BOXING.
uv Tt:r.Fnn.trrt —re.n puf.ss association young GRTFFO. (Received this day at 10.2.3 a.m.) NEAV YORK. Dec. 9.
“Young Griffo''. the Australian boxer, whose name was once a hv-word throughout American .-porting circles, is now utterly destitute. He sits nightly on the steps ot a Broadway motion picture theatre, miserably clad. Legging small coins from passers-bv. Griffo came to United States when 22 years of age. He is now So. He was noted in the days of saloons for a trick of laying a handkerchief on a tloor, stepping thereon, and hotting anyone anv sum that they were unable to hit hi.s face, even though he held his hands to his sides. ft was his Ixiast that he never lost such a hot except. to a trained boxer. Griffo was credited with knowing more boxing tricks than any other pugilist of the period. He was recognised while.begging by Peter Kenny, an Australian, who is trying to interest Australians here to arrange a benefit. Griffo recently was erroneously reported dead, owing to mistaken identification.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1925, Page 3
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173BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1925, Page 3
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