HOLIDAY FOR BOXER
The National Sporting Club has offered to finance Benny Lynch, of Knglrfnd, former fly-weight champion of the world, for a two-months' holiday, followed by a sea cruise for a mouth to enable him to recover his form. I lie club explains that Lynch should be able to win the bantam-weight championship of the world from Sixto Esco-j nar, of Puerto Rica. Lynch suffered bis greatest humiliation when be was .knocked out at the National Sporting Club by a Rumanian, Aure! Toma. Lynch was flabby, dull-eyed and a caricature of his former greatness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 21
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95HOLIDAY FOR BOXER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 21
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