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BOXER'S DEATH.
COLLAPSE AFTER FIGHT.
AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Cyril Weaker,
a well-known heavyweight boxer,
died early this morning. Whltaker met
Tom Heeney in a' fifteen rounds* bout on
Monday evening. '
The referee stopped the fight at the
end of the fourteenth round, and declared
Heeney the winner. Whltaker collapsed,
and was taken to the hospital. Be
did not recover consciousness.
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