BOS MURPHYS NEXT FIGHT
BOUT WITH EUROPEAN CHAMPION SOUGHT
(Special Correspondent NZ.PX4 LONDON, December 3. Mr Jack Solomons, the boxtag promoter, is hoping to arrange a fight between the New Zealander Sos Murphy and Marcel Cerdan, French and European middleweight champion and one of the leading contenders for the world middleweight title. Since he beat the Jamaican, Roy Petersen.
St the Albert Hall on December X. lurphy has resumed training each day at Solomons’ gymnasium in Great Windmill street .fit righthand, whieh he damaged in the first round of the fight, is now improving. Murphy hpg finally given up his contest with the British customs in an clement his rations. Instructions have £ i , vcn thl “ the meat, together with 751 b of extra tinned foodstuffs. B . h ,? u J? returned to New Zealand. new arrival Is allowed to bring into the country, Murphy Mid he would rmnata ia Britain as long as fights were offering, but he hoped to return to New land in about six months. He would come back to Britain later, his bijective being a challenge match against Vince Hawkins fqr the Brithh Empire middleweight title.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25362, 9 December 1947, Page 7
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