BOXING
BOUTS IN AUSTRALIA VICTORY FOR LECKEE. [ Australian Press Assn. ] Received May 5, 5.5 p.m. MELBOURNE, May & The N.ew Zealand boxer, Johnny Leckie, outpointed Claude "Wilson. It was a good, hard-pegging iig'Z all the time, with Leckie never letting up fra minute. Leckie, how< ver, stopped a heavy punch in thp eighth round which nearly ended the contest. “PACIFIC COAST TIGER.” Received May 5, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY. May 5. At Sydney Staudium, Bobb La Salle, described as the Pacific Coast Tiger,” knocked out Karl Palm, of Germany, welter-weight. Thje fight went only three rounds. There was plenty of comedy but the German was raw and ungainly and never looked dangerous.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 106, 6 May 1929, Page 8
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