BOXING.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 6

BOXING.

CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The first conference of the Boxing Centre under the boxing council rules opened this morning. Mr Irwin (Otago) moved to table all correspondence regarding the McGleary-McQuarrie dispute, stating that they would be well to have the atmosphere cleared. Mr Atack, on behalf of the council, stated that it could not be a party to producing the correspondence, because all the matters therein were entirely the business’ of the council. Further, he considered that as the matter had practically been disposed of it would be well to bury it. Mr F. J. Campbell (president) stated that the remit was not brought with a view -to furthering the appeal, but the full correspondence would be useful when the disqualified member of the Otago Association was heard in the afternoon. The motion was carried.

THE CASE FOR THE NORTH.

CHAMPIONS SHOULD MEET,

DUNEDIN, Tuesday. In reply to Mr Campbell, president of the Otago Boxing Association, Messrs Talbot (Wellington), Aldridge (Napier) and Heath (Hawke’s Bay), state that the attitude adopted was definitely notified from the outset, and the principle was supported by a resolution of the North Island conference, namely, that the North and South championships were eliminating contests with a view to bringing together the best two men in each class of contest for the New Zealand title. Arrangements hero provided not for championship matches, but for a series! of eliminations. There was no certainty that champions from the North would meet the champions from the South, through the fact that the matching was such as .to leave the possibility of ultimate final for the championship being contested between two men, neither of whom had been qualified for championship honours by winning an Island championship, or of a champion being called upon to meet a man from his own island whom he had previously defeated or who had even been defeated in the early stages' of Island eliminating contests. Such arrangement was obviously the object of the eliminating contests provided by Island championships. The North and South Associations concerned were not prepared to sacrifice their principles for such an arrangement. The statement concluded: ”lt is not true to say that tho men have been withdrawn. They are ready to compete under proper conditions. The statement made that Wellington and Hawke’s Bay imposed terms is misleading so far as it suggests that they endeavoured to obtain an advantage for their competitors. The Otago Association previously allowed it to bo understood that they supported the principle supported in the North, a# evidenced by wire.”