BOXING BOUTS OFF.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11935, 24 March 1914, Page 5

BOXING BOUTS OFF.

EXHIBITION TOURNEY GETS A

SETBACK

[By Telegraph —Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Monday

Twelve months ago it was announced that for Exhibition time six big boxing

J contests, each for £1000, would be promoted. The Boxing Association was not financially in. a position to undertake a programme se big, and it entered into XL contract "with Mr Bris Doyle, who was to act as the association's agent, find the. purses, and share with the association any profits which might accrue. Mr Doyle found certain barriers in the way. and transferred his agreement with the association to a Mr Mitchell. The latter paid Doyle £250 and committed himself to further expenditure of £400 in. arranging (through Tommy Burns) for engagements with McCoy, Wells. Morey, Hegarty and Daniels. The Xew Zealand Boxing Council had Leen inclined at"first to view with disx < favour the contract entered into, bur MitchelL .saw Me Tilly, of that body, and pointed out that all contests were to be absolutely controlled by the Northern Boxing Association, and with that explanation Mr McVilly had been satisfied, and a police permit for the fights 'had been granted.

Advice has now been received that /t]io police permit has been cancelled, Aelft urgent representations on the subJvjcct are now being made to the authorities in Wellington by Mitchell and by the association, which says it cannot understand why the cancellation lias been ordered.

Superintendent Kiely, when seen on the subject, said that when the permit was issued it was not known that the contract had been passed on from Doyle •to others, and that several people were :qow concerned who were really interested in the proposed tourney from a money-making point of view. Cancellation of the permit, the superintendent added, had been ordered from Wellington.