BOCUS BOXING CONTEST.
WOULD-BE LAW-BREAKERS HOAXED.
(Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 21. About 100 of Auckland’s leading citizens gathered with the utmost secrecy in the Drill Shed at ten o’clock this morning to witness a fistic exhibition, in which two prominent boxers were to take part. One of the prime movers, addressing those present, asked anyone not desiring to be identified with the contest to leave the building, as the affair was being conducted unknown to the police. All present, however, remained. A way having been made for the principals a leading citizen brought out two dummy figures, and pulling the strings, set them at each other. The spectators, convulsed with laughter, left the building hastily, realising that they had been badly hoaxed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2587, 23 August 1909, Page 4
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123BOCUS BOXING CONTEST. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2587, 23 August 1909, Page 4
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