BOXING
TOM HEENEY’S NEXT BOUT. (United Press Assn.— Ey Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.0 p.m.) London, December 17. The British heavyweight boxing champion, Reggie Meen, has accepted Tom Heeney’s challenge for a contest for £2OO aside at Leicester at the end of January. BROTHERS LN SAVAGE CONTEST. London, December 16. Two boxers in a Sheffield contest punched each other so severely that the referee stopped the fight in the sixth round with both unconscious on the ring floor. The unsuspecting spectators then learned that they were brothers, Edgar and Austin Brown, who had fought, under assumed names.
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Southland Times, Issue 21580, 18 December 1931, Page 8
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