This same Billy Murphy is to be found in Auckland to-day, plying a scanty livelihood as a clothes cleaner out in Dominion Road. What has the boxing game in New Zealand done for its greatest fighter, for the man who, when his fighting days were over, came back home again to end his career in the town which first saw his prowess in the ring?
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 15 (Supplement)
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65This same Billy Murphy is to be found in Auckland to-day, plying a scanty livelihood as a clothes cleaner out in Dominion Road. What has the boxing game in New Zealand done for its greatest fighter, for the man who, when his fighting days were over, came back home again to end his career in the town which first saw his prowess in the ring? Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 15 (Supplement)
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