In 'Boxing' 16th April 1910, it says this fight took place on 11th April, also the Moir/Cripps and Summers/Meneghan fights were on the undercard.
Boxrec has 7th April for the burns fights, 6th April for the Summers fight and 23rd Feb for the Moir fights, It's says the article it was originally meant to take place on the 28th March and was moved back. Moir didn't know anything about Cripps so it couldn't have been a rematch.
Can anyone shed any more light onto this?
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definitely happened on the 11th....Australian Newspaper archives http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article ... nYear%3A04
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Moir fight definitely happened on said date but he won according to every aussie newspaper at the time
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summers fight 6th april http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article ... nYear%3A04
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Thanks Stac 
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Check your copy of 'Boxing' again. Mine says Summers/Mehegan was on 6th April .... not on the undercard of Burns/Lang.kochamp wrote:In 'Boxing' 16th April 1910, it says this fight took place on 11th April, also the Moir/Cripps and Summers/Meneghan fights were on the undercard.
Boxrec has 7th April for the burns fights, 6th April for the Summers fight and 23rd Feb for the Moir fights, It's says the article it was originally meant to take place on the 28th March and was moved back. Moir didn't know anything about Cripps so it couldn't have been a rematch.
Can anyone shed any more light onto this?
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If you go back a few pages in that issue (pages 132 and 133), there is a picture of Moir saying that he is back in London. If he fought in Australia on 11th April there is no way he is back in London prior to the 16th April. I should imagine the travel time between Australia and London in 1910 was weeks rather than days.kochamp wrote:In 'Boxing' 16th April 1910, it says this fight took place on 11th April, also the Moir/Cripps and Summers/Meneghan fights were on the undercard.
Boxrec has 7th April for the burns fights, 6th April for the Summers fight and 23rd Feb for the Moir fights, It's says the article it was originally meant to take place on the 28th March and was moved back. Moir didn't know anything about Cripps so it couldn't have been a rematch.
Can anyone shed any more light onto this?
It also says he was wanting to fight Burns but was only offered the loser of the Burns/Lang fight and didn't think it was worth waiting around for.
I think that article is just a round-up of the recent big fights in Australia, not a report of the same bill, so it looks like 23 Feb is likely the correct date for Moir/Cripps.
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Bladder wrote:Check your copy of 'Boxing' again. Mine says Summers/Mehegan was on 6th April .... not on the undercard of Burns/Lang.kochamp wrote:In 'Boxing' 16th April 1910, it says this fight took place on 11th April, also the Moir/Cripps and Summers/Meneghan fights were on the undercard.
Boxrec has 7th April for the burns fights, 6th April for the Summers fight and 23rd Feb for the Moir fights, It's says the article it was originally meant to take place on the 28th March and was moved back. Moir didn't know anything about Cripps so it couldn't have been a rematch.
Can anyone shed any more light onto this?
Yes I re-read the article and it does say the 6th for Summers. The way the article was written looked like it was all one fight card...
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I should imagine the travel time between Australia and London in 1910 was weeks rather than days.