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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1955Vol. XXV, No. 7

Tahiti Boxers in Western Samoa

p. 35 · Read in the full issue

Photographs taken recently in Apia, [?]stern Samoa, when Mr. Gustav Spitz [?]w a team of Tahiti boxers to Apia to [?]t hat Territory’s best. The photos [?]w (left to right): Ceko of Samoa boring in on Charlie

Cowan, undefeated heavyweight champion of French Oceania. Cowan won by a TKO in the fourth round.

Santiao of Tahiti taking unorthodox evasion action from a right swing by Nile Kronfeld, middleweight champion of

Western Samoa. Kronfeld won on points.

Mr. Eugene Paul, Apia promoter greets Mr. Spitz at the ringside in Tivoli Theatre, Apia, before the start of the Tahiti v.

Western Samoa fights.

Photos: R. P. Rankin.