“HOMICIDAL HENRY”
..... FIXE TYPE OF X&R®' ■■■■'*%. 0;% Writes Thomas Weodf litre in the ' *‘Sunday Dispatch,” London: ‘‘Henry Armstrong! They cfllfhiin ‘Homicidal Henry.’ That’s what lie is in the ring, hut out of it he’s the quietest, most unassuming pugilist I have ever met. You’d never think for a second that he .held three world ' ‘T; titles at the same time—and he’d' be ?i>Y. the last to tell you. • “He is an intellectual negro-, a friend of Paul Robeson, fend oi“music He is' the best type of negro*? boxer, and L’ld rather he had the same nickname—‘Gentleman’—as that great idol, of the N.S.C. in the old days, Peter Jackson—the negro who was white all through.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 218, 9 August 1939, Page 1
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114“HOMICIDAL HENRY” Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 218, 9 August 1939, Page 1
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