BOXER’S PUBLICITY
TACTICS OF GEORGE COOK. ■ MJ PAMPHLET AT CONTEST.' p $ . .. ■■ ' ■ .' ■ ? : ' London, December 5. George Cook, the Australian boxer, has evolved a successful new plan for getting into the limelight, states the. Daily Mail. Patrons going to-the Blackfriars ring to see Larry Gains fight a German, received a pamphlet containing a portrait t . , of Cook, and titled, “Why won’t Gains ' fight me? Is he afraid because I ‘ have r beaten him?”.' Subsequently Gains offered to meet Cook at any time, if the Australian pro- , duced £2OO Tor a side wager. George Cook, who is 34 years of age, i;|| has had a long career abroad. He returned to Australia some time ago and defeated Tiger Payne in Sydney. Cook has met some of the finest fighters'in the . world,, including Young Stribling, but has never risen to anything like championship heights. ■'
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 7
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