QUITTING THE RING
NOTED CANADIAN BOXER (Received Dec. 7, noon) VANCOUVER, Dec. 6. Billy Townsend, a popular lightweight boxer and one-time contender for tho world championship, announced today that he was quitting the ring and sailing to-night for Sydney, where ho lias secured a "position. The announcement came as a shock to local boxing fans, as Townsend is still in his prime.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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