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BOXER'S NOVEL IDEA
NEW YORK, December 20,
The New York Boxing Commission has suspended Tommy Loughran, the real life Kid Galahad, and his protege, Matt Raymond, for 60 days because Raymond fought at Madison Square with lead fishing sinkers in his pants. Raymond, "though actually weighing only 11 stone 10' pounds and scarcely . a middleweight, beat Henry Cooper (13st 131b). The purse is forfeited. ■• " '
Raymond has. beaten 30 heavyweights, including' Nick Fiorentino, 14st 111b.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 16
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76EXTRA WEIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 16
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