STRICKLAND NOT FIT
His Match with Delaney LONDON PRESS CRITlCISM . (Beceived '2, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. I. "A boxer's first duty is to the pub'.ic and it should outweigh other conside^ations. He ought to stay out of the rir.g if he is unfit," says the Daily Mail'si sports-gossip writer in criticising Mauriee Strickland, the New Zealand boxer, for not disclosing his non-fitness before his fight with tho Canadian, Delaney. The writer adds : ' ' Strickland has only himself to blame for not improving his heavyweight claims." Strickland is suffering from gast.roentenitis and is spending several ddys in bed. He says he is ready to fight Tommy Farr at any time. !. - — ■ I ■ II III ■ I »| ■ T~l
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 6
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