1.
LTV FIGHT IN PROGRESS BETWEEN L. MATSEKE (NON-EUROPEAN) AND J.P. HEYNEKE (EUROPEAN)
0.07

2.
CU BOTH MEN FIGHTING
0.10

3.
LV DITTO
0.14

4.
SV PRESSMEN
0.17

5.
CU REFEREE HOLDS UP HAND OF WINNER J.P. HEYNEKE
0.21

6.
CU PRESSMEN WRITING
0.23

7.
LTV FIGHT IN PROGRESS BETWEEN MALDI (NON-EUROPEAN) AND "BULLER" MEYERS (EUROPEAN)
0.33

8.
SV BOTH MEN THROWING PUNCHES AT EACH OTHER
0.40

9.
CU PRESSMEN
0.42

10.
LV MALDI CHASES MEYERS BUT MISSES
0.55

11.
SV BOTH MEN SWAPPING PUNCHES
1.09

12.
CU PRESSMEN
1.11

13.
LV REFEREE HOLDING UP HAND OF WINNER MEYERS (EUROPEAN)
1.16



Initials DR/S/JH/BB


SPORT: BOXING
EDITORS: PRODUCTION NO. 8796/61 ALSO REFERS.

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Background: SOUTH AFRICAN EUROPEANS AND NON-EUROPEANS MET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PUBLIC AMATEUR BOXING WHEN THE SOUTH AFRICAN AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION HELD A MULTI-RACIAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS - OUTSIDE THE REPUBLIC - AT BULAWAYO, SOUTHERN RHODESIA ON DECEMBER 1 AND 2.

AFTER TRAINING SEPARATELY IN JOHANNESBURG, THE BOXERS BOARDED THE SAME TRAIN IN SEPARATE GROUPS FOR THE 500 MILE JOURNEY. BOXING BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND NON-EUROPEANS IS PROHIBITED WITHIN THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC.

EUROPEAN FIGHTERS DOMINATED THE TOURNAMENT, ONLY TWO COLOURED FIGHTERS REACHING THE FINALS. BOTH WERE BEATEN. IN THE FIRST BOUT OF THE TOURNAMENT, FLYWEIGHT LUCAS MATSEKE BECAME THE FIRST COLOURED SOUTH AFRICAN TO BEAT A SOUTH AFRICAN EUROPEAN IN AMATEUR BOXING, WHEN HE WON HIS SEMI-FINAL BOUT WITH GERT VAN JAARSVELDT ON POINTS. HE WAS BEATEN IN THE FINAL BY J.P. HEYNEKE, A WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN.

THE OTHER FINALS DEFEAT FOR THE NON-EUROPEANS WAS WHEN "BULLER" MEYERS, THE SOUTH AFRICAN EUROPEAN LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION BEAT DAVID MALDI, ON POINTS. THESE TWO FIGHTERS, THE BEST OF THEIR WEIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA, GAVE THE CROWD A TOP-OF-THE-BILL DISPLAY. MEYERS, AN OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALLIST, WON BY A VERY SMALL MARGIN.