BOXING NOTES
The veteran Les Adams, of Ashburton, has announced his retirement from the ring. Just nineteen years in boxing is his record. Jack Kelly, another southerner of long connection with the game as an amateur, has also decided to retire. % * * Tom Heeney and Gene Tunney drew more than twice the money paid for admission to the LouisGalento fight. * * x Harry Greb was one of the greatest fighters of all time. He engaged in 270 contests and lost only nine. % * * Jack Davis, who has been matched to meet Mayne Morton in an open-air contest shortly, is a very game fellow indeed. When he met Canadian Johnny Foster early in the present year, he was obliged to "take it’ in no small measure, and after the bout Foster paid a very fine tribute to the grit of his youthful opponent.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 21, 17 November 1939, Page 38
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