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TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMME.

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WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

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Roxing fans are well entered for te-night when the Hong Kong Boxing Association have arranged 45. rounds of hard hitting fisticuffs at the Theatre Royal

The chief draw will be the fight between A. B. Bennett of H.M.S. Witherington and Gunner Hornsey, H.M.S." Argus. These two will

Murphy v. Cox." Two little game youngsters, Boy Murphy and Boy Cox, both of Hand- |quarter's Wings, then took the ring. These two lads, displayed a better style than their older contestants, force behind their punches, although they did not pack sufficient force behind their punches, Murphy's round.

In the second round Murphy was doing all the attacking, but his op- ponent's guards were impenetrable, Towards the end Murphy scored. Murphy's round

Murphy had the best throughout the last round and came out an easy winner.

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Scarborough . Dawson, L/C. Dawson was disqualified to- meet in a fifteen round contest forwards the end of the first round, although he was leading on points. the welterweight championship of Ho was in every way a better man

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Bennett gave a very good account of himself last year when he met the Inte Stoker Morris. Although he lest the fight on points. there was nevertheless a certain amount of controversy as to who had won, Bennett, as far as I could re- member, is a fast and hard bitter and has much ringeruft behind him.

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DEMOCRACY IN THE BALANCE.

OREGON ORATORS AT THE Y.M.O.A

AN INTERESTING DEBATE.

The lounge of the YM.C.A, at Kowloon as

Alled last evening

with those who had come to hear the Oregon Debating Team defend

the cause of democracy, the ques-; tion for debate being "Is Demo- eracy a Failure ?""

The case against Democracy was opened by the Rev. J. Horace Johnston. Democracy, he declared, had been dead since the time of Grecce and Rome, but the last 100 years had seen its renascence. If A man was not Riddell, Lanahan,

A democrat at A fast and exciting bout with twenty he had no heart, but if he like the proverbial wild bull. The Riddell, charging at his opponent

was one at thirty he had no head. fight, however, came to an unex-began by admitting that all govern- Mr. B. McCrakey, of Oregon, pected end, when Riddell got a bleeding nose. and gave up to ments are bad, but Democracy was the best form of bad government. Mr. McCrasker was an enthusiast for the Government of the United States.

Lenahan.

Clark r. Walls.

This bout opened with Clark fighting cautiously. Walls was doing all the attacking, but got the worst of the exchanges.

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Mr. P. Sands maintained that the best type of popular Government was a Commonwealth, the bad type

Rapid exchanges in the second round, but Clark proved a stone wall to Walls. Clark's round. the third round and paid up his enthusiastic and intelligent Parlia Walls picked up considerably in democracy. Democracy demanded debts with something over. He won the decision by a small margin.

mentary government and the aver age citizen was politically lazy. The opening bout in the second w. H. Hempstead admitted that Supporting the opposition, Mr. moiety was between Hazeltine and Democracy had many faults, but in Stevens. Both men were full of

Hazeltine Stevens.

at it hammer and tongs and dispep and went at each other with giving internal stability and ex- vigour. Stevens was more aggres-ternal protection it was second to sive and scored successively to the none. It had removed once and for face and body. Stevens' round, all the despotism of feudalism.

Mr. T. J. Price challenged the last speaker. maintaining that Democracy failed when it had to defend itself, for a democratic army was Mussolini was a symbol of disap- manifest absurdity.

pointed Democracy, while the stability of Great Britain depended upon the King behind a democratic government.

From talks I had with both men, I was told that there would be no hall measure. They will fight to the last and not allow a draw, One of them is going to get the belt.

There will also be five other six round contests in various weights, and some of the contestants are well-known to the fans of this Colony.

BIC NOISE" DUNCAN.

Bath men were still fighting with force in the third round, and Stevens, who is an old stager, sent down several telling punches to the face. Later he connected one to the solar plexus. He won a popular.de cision.

Boyer v. Murray..

Boyer had the best of the first round in this fight. He had the advantage in punch and appeared to possess more rugcraft,

Murray was again out-fought in the second round. Boyer with well- timed punches sent him to the board twice..

Bover danced around his man and bave disposed of him by the k.. had his way all through. He could route had he chose, but he, however,

Frame . Woolley,

Cpl. Donald Duncan, R... the "Ing noise" of Shanghai will be in the Colony in a week or so. Duncan, according to the Shang-was satisfied with a decision. hai papers, had not given a fight away to any one whom he had met These two contestants staged the He will fight in Hong Kong as most interesting bout of, the even- the Boxing Association has found a ing. Both men. went strongly and match for him.

kept at it till the gong sounded. The There will also be another 6 first round was a toe-to-toe fight, round contest to-night between There were no guards and the fight- leading Seaman Hall of H.M.S. ers simply took and gave away all Titania and A. B. Coombes of what they could. H.M.S. ivern.

