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New Guinea "Keen”
THEY’RE keen, but lack of facilities is the main draw back”. This is how Jimmy Carruthers, former bantamweight boxing champion of the world, sums up the sporting situation in Papua- New Guinea.
According to Carruthers, th e Territory ought to keep working hard at getting more sporting equip ment, at getting more facilities like clubhouses and sporting arenas, where fans and players can indulge their enthusiasms —and their talents.
Carruthers said the staging of the Woolley-Cross fight in Port Moresby in November (which Carruthers went to New Guinea to referee) was ar example of the way to get ahead.
The bout was the first inter-Tern tory championship, and was arranged by the Papuan Rugby League, with proceeds towards acquiring a new Another series of bouts is planned for early 1958, and Carruthers says there’s a possibility that he and ms
wife, Myra, will be there . . . this time on holiday.
“I liked New Guinea”, explains the ex-champ.