DECAY OF BIG BOXING.
TOO MUCH NOW AT STAKE. Sun".' •• . '-•;. ./'. LONDON, Nov. 25. Tom Webster, in an article ;in the Weekly Dispatch, asks why does the present day heavy-weight fight usually end in a fiasco. He answers himself that there is too much at stake nowadays for, men to do themselves justice. Defeat, while not meaning exactly, oblivion,*practically puts the boxer out of the running. C • Any: real big money men. like Carpentier find the responsibility an incentive, but it isa handicap. to men of lesser men: »*1 calibre of which \ the British ring is composed to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18567, 27 November 1923, Page 7
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