BOXING
AMERICAN BOUTS AMEERS DEFEATS DAY (JLlbc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Asen.) NEW YORK, Feb. 11. The boxer, Lou Ambers, won a decision over Davey Day at Chicago in a nontitle 10-round contest that was witnessed by 5500 people.
TWINS ARE CHAMPIONS LONDON, Dec. 21. Twin brothers, George and Albert Lewis, of St. John's School, Potters Bar, arc schoolboy boxing champions of Britain at their weights. They won their titles at the schoolboys' championships at the Stadium Club, London, on Saturday. George is (sst. 71b. champion; Albeit is King of the 7st. 71b. class. When they were born they were the heaviest twins on English record. George weighed 91b, Albert fljlb.
ROMANCE OF THE RING There is romance in plenty in professional boxing. It seems only a short while since I was watching Benny Lynch fight, in Glasgow, soon after he had abandoned :i job as messenger boy, for a few shillings a week. Me is now flyweight champion of the world, commanding £2500 for his next fight, and has just bought himself a new house at Burnside, near Caihkinbraes, Glasgow,—Geoffrev Simpson in the Daily Mail. NOT "BROKE" NOW Dark, rugged. Eddie Maguire, the South African middleweight boxer, ,vho fought Teddy Yarosz in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, recently, is one of Ben Foord's closest friends. The two have been associated since they adopted professional boxing as a career, and both have gone through bad times together. When they left Capetown for England a few months ago, Maguire and Foord had hardly a penny between them, but both are now doing well.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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258BOXING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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