MAURICE STRICKLAND
ARRIVAL IN DOMINION ON HOLIDAY TRIP By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 13. Maurice Strickland, the New Zealand boxer, who, in the past three years, has climbed to top rank heavyweight boxers, returned by the Monterey, accompanied by his wife and small son. Strickland who leaves tonight for Wellington is spending a fortnight in the Dominion. He is then returning to America.
The boxer said he expected to be able to claim a world championship match this year, hence meantime he will box under contract to Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s late manager.
Strickland remarked he has been listed by New York premier sports writer as .fifth boxer of world, after Louis, Schmeling, Baer and Farr. He said he would like to spend six months among New Zealand amateurs. “I would like to take a screed of husky ones back to America. I feel sure they would do well.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 2
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