Islands Boxers In Action
p. 104 · Read in the full issue
SINCE Kitione Lave, of Tonga, caused a boxing sensation in New Zealand several months ago, outside interest in the potenti alities of Island boxers has been stimulated. Another Tongan, Nau fahu, who has never been knocked out by Lave, easily won his first
fight in Auckland on December 17 against Peter Day, a local.
Two American boxers who had been fighting in Australia, Freddie Dawson, light-weight, and Chappie Godfrey, heavy-weight, travelled by air to Tahiti a few days earlier tc fight, respectively, Ernest Ganivet and Charlie Cowan, in a contest at the Fei Pi stadium, Papeete.