Apart from their records—and they certainly are. impressive—a study of the sturdy follows depicted in the photogr e will should prove that the tories of, prowess of the 2nd Batt, The Lancashire Regt, have not prom {too much to sport-loving Shanghai, The sooner Mr, Billy Tingle gets in touch with them and Puts the pick of his amateurs into raining for the purpose of friend: Iy'battle in the ting, the beter anghai will be pieeed. Of the newcomers it can Ye said that they fare Just as keenly" anxious to get Iino notion' ax any here can be to sce then. hapu, la Cpl, Benetton the Principal amongst the team, per-
treme left of the front row), who Was amateur bantamweight. cham: pion of Great Britain in 1920 and 1031, and Imperial Services and Army Boxing Champion Same years, Cpl. Holeroft. was amateur champion of Wales, also at the bantam weight, in 1927. ale is Ketting on somewhat now, but still ix a more than usef Jack voyage out of the Neural very highly of them and the tea in general, but especially of Bennett lightweight boxer in a high /Sergt. Quilter, who was A y champion in 1990. Five other of the team were runners. up for Army championships during the period from 1928 to 1930. The Battalion unfortunately have lost a very good man in Cpl. Kennedy, a Tight-heavy, who wax Army champion in 1930 and in the previous year was Imperial Services and Army champion and runner-up for the Welsh aniateur championship. He has left the Service.
Collectively, the team's record ix still more impressive, In 1928 and 1929 they were runners-up for the championship, winning the! Noble Trophy, of which there is a miniature (the small figure in the [centre of the group of prizes), In the three succeeding' years' they learned off the same championship. ation therecial cup, went the historic (seen in the photograph). was the Inter-Allied Trophy offered after the war for competition amongst the Allied Services and it was won by Great Britain, In these three great years the Battalion also were Northern Comand champions, besides being the winners of the 8th Divisional and the 13th Infantry Brigade trophies, making a composite record which fully justifies the boxing heraldry which precedes the 2nd Batt. The East Lancashire Regt. wherever it 's new military friends re £0 highly capable of demonstrating the noble art, but they have many fully qualified box-. ing referees who azo ready to place their services at che disposal of any' who-may require them, As was the case with their comrades whom they'
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