Well Overseas

[?]slands Boxers Do Well Overseas

TONGAN light-heavyweight boxer

Johnny Halafihi defeated Syd ney boxer Bruce Farthing by a chnical knock-out at an Auckland ntest on December 8.

The fight ended at the end of the cth round. Both boxers struck ie another after the bell, Halafihi :iking Farthing a light blow, and irthing replying with two blows, ilafihi was appealing to the teree when Farthing suddenly col- Dsed.

I’he collapse was not attributed the after-bell blow, but to the mulative effect of some heavy nishment inflicted by Halafihi ring the contest, though Farth l’s trainer tried to claim a foul, 3 referee ruling against this. ?rom the point of view of the aple back home in Tonga, the »st unsatisfactory feature of the ht was that it was not broad -5t by Radio NZ due t® a dispute ?r fees. fh e broadcasting authorities rmally pay £l2/10/- for broadcast hts on a boxing contest. The unoters claimed that this was an ;nt of special interest and wanted higher fee. The broadcasting >ple disagreed—and the Tongan is ground their teeth and waited the next New Zealand news letin which gave the results only. ?he fight was attended by Prince ngi, then in Auckland.

N the other side of the world, Kitione Lave, who was the first to display the prowess of Tongan :ers, had a very unpopular defeat a contest with former British ivy weight champion, Jack rdner, at Birmingham, UK.

Iveryone except the referee )eared to be unanimous that re was the clear winner of this it which went the full ten nds. Most English boxing writers sidered that Lave had given rdner “his worst beating ever”

I were at a complete loss to lerstand how the decision could e been given against the Tongan. ondon’s Daily Telegraph said e crowd set up a storm of booing t might have been heard so far ly as Lave’s pleasant Friendly mds.” ►ther papers considered that r e’s boxing skill has been greatly ierrated and that he is a top fighter.

Lan Boxer For Nz Fight

3XING trainer Mr. Ned Henne berry, of Auckland, back from a visit to Fiji in December, said t the Fiji boxer Tom Hini was n to go to New Zealand to it Johnny Halafihi, of Tonga,

and Joveci Bau, of Fiji, now fight ing in New Zealand.

Hini has won 15 out of 19 fights contested in Fiji.