BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 6

BOXING

MEETING TO-NIGHT A meeting of the Wanganui Boxing Association will be held in the Jockey Club’s rooms to night for the purpose of deciding whether or not the championships will be conducted on July 18 and 19. Supporters of the Marquis of Queensbury art, are requested to attend the meeting in full force in order that a new executive may be formed to run the championships. Should a new executive be formed they will have a credit of £l5O with which to start. When the old executive commenced operations the association was in debt to the extent of £6OO. Those who are desirous of seeing the sport carried on should attend to-night’s meeting without fail at 8.40 o’clock.

and so summoned the brigade.— Punch. A LOST BALL. Playing one day on the golf course I was weary and ill at ease; I couldn’t shoot from the fairway— Couldn’t drive from the tees I do not know what I was playing; Probably 9 or 10. And I’m sure the word I uttered Was certainly not Amen. But I struck one golf ball fairly,. Or so at the time it seemed, For the click it made was the music Of which I had often dreamed. It quieted pain and sorrow; It scattered gloom as it fled; For I felt that, once in a lifetime, I hadn’t lifted my head. It scurried away in the distance But—this is the part that’s tough— It swerved like a frightened rabbit To plunge in the blasted rough. I have sought, but I seek it vainly. I think ’twas a crying shame To lose the one ball I walloped The day I was off my game. It ma, be that death’s bright angel Will bring me a better score, And I know that only in heaven I shall see that ball once more.— —J udge.