WORLD TITLE FIGHT
ARMSTRONG V. AMBERS
IJIG GATE EXPECTED
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. August 23, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 22. An attendance of 50,000 and a gate of £30,000 are anticipated for the return bout between Henry Armstrong and Lou Ambers tor the world's lightweight boxing championship at Yankee Stadium to-morrow. Armstrong is the favourite. A controversy threatens -it Ambers wins because Ambers is also at the weight for the welterweight title which Armstrong holds. Ambers supporters say that he is within his rights to claim both titles. Armstrong has announced that he plans to enter the middleweight division. His ambition is to hold four world titles, feather light, middle and welter, and to abdicate them.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 11
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119WORLD TITLE FIGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 11
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