TRAGEDY OF BLINDNESS
BOXER'S SACRIFICE A career has been lost and the prospect of happy marriage sacrificed because of blindness by a boxer, who lftid achieved fame both in the ring and as a Rugby League footballer. He is George Tootles, who played for Hunslet and was for a long < time sparring partner to Reggie Meen. " My chief dread is that I shall become a burden to others/' Mr. Tootles said recently. " When I was struck blind by receiving so much punishment as a boxer, I decided that no woman should ever have the burden of keeping me through life, and I had to tell my fiancee, unfortunately, that we could not think of marriage in the circumstances. " I am trying to eke out an existence and also to keep in touch with the sport by teaching boxing and doing the work of a masseur."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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