This same Billy Murphy is to be found in Auckland to-day, plying a scanty livelihood as a clothes cleaner out in Dominion Road. What has the boxing game in New Zealand done for its greatest fighter, for the man who, when his fighting days were over, came back home again to end his career in the town which first saw his prowess in the ring?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 7
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65This same Billy Murphy is to be found in Auckland to-day, plying a scanty livelihood as a clothes cleaner out in Dominion Road. What has the boxing game in New Zealand done for its greatest fighter, for the man who, when his fighting days were over, came back home again to end his career in the town which first saw his prowess in the ring? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 7
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