BOXING IN AMERICA.
B AFTER FIVE YEARS. I BOXER LOSES LIGHTWEIGHT | TITLE. $ NEW YORK, December 21. $ In a boxing match Benny Bass (PhilaIdelphia) knocked out Tod Morgan (Seattle) in the second round and won the junior lightweight championship which Morgan had held five years. Kid Chocolate, 9.2£, knocked out ] Johnny Lawson (New Jersey), 9.7, in the | second of .10 scheduled rounds. This is 1 Chocolate's last fight before he leaves for Havana to rest. He will later return and Continue his bouts in New York.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 19
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