JOE BAKSI HELPED BOOST COAL OUTPUT
(Special Gorrespondent.) ,
Eeceived ' Mondav, 7 p.m. T •• ■ ,, LONDON, May 12. . One of the N.atioiial Coal Board's happiest iiispiratiolis for encouraginj> coal output, j has been to send Joe Baksi, the Pennsylvanian ex-miner whri defeated Bruce Woodcock, the boxing idol of the Yorlcshire coalfields, 'to tohi the Yorkshire pits. The special corres pondent of the Yorkshire Post sayf jgaksi's goodwill mission proved ari outsfcanding success. He has tailcoc with thonsands of miners, watcheti them at work, coached pugilistic pit boys and been filmed at the bottom of i cnalshafh
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470513.2.40
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1947, Page 6
Word Count
94JOE BAKSI HELPED BOOST COAL OUTPUT Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1947, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in