MOORE AND RICHARDS TO MEET TO-MORROW.
. AMERICAN SAYS HE IS GOING HOME AFTERWARDS.
Archie Moore, American negro boxer, lias been matched in a return bout with Ron Richards at the Sydney Stadium tomorrow night. After that ho intends to return to America, states the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." Moore said last week that lie would give Fred Hennebcrry a return contest only if the latter was prepared to light a week after the Richards-Moore bout, "I have booked my passage, and nothing will persuade me to stay," .Moore declared. When ho wits renihided that lie would earn probably £100 In n return light with Honneberry, Moore replied: "I wouldn't care if It meant £300 to me, I'm not going to wait. : "Every tight In which I linvc been matched in Australia has been postponed, and I have no guarantee the same won't happen again. "I've had only three lights In Sydney In four months, and I can't be certain even now that Richards will light me on the date fixed." „ , , Mooro was to linvc met Carmen Barth at Brisbane last. Friday night, but. Barth requested a postponement and the tight was cancelled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 162, 10 July 1940, Page 13
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