PATRICK GIVES UP TITLE
Eeeeived Monday 11.0 p.m. 8YDNEY, Juno 2*. I The dual boxing ehampion, Vic (Patrick announced todav that he hau | given up the welter title and woulu j never again fight out of the liglitweiglu j di vision. Patrick said tie w ?.-> tired Jt j meeting boxers almost a -t'- e • heavicr i and it' Jightweight opponents were not ; f ou ud for him he would go out of box-. j ing altogether. j He confirmed a previous statenieDt | tliat he had withdrawn from the proposed light with tlie New Zealander, j Clarrie Gordon, and said he was annoyI ed at : Limited that he go on with the Gordon' j bout. He is negotiating to *go into i business and may become an hotelIkeeper. His manager, Ern McQuillan, is Lacking the decision but the stadium manager, Harry Milier, admits that Patrick 's withdrawal from thc Gordon fight caught him unawares. The Telegraph coininents that the weight differeuce between Gordon and Patrick is only five pounds.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 June 1946, Page 7
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