BOXING
SHARPE TO BE MATCHED f TIY TKTiKOHAPTI —PRESS ASSOCIATION | WELLINOTON, Wednesday The Australian light-weight professional boxer Jackie Sharpo, wlio knocked out the Wellington boxer Stan Smith in a contest at Greymouth last Saturday, Smith later dying in hospital, is to be matched again as soon as an opponent can be found for him, according to a statement by his manager, Mr. ,T. Sullivan. "It is my one ambition now to get, Jacky another ficrht," said Mr Sullivan. "Were ho to give up boxing, the fact that the last blow he had made had killed his opponent would linger in his mind for the rest of his life and would probably ruin him." He added that he particularly desired to match Sharp# against J. E. Bainer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22853, 7 October 1937, Page 20
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