DOMINION BOXER
Our Ovvu Correspondent.)
Plans for Strickland MATCHES IN UNITED STATES
(From
LONDON, Dec. 4. The indisposition which affected Maurice Strickland 'a showing against A1 Delaney earlier this week kept the New Zealander in bed for several days. Bc was to have sailed for Axnerica todaty, but his pasaage has been cancelled. The doctor has ordered him to stay in tho house for a few d?;-s. Ile will spend Christmas with hia wife and child in Florida. Bill Daly, Strickland 's American manager, says the New Zealand boxer inay have one or two iights in the United States before he returns to England. He has been in touch with Mike Jacobs> the promoter. Daly was suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control following an incident after the StricklandNeusel fight, but the suspension expired on December 11. Strickland is expected to return to England at the end of January or early in February. Daly claims to have the rlght to challenge Farr for the Erapire heavy-weight title, and he is endeavouring to arrange a match. The Board of Control has not announced wliether it would recognise such a bout as a final eliminating contest.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 80, 28 December 1937, Page 3
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