The Archive · 1937

S'HAI FIGHT FARE FOR

THURSDAY — Very Well Balanced Card Announced by Sponsors

After a quiet spel! extending back three weeks, boxing will be revived next Thursday with the presentation, the Canidrome Gardens, of.an excellent eight-bout programme under the sponsorship of the Auditorium. The strength of the card lies not so much in the main event itself, a 1G-round tilt between Young Alde and George Levchenko, but in the interest of the matches in its six most important events.

Young Alde, the Filipino welter veteran who gave grand exhibitions against the hard-hitting Shelaeff, is generally favoured to out-Smart the clever. fast-stepping Lev-chen ko. It will be a battle between two keen-witted, ring-wise boxers, welters as fast on their feet as they re quick with their fists. The winner probably will meet Prime Vidal, ace Filipino welter, who sailed from Manila on Friday under contract to

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