Billy Tingle, Flyweight Champion of aUST

As a young boy growing up in Hong Kong, I had the privelege of learning to play many different sports under the tutelage of Mr. Billy Tingle. That was in 1960-67. Mr. Tingle founded the Billy Tingle Institute that met each Saturday morning on the grounds of the Hong Kong Cricket Club. Under his guidance, we learnt how to play games competitively but fairly, and to look out for others less able or less fortunate than ourselves.

Mr. Tingle lived in interesting times and places: he was not only a successful fly-weight boxer in Australia and Asia (1917-1921) but settled in Shanghai before the War where he was later interned under the Japanese occupation. After the War, he came to live in Hong Kong where his reputation as an athletic coach and an outstanding gentleman was widely recognised.

I am looking for any information on Mr. Tingle that can shed light on his remarkable achievements and to help me in locating former students of the Billy Tingle Institute so that the good deeds that he was dedicated to might be continued by his grown-up pupils.

I believe he passed away in Hong Kong sometime in the late 1970's.

James Alderton