FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC
(Own Corresporident-
Welsh Miners Hope to See Boxing Match
By Air Mail.)
JjUINUUiN, AUg. Zs Everi a iriilliqnaire might liesitate at the expense of flyiftg acrbss the Atlantic merely to see a boxing match, but this is the project now being seriously planned by eight Welsh miners in the llbondda Vallfey, birthplace 6f Tommy Farr. They have decided to try to raise enough irioney to tiy the Atlantic in order to attend the Farr versus Louis world heavy-weight title contest ih NeW York, The men, -who are known in Wales afe the flying miners, have for some yearfe made it a practice to!flj? to international Bugby games and otber national sporting events hundreds of miles away.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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119FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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