The widest interest is being evinced in the boxing programme in aid of the Union of Russian Ex-Army and Navy Men, to be held at the Canidrome Gardens on Friday evening at 815, former Olympic and Italian national champion, and Chuck Haines, youthful and rugged 4th Marine, for the lightweight championship of China. This title bout will be the first ten-round main event presented since pre-"war" days in 1937, Opinion is widely divergent on the likely outcome, one large section of Shanghai's boxing community favouring the Italian, who has had 320 amateur and, professional bouts in his remarkable carteer, while another group of enthusiasts strongly supports the chances of the Amer jean, who is faster and possibly stronger and the harder hitter. Al. lessandri is a past master of the finer points of boxing, his in-fighting particularly being of the bigest order, factors which rank him a shade the favourite over Haines, whose most noteworthy achievement in recent months was his unexpected but nonetheless decisive victory over Harry Owens, the clever Royal Welch Fusiliers' feather-lightweight.
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