Patrick Decides
BOXING
SYDNEY. This Day. The Australian dual boxing champion. Vic Patrick, announced yesterday that he had given up the welterweight title. ,nd would never again fight out of (he light-weight division. Patrick said lie was tired of meetingboxers almost a stone heavier than himself and if light-weight opponents were for him he would retire i'rrrn boxing altogether. Patrick confirmed a previous statement that ne had withdrawn from his proposed fight with the New Zeaiandcr Clarric Gordon, and said he was annoyed at the insistence of Stadiums, Ltd., that he should go on with tiie bout. He is negotiating to go into business and may become a hotelkeeper. Patrick’s manager. Ern McQuillan, is backing his charge’s decision, but the manager of Stadiums, Ltd.. Mr H. Miller, admits that Patrick’s withdrawal from the Gordon fight has caught him unawares. The Sydney Daily Telegraph comments that the weight difference between Gordon and Patrick is only five pounds.
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Northern Advocate, 25 June 1946, Page 3
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