BOXER PENALISED
FIGHT AGAINST HEAVIER (OPPONENT. WEIGHED CARRYING LEAD SINKERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 20. The New York Boxing Commission has suspended Tommy Loughran, in real life Kid Galahad, and a protege of Matt Raymond, for 60 days, because Raymond fought at Madison Square with lead fishing sinkers in his pants. Raymond, though actually weighing only 11.10 and scarcely a middleweight, beat Henry Cooper (13.13). The purse is forfeited.
Raymond has beaten 30 heavyweights, including Nick Fiorentino, 14.11.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 7
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80BOXER PENALISED Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 7
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