JOHNNY LECKIE IS A GLUTTON FOR FIGHT
JOHNNY LECKIE has been well named ‘‘Fighting Johnny.” Usually when a man reaches championship status, he is not anxious to risk losing it, often using considerable ingenuity in dodging the acceptance of challenges. But J. L. uses instead the slogan. “Let ’em all come,” and takes on all and sundry. To-mor-row night he is engaged to fight Norman Gillespie (who was narrowly defeated by Griffiths) in Dunedin, on May 14 he will meet Billie Melton in Wellington, and two or three weeks later he will engage Tommy Barber in Dunedin. The champion is surely a glutton for work!
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 11
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105JOHNNY LECKIE IS A GLUTTON FOR FIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 11
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