STRING OF VICTORIES
INCLUDING DEFEAT OF ARMY CHAMPION WON BY NEW ZEALAND BOXER IN BRITAIN. MEMBER OF FORESTRY UNIT. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. Sapper George Muir, of Invercargill, a member of the Forestry Unit (13st.) beat George Marwick (13st. 111 b.), heavyweight champion of the British Army. The referee stopped the fight in the third round, when Marwick’s left eye was bleeding profusely. Muir has now won ten fights in succession, including six knock-out victories, and a points decision over the Canadian Army champion. Muir, who is aged 29, was keen to beat Marwick by a knock-out. He won the first round after a cautious opening and might have knocked out Marwick in the second round if he had not been too eager after he had broken through Marwick’s guard and connected with two swinging rights to Marwick’s head. These shook the Britisher, but he fought back, connecting with a left and right to the body. It was Muir’s round. Marwick opened the third round with a left-right-left to the body and made Muir miss badly with a ferocious uppercut. They mixed it in the centre of the ring, after which as Marwick’s eye was bleeding badly, the referee stopped the fight at ■ the end of the round. Ted Broadribb, formerly Tommy Farr’s manager, was Muir’s second. Broadribb is taking an interest in the New Zealander, whose string of victories is attracting attention. Muir is in the pink of condition, being fit from his forestry work. He trains regularly, sparring with Sapper Derek Sutherland, of Rotorua, who is shortly having his first professional fight, and also with Sapper John Brown, of Auckland. They have a useful gymnasium, fitted with light and heavy punch-balls. Brigadier R. S. Park, of Hawera, commanding the New Zealand Forces in the United Kingdom, and Lieuten-ant-Colonel J. G. Elliot, officer commanding the Forestry Companies, saw Muir win.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1942, Page 3
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