TRAGEDY OF BLINDNESS.

Western Star, 6 April 1934, Page 4

TRAGEDY OF BLINDNESS.

BOXER’S SACRIFICE. A career has been lost and the prospect of happy marriage sacrificed because of blindness by a boxer, who had achieved fame both in the ring and as a Rugby League footballer. 11; is George Tootles, who played for ffUnset- and was for a long time sparring partner to Reggie Moen. “My chief dread is that 1 shall become a burden) to others,” Mr Tootles said recently. “AYlien I was struck Mind by receiving so much punishment s a- boxer, 1 decided that no woman

should ever have the burden of keeping me through life, and I had to tell my fiancee, unfortunately, that, we could not think of marriage in the circumstances. “T am trying lo eke can cm exMuice imd also to keep in vouch with the sport by teaching boxing and doing the work of a masseur. ’ - An optimist believes that, prospi-ri'.y is round the. corner though he knows it- isn’t-; a pessimist believes that there isn't any corner and there wouldn't bo any prosperity if there was.