AMERICAN BOXERS FLY TO AUSTRALIA
AUCKLAND, Feb. 4. The first American boxers to fly to Australia and New Zealand in search of figlits, arrlved by Pati-Americau clipper en route to the Conimonwealth. Thoy were Fddie Marcus, iightweight, who has been signed up for a bout with the Australia Yic Patrick, and two negroes, Emory Jackson, middleweight, and O 'Neill Bell, welterweight. Marcus said the reputation of the New Zealand welterweight champion, Bos Murphy, was well known in the United States and both he and Bell, who had fought the present welterweight champion of the world, Roy Robinson, were* anxious to meet him.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1947, Page 6
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