Samoa's golden gloves

What’s happened to Fiji’s boxing hopes? In the early Games her boxers collected more than their share of gold medals, but at Guam they didn’t get one gold, only three silvers.

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sprained left hand, Sogohk won the gold with his speciality, a left hook.

As was the case with several sports, host territory officials were criticised for their unpreparedness and ignorance of the sport.

The international juror for boxing, AIBA vice-president John Castle, of Sydney, was bitter because, he said,

Guam’s officials and referees had very little knowledge of amateur boxing.

He complained that a seminar held before the start, revealed almost complete ignorance of the amateur boxing rales, and warned that future boxing figures a ‘ < he Games would not be phoned by >he MBA unless a hard core of in ternational referees was present.

To keep events moving, Mr Castle satd hemade many which did not comply with mter national rules.

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through its president, Mr R. Afflague, was that Guam’s referees had licences ® r nW’ amateur boxing rules . • in the cycling, the most remote of all events, New Caledonia took five of the six golds; Tahiti took the sixth, Individual gold medallists were L.

Dubois, D. Cornaille and J. Testard, all of New Caledonia, and M. B. Du Pont, French Polynesia.

Milton le of French Polynesia (right) and Billy Forest (New Caledonia) trade punches in a bantamweight bout which le won on points.