MODEST CHAMPION.
HELPS PARENTS IN FISH SHOP. Harry Mizler, aged 19, ex-amateur and Olympic champion, who won the British lightweight championship on January 18, retains his job helping his parents at an East End fried fish stand. It is part of his training to trundle a fish barrow to Billingsgate and back at 4 a.m. daily. * 4 ‘The first thing I will do is to see that my young sister, Hannah, has a real 'posh’ wedding,” he says. ‘T am buying her a slap-up’ trousseau, and paying the cost of the reception. The remainder of the purse goes to support the old home.” Mizle r, who hands his mother his professional earnings, except H>s weekly, adds: ‘‘That’s enough for me. I want to see dad and mum in a nice home and with a good business. That’s why I became a boxer.” Mizler has been offered American contests. Newspapers agree as to his brilliance, giving as an instance that he was not marked by Outhbert’s blows, despite his youth and limited experience He is* described as one of the most promising men in England for many years past.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12568, 8 February 1934, Page 7
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188MODEST CHAMPION. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12568, 8 February 1934, Page 7
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