BOXER EARNS £30,000
CAREER OF BRITISH CHAMPION. NOT RISKING AMERICAN TRIP. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrigi oLndon, Oct. 11. Though Jack Petersen, British heavyweight champion, has been boxing only four years his purse money aggregates £30,000. This sum is considerably more than Petersen would have earned if he had followed the dental profession, as he intended. Rumours that Petersen has been matched with Max Baer, the world champion, are untrue. While Petersen is still a youth he is making £7500 a year in England and he will not risk disaster in an American ring. • .
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 4
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