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The second round was a replica of the first. Frame, however, man aged to tap away to the face and K.OS.B.'S BOXING TOURNA-made, Woolley groggy.

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Frame won the fight, and Woolley was given an ovation for being a good loser, the judge remarking that

INTERESTING NOVICES BOUTS. both men were even in many ways.

COMING COMPETITION WITH H.M.S.ARGUS."

There was a very good attendance last night at the Murray Barracks when the annual Inter-Company Boxing Tournament of the and K.O.S.B. was held.

Among the Senior Officers pre- sent were Lieut.-Colonel L T Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O., Major G. M. H. Ogilvy, Major B. C. Lake, D.S.O., Capt. A. G. Dobbie and others.

Gardner v. McCartney. Honours were abant even in the first round of this bout. Both men were raw, full of pep.

Gardner was slightly leading at the end of the second round, and after much skipping here and there; towards the end of the last round. he "knocked out McCartney almost

Byrner. Martin.

There was nothing much to choose between the two fighters. Both men did not possess much ringeraft, and although Byrne had the advan- tage in weight of about one stone, he could not do any damage to his opponent. Both men fought to draw.

The referee was Major Campbell, D.S.O., M.C. (R.A.M.C.).

Judges:Liepts, Shillington, Ker|| and Welch.

Time-keeper:-Lieut. Scott-Elliot.

Sergt. Seamman v. Pts. Champelovier. Both men were willing to mix and some really hard slogging was seen. Even round.

Scammen showed up better in the second round and had his man driven to the ropes on several occa- sions. Champelovier's seconds threw up the sponge just at the end of the 2nd round.

McGuire v. Porter,

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McGill". Carney.

the last but one bout, and although Corpi, McGill met Pte. Carney in

the fight was not, in itself very ex- citing, McGill, however, was knock- ed out by an upper cut to the jaw towards the end of the first round.

Higga". Atmot.

The Inst bout of the evening was between Pte. Higga and L-Corpl. Armet. These two youngsters fought like old-timers. Higgs was parti- cularly impressive and possessed much speed. He won the first rounda with ease. He should make a good" boxer with a little more training. Higgs. won the fight on points.

Prize Distribution,

Pte. McGuire opened the bout with a few soft taps which had the effect of sending his mar to the board on two occasions: In the middle of the

In giving away the prizes to the round, he sent Porter down for the winners and runners-up, Lieut. Col. full count. A very disappinting L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O., thank fight.

:. ed the Committed for arranging the Spalding". Jenkins.

programme. He said that two or Pte. Spalding, of "D" Company, three tournaments had been held then shook hands with L/C. Jenkins, previously and although they were of Headquarter Wings. Both men not successful that was not the fault opened cautiously and there were of the Committes but only because. mare misses than actual "bulls." of lack of experience. At the Com- The second round was also a mands' Sport held last Tuesday, it rather tame affair, but towards the was decided also to hold a Com- end, Jenkins made an effort to mands' Boxing Tournament which score with his left, but was un would probably take place on successful

February 15th. A silver cup would, The third round saw both men at it was hoped, be presented to the it hammer and tongs, and Spalding Regiment winning the highest took the lead from the commence-aggregate pointa

ment. Spalding landed a neat upper On Fridey, at the Murray Bar-

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Mr. A: Thompson, the third of the Oregon speakers, stated that Democracy was the ideal of Chris- tian faith; yet, it had been said that a State run in accordance with the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. would be bankrupt in a week,

of the debate very keenly, and The audience followed the course thoroughly appreciated" the fashes of humour which enlivened the epeeches.

HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.

The following health bulletin has been issued for the week ending November 26th:

Plague.

3 cases at Alexandria (3 deaths).

At Bassein 3 deaths.

-At Rangoon a deaths.

1 case at Colombo.

At Macassar I death.

Cholera.

At Calcutta 106 death. At Madras 1 death. At Rangoon 2 deaths. At Tuticoria 7 deathe. At Singapore 2 deaths. At Batavia deaths.

Small-pox.

casc at Basrah (1 death). 4 cases at Bombay (I death). 4 cases at Calcutta (2 deaths). 2 cases at Madras (2 deathe).

5 cases at Rangoon (1 death). 45 cases at Tuticorin (1 death)...

A Balikpapam 1 death.

29 cases at Banjarmasin (1 death),

At Samarinda 1 death 1 case at Dairen.

3 cases at Sourabaya.

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