The Archive · 1937

Both Forces Now Have Strong Stables

Us. Asiatic Fleet boxers will square off with the fighting Marines of the Second Brigade next Tuesday night at the Canidrome, beginning at 8 p.m. This announcement, the most important news that the sporting ears of Shanghai have heard since the outbreak of hostilities, was made yesterday afternoon from the U.S.S. Augusta.

The purely amateur policy of the Asiatic Fleet, has prevented Shanghai's boxing public from seeing the fighting bluejackets of the Augusta in action since the reopening of the Canidrome, but ihe memory of the great fights put on by Chick Jarboe and Butch Ausborn with Giometti last spring and, the stirring battles of last year's Walla Walla programme, created a demand to see more of the champions of the Fleet and of the Marine

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