BOXING
SHARKEY OFFERED £50,000 TO FIGHT SCOTT IN LONDON LONDON, Oct. 26. Wilfred Ward, sportsman, backer of Phil Scott, has formed la syndicate which announced to-day that it is prepared to guarantee Jack Sharkey £50,000 to fight the English heavyweight in an open air bout in l London next spring for the world’s championship. Ward and his associates are also prepared to wager £SOOO with Sharkey that Scott defeats him when they meet, either in America or in England.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 7
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