WORLD TITLE FIGHT
TARLETON’S HANDICAP
(9 a.m.)
LONDON, Dec. 5
Boxing commentators, discussing the pending world featherweight title fight between Net Tarleton and Willie Pep. wonder whether Tarleton, at 41, can give nearly 16 years to a world champion who has beaten all comers in the United States.
“It will indeed be a triumph if he succeeds,” says the Daily Herald’s boxing correspondent, but the Daily Express correspondent says that Tarleton has not “even a half-Nelson chance.” Tarleton last fought for the same title nearly 11 years ago when he was just beaten on points by Freddie Miller, then the reigning world champion.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 8
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