BOXING
COOK REFUSED LICENSE.' ’BY-'CABLK —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. February IS, 1 p.m.) n? LONDON, February 17. '’•The British Boxing Board of Control has announced that it refuses to renew George Cook’s license. This mav prevent Cook from carrying out' his plan for a fight to celebrate his silver jubilee as a professional. j ■y George assumes that he is banned because he is. too old. He says: lam still fit. and I am. not going to be | .jstopped by a lot of men judging me| ‘-by average boxers aged 39, who do not i live right. If the press, after the next j fight, say that I am washed up andthrough. I am prepared to quit. '(
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 14
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