. There is a dearth of all-in wrestlers in South Africa at the present, but there are hopes of men arriving from England and Australia during the next month or two. . ' Jack Petersen, British heavy- - weight champion, may not ; cut very much ice in world boxing, but he has his price, and a very good one too. It is £6000. This is the amount he is-now being; ' . offered for a single contest. Not bad for a. man who commenced professional boxing: five years ago at £5 a fight. Bob Oiin, the former . light-heavy-weight champion of the world, had to go through a.peculiar formality before his fight with Tommy, Farr. : Olin was in England on ah ordinary visitor's permit. The British Boxing Board of Control granted him a permit to box. after the usual consultation with the Ministry of Labour, and in order to comply with the rules, he took a trip to Calais and re-entered England as a "permit" boxer.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 23
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