Island Boxers
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Top Left: —Soakai, Tonga’s heavyweight champion, now training for his return match with the Fijian heavyweight champion, Alfred. In the first match, in Suva, Soakai was beaten on points. (Photo by Hettig). o— Top Right:—Daunibau, a promising young Fijian heavyweight, who recently has been in Tonga, in matches in Nukualofa, Haapai and Vavau. Local Tongan as pirants have made a poor showing against him. (Photo by Hettig). o— Lower Left:—Sireli Saro, leading Fijian middleweight, who defeated Dave Swanson, at Vatukoula, Fiji, on Sep tember 27, in a hard-fought match. He thus won the Grant Belt. —o— Lower Right:—Francis Joseph, of Tavua, who de feated L. Smith, middle weight champion of Fiji, at Vatukoula, on September 27, by knockout in third round, and thus won the Theodore Belt. Mr. Theodore congratu lated Joseph on his clean, hard boxing. (Photos by Prasad’s Studios, Lautoka).