Boxing “Incompetents” Matched With Patterson?
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 5.
Bobby Gleason, veteran manager of the heavy-weight boxer, Nino Valdes, charged today that only ‘‘incompetents’’ were being matched against the champion Floyd Patterson, to ensure that he kept his crown. Gleason made the accusation in a newspaper interview. He told a Huntington (West Virginia) reporter he planned to ask his Congressman to seek legislation to put boxing under Federal control.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 5
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