A Hobart paper is credited by the Australian "Journalist" with the worst "howler" on reoord. Two pugilists, Frank Thorn and Jim Armstrong, were engaged in. a contest at Broken Hill and when tho message was wired away to other papers the weights of the men were given as 9.7 and 10.2. To the average pressman these figures would at once indicate that the weights were 9st 71b and lOst 21b, but the item appeared under ,the heading "Ancient Competitors," and the ages of the boxers were given as >97 years and 102 years 1 And the statement was added that, "despite tho great age of the two competitors, the battle was strenuously fought."
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Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 25 October 1913, Page 5
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