Stranglehold on Fijian Boxing
p. 91 · Read in the full issue
May Be Ended
SUVA, March 27.
FIRST sign of a direct move to loosen the stranglehold of “professionalism” on Fijian boxing is a proposal to form an Amateur Boxing Association as a corporate part of the Fiji Amateur Sports Association.
This development is believed to have originated at the Fiji Teachers’ Train ing College, which took a leading part in last year’s sudden establishment of amateur athletics and under the FASA, provided the manager-coach of Fiji’s British Empire Games team at Auckland recently as well as the first Fijian Games winner, Mataika Tuicakau.
The college has already staged an ex cellent amateur boxing programme be tween its own boxers and Fijian Army representatives. If the new amateur organisation materialises in place of the moribund Boxing and Wrestling Associa tion, one of its objectives will be to de velop a team of top-class Fijian boxers for the British Empire Games in Canada, in 1954.
Miss Norma Sullivan, of Bulolo, New Guinea, was in Sydney on leave in April.