BOXER KEEPS HIS WORD
Promise to Dying Father
LONDON, Aug. 16. (Own Correspondent—By Air Mail.) “You must fight and win for my sake
.... It is my last wish.” As he lay dying, David Bruce, the former Scottish boxer, whispered these words to his son, Tommy, aged 17, whom he was training for a big fight which, it was hoped, might pave the way to the flyweight championship of Scotland for Tommy.
Tommy fought his big fight here tonight—against Cyclone Kelly, of Manchester—and won. Kelly retired in the ninth round. For five years Mr. Bruce had trained his son, and it was alter negotiating the fight with Kelly that he became ill. Tommy wanted to cancel the engagement, but his father would not hear of it.
Yesterday Tommy stood beside a newly dug grave. Then he went back to training more determined than ever. “I shall win,” ho told me before the fight. “I must win lor the sake of my dad. I must justify his confidence in nre.” To-night’s match was the first in which Tommy Bruce had been without the support of his father as second ; but his widowed mother sat at the ringside.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 237, 19 September 1936, Page 2
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