Conn Holds His Boxing Title
A message on September 26 states that on the previous night Billy Conn retained his world light-heavyweight boxing title. He outpointed Melio Bettina over 15 rounds.
After Bettina won the first four rounds Conn took command, and won the other 11 rounds by a wide margin. On July 14 Conn outpointed Bettina at New York, for the light-heavy title declared vacant by the American boxing authorities when John Henry Lewis’s defective eyesight caused abandonment of his intended fight with Len Harvey in London last May. The last named, on July 10 at White City, outpointed Jock McAvoy, before a crowd of 70,000 for what was styled by English promoters a world championship bout because (so it was contended) Lewis’s cruiser title had been forfeited to Harvey.,
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Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 16
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131Conn Holds His Boxing Title Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 16
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