MAURICE STRICKLAND AT MADISON GARDEN
ACCORDING to * London exchange the New Zealand boxer Maurice Strickland was to contest one of the preliminaries to the Tommy Farr-Clarence Burman fight at Madison Square Garden last week-end, when Fanlost to Dempsey's protege. Strickland's opponent was Buddy Knox, of Dayton, Ohio, a 22-year-old Irish-American, who is reputed to be a big puncher. Strickland was in tHe Dominion last winter and left these shores with hopes of meeting Farr in Toronto. The projected bout fell through. Then he went over to England, being named as the opponent for Larry Gains in an elimination bout for the British Heavy-weight championship. The New Zealaiider's luck was out again, for none of the British promoters would stage the bout. A disappointed man, Strickland went back to America last October and no news of his fighting in America in the interim has been received.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 13
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