Boxer's Death Follows Knock-Out
SYDNEY, Sept. 20. The boxer, Archie Kemp, died in hospital after having been knocked out in the Australian lightweight champion- | ship fight with Jack Hassen. Soon after the fight he was rushecl to hospital with a suspected cerebral haemorrhage. An operation was performed early today but the boxer did not regain consciousness. Hassen, who brolce his right thumb in the second round, punished Kemp severelv in the eleventh round and appealed to the rrferee (.Joe Wallis) who allowed the fight to go on. Hassen knocked Kemp out with a right eros* to the ohiti late in the eleventh round Kemp is the third of Hassen 's op ponents during the past 12 months to be taken to the same hospital for treatment, after knpekoqts, _The otliers were the Frenckmen, Pierre Montane "anil Andre Fam'echon.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 September 1949, Page 5
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