NEW CHALLENGER ARISES.
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW MAtAND • CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 21st'. September. The "Daily Chronicle" says that Albert Lloyd (Australia] has signed articles to box Robert Roth (Switzerland), at Olympia on'lst October;' Roth won the heavyweight wrestling championship at the Olympic games in 1920, and has now decided to become a boxer. He-is twenty-four years old, and in condition nearly fifteen stone.
Recently boxing enthusiasts in London expressed'the opinion that Roth would become world's champion' by defeating Dempsey. He has been in training for boxing during. the past twelve months, and from a physical point of view is a wprld-beater. He is 6ft 2£in in height, with a reach of 78 inches, and is 24 years of age. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 73, 24 September 1923, Page 8
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