THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1989
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Nothing annoys me more than when stand up to my punches is a gamble. people talk disparagingly of the men. I think I have the beating of him. tality
of professional footballers.-Jack London. Tommy Muirhead.
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I regard I. A. R. Peebles as one of were many innocent victims of over-coach- I believe that if wage limits abolished and the English Footballing. So ignorant were they at Oxford League drastically cut down in respect in his year that they used him at times of the number of clubs we should get as a fast bowler! He had a naturally better League football.-Rowland Al-good leg-break as well as a deceptive
googlie.-E. H. D. Sewell. len.
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If Tommy Farr traded punches with me in the same way he did with Red Burman, the fight would not go the dis- tance. I can take everything Farr can can send over, but whether Tommy
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All I know is that Henry Armstrong is fast; he has a world of stamina; he
TO KANE
- A £1000 London, April 27 challenge was issued yesterday on behalf of Kid Tanner (British Guiana) to Peter Kane (Gol- borne), world fly-weight cham- pion. Tanner, who now lives in Liverpool, is the bantam · and feather weight champion of Bri- tish Guiana.
of the power he packs and the quantity of swings that he lands makes him in- vincible for the time being, and just about an even money bet to knock out any fighter within 10 lbs, of his own weight.-Lawton Carver, U.S. sports writer.
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We will leave it to those more in- timately concerned (with the European boxing championships) to get all het up over some of the weird, wonderful, and cock-eyed decisions that were hand- ed out, appealed against, and, in several cases, reversed. At least three of the British team were involved in doubtful. verdicts, but nobody can be really sur- prised about that. There hás yet been an international boxing meet- ing free of these undesirable happen- your ings-you just have, to take
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can box and throws more punches than any angle; and he's vicious in the ring, chance when you enter.
the last ten and gume and a good boxer. He is not ling to high heaven about it afterwards,
any fighter around in
years; he hits with some power from la one-punch killer, but the combination)-A writer in "Boxing."
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