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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 5 (August 2, 1937)

A Famous Boxing Tournament

A Famous Boxing Tournament.

The “Golden Gloves” boxing tournament, organised and staged by the “Chicago Tribune” is America's most amazing amateur boxing tournament. Thousands of young American boxers enter, each year, for this tournament and the winners receive miniature golden boxing gloves. Do they treasure these symbols of victory? Ask Joe Louis, present-day world's heavyweight boxing champion.

While employed at the Ford Motor works in Chicago, Louis entered the Golden Gloves tourney. It was the first stage of a boxing career full of sensation, incident and riches, but Louis still retains his “golden glooves”—his mascots!

Although boxing is controlled in America by the Amateur Athletic Union dispensation is granted to reputable newspapers who stage tourneys. International teams are invited annually, the latest being a European team including two Olympic champions. The Chicago boxers won four bouts and the European boxers a like number. A Chicago negro defeated the Olympic heavyweight champion.

The New Zealand Boxing Association might take a leaf from the American system and arrange for something of a similar nature being staged in New Zealand.