FATAL BOXING BOUT
EX-SCHOOLBOY CHAMPION KILLED. (Press Association —By Telegraph-Copyright.) LONDON, November 24. (Received Nov. 25, at 5.5 p.m.) There was a tragic termination to uio Northern Counties’ boxing championship at Hall. George Hart, aged 17, who was the English schoolboy champion in 1923, while boxing with the world s schoolboy champion, received an uppercut on the point, causing _ him to fall. He was carried out unconscious, and during a later bout it was announced that he had died. The audience th £ with bared heads. A. and N.Z. Cable |
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 9
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