BOXER'S BIG EARNINGS.
AIMING AT TWO MILLIONS. '■••!< Sharkey, heavy-weight champion boxer of the United States, earned more money in 1930 than any other American .boxer. His net earnings for the year are put at £43,600, and of this £35,000 came from his fight, with Max Schmeling in New York; with Phil. Scott, in Florida, Sharkey drew £BOOO. Sharkey expects to remain in tho ring for another five years, at the end of which lie hopes to have collected £2,000,000, a sum which would surpass that earned by Jack Dempsey,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20854, 22 April 1931, Page 16
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