Boxing In South Seas.
p. 16 · Read in the full issue
Apia, Aug. 20.
FOR the first time in Samoa, articles have been signed for a ten-round boxing bout between William (“Bull”) Scanlon and Rudolf (“Red”) David, to take place on August 31, at Tifaga Play House.
The contest, under the somewhat high-sounding caption, “The Champion ship of the South Seas,” will be for the corresponding title and a belt donated by Mr. T. H. Carruthers. The winner will be given a purse of £40, and the loser £20. Scanlon claims to have been the “leading heavyweight of the Hawaiian Islands.” David has no former experience of boxing.
The promoters, the Tifaga Playhouse Company, are doing their best to evoke public interest in the sport of boxing.
The Tongan Parliament, in August, passed the Boxing Matches Regula tion Act, under which no boxing or wrestling match may take place in the Kingdom except under strict regula tion and subject to payment of tees.