the consensus of opinion that the club should go very carefully, in view of the finances. Mr C. S. Hood said the fight would 1 have to be a Saturday open-air one. to get and accommodate the crowd, but if there was a fine day he was certain it would be a success. Patrons would be attracted from Oamaru, Timaru and the Hydro. With a fine day ; the bout would give a bright lining to the association’s finances. It was decided to stage the open-air fight if the ten guarantees could be obtained.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19310817.2.163
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 13
Word Count
177BOXING. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 13
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in