AMERICAN BOXER HERE.
i AFTER AUSTRALIAN TTTLE. j i Amongst the through passengers from • Vancouver by the. Niagara is Eddie Wal- | lace, a well-known American boxer, who j is on his way to Australia to fight Llew | Edwards for* the Australian lightweight j championship at Sydney on December '. 26. Wallace is under contract with R. L. ("Snowy") Baker, of the Stadium proprietory, for five bouts in six months, the first with Edwards, and the others with boxers yet to be nominated. Wallace, whose- present weight is list. 71b., claims to be one of the " inner circle" of four or five American liphtweijrlits. He lias fought four world's champions since 1916—"Kid" Williams (bantam), .Tohnny Kilbane (featherweight), Freddy 'Welch and Rennv Leonard (lightweights). i
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 5
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