N.Z. BOXING COUNCIL CRITICISED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 7

N.Z. BOXING COUNCIL CRITICISED

. I THE JARVIS-GAN ZON BOUT. 5 j MARLBOROUGH ASSOCIATIONS i ATTITUDE. BLENHEIM, Aug. 20. | Part of the blame for the contretemps that arose in Christchurch prior to the Jarvis-Ganzon boxing match on Tuesday night, when the Marlborough Boxing Association intervened, was laid at the door of the New Zealand Boxing Council by Mr. J. McWhinney, president of the Marlborough Association, in a statement this morning, justifying the association’s action in threatening an injunction against th< Christohurch bout. He declared that the Now Zealand Council had no right to issue a permit for the fight in view of the fact that Jarvis had already signed up with the Marlborough Association to defend the lightweight title at Blenheim next Saturday. A clause in the title agreements prohibits a boxer engaging in a contest within seven days of Ihe bout. “If the New Zealand Council is going to issue permits under circumstances such as these, it will prove contrary to the welfare of boxing in the Dominion, particularly in the case of minor associations, and the sport will gradually disappear in New Zealand,” averred Mr. McWhinney.