A REAL BATTLER
Boxer’s Fight With Poverty. LONDON, February 9. A sixteen-year-old Norwich orphan is literally fighting to keep his home together. William Robinson, known in the boxing world as “ Chucky,” has nine step-brothers and step-sisters, the oldest being fourteen years of age. His father was killed in the war, and his mother, who married again, died in 1933, making it necessary for the children, except “ Chucky,” to go to the workhouse. “ CJiucky' ” got a job in a gravel pit at 27s a week, until chance revealed his marked boxing capacit>'. A wellknown light-weight could not keep an engagement at Yarmouth. “ Chucky ” volunteered to take his place, and knocked out an experienced fighter. He later drew' w’ith the bantam champion of the eastern counties. He says he is going to earn mone3 r at boxing until he gets all nine children out of the workhouse, one by one, and then his home will be as happy as it whs before his mother died.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 1
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163A REAL BATTLER Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 1
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