MODEST TOM
ON BEAUTIFUL FARM TRAINING FOR FIGHT. NEW YORK, Juno 13. Tome Heeney is now comfortably established at Rum son Farm Kennels, out on the Jersey coastline, a 700-acre tract on the main auto highway and equipped in the finest way for the needs of pugilist training. An indoor ring is erected in a private barn with seating accommodation for 1500. Mjinager Charlie Harvey intends to daily charge 2s to watch his battler perform. Heeney can do five or six miles roadwork without going off the estate. An outdoor ring is erected in the centre of a clover field. The challenger will live in a private cottage with the staff billetted in the sur-. rounding farmhouses. “I feel fine and will give just as good an account of myself as 1 can.’ declared modest Tom, who hue m, t caught the habit of boasting from American pugdom.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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