The Man They Couldn't Gag |
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... referee's intervention in the tenth round , Pompey had been ahead on points . Archie was to fight again just seven weeks after beating Pompey , in a contest against James J. Parker of Canada , quite unjustifiably billed as being for the ...
... referee's intervention in the tenth round , Pompey had been ahead on points . Archie was to fight again just seven weeks after beating Pompey , in a contest against James J. Parker of Canada , quite unjustifiably billed as being for the ...
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... referee , got in touch with me to tell me that he had made up his mind to quit . - So what was the reason for a man , whose whole life had been in- volved with the sport , calling it a day ? He was due to referee , at Olympia , a bout ...
... referee , got in touch with me to tell me that he had made up his mind to quit . - So what was the reason for a man , whose whole life had been in- volved with the sport , calling it a day ? He was due to referee , at Olympia , a bout ...
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... referee . Then , just to confound confusion , on the rare occasions when Britain got a world title fight we reverted to our own rules and it was governed and scored only by a referee . I am not stupid