The fend that enabled Mark Broadhurst to force his way through many d efences on the rugby league fields of New Zealand is now earning him fame as a boxer. Broadhurst, shaping up (at left) against Gerald Beeson (Auckland) at the Caledonian Hall last Sunday, has been unbeaten in four bouts. More familiar to many sports followers is Broadhurst’s ability to keep opponents out of tackling reach. The player left clutching air in the protograph at right is the former Wellington and New Zealand scrum-half,’Eric Carson.
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86The fend that enabled Mark Broadhurst to force his way through many d efences on the rugby league fields of New Zealand is now earning him fame as a boxer. Broadhurst, shaping up (at left) against Gerald Beeson (Auckland) at the Caledonian Hall last Sunday, has been unbeaten in four bouts. More familiar to many sports followers is Broadhurst’s ability to keep opponents out of tackling reach. The player left clutching air in the protograph at right is the former Wellington and New Zealand scrum-half,’Eric Carson. Press, 12 August 1978, Page 18
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