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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 10

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GREGORY—BROOKS MARRIAGE POSTPONED United Press Association—By Electro. Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 21, 8.20 pjn.) LONDON, November 21. The guests vainly waited an hour to celebrate the wedding of Bob Gregory and Valerie Brooke, which did not eventuate. The couple later explained that due to a family bereavement the wedding had been postponed until December 20. Miss Valerie Brooke, daughter of the Rajah of Sarawak, watched the America'i Bob Fyffe beat Bob Gregory with t flying throw in the eighth round of a contest at Belfast. She said she would marry Gregory on December 20, her twenty-second birthday. “I have always been a fighter. This Is only another fight. I am not pinned down yet,” said Bog Gregory, aged 25, middleweight catch-as-catch-can champion of Europe and all-in wrestler, declaring his determination to marry Miss Brooke, despite parental opposition. “Both the Ranee and the Rajah oppose the wedding," said a member of the Ranee’s household. “The Rajah has cabled intimating that he will disinherit his daughter if she disobeys his wishes.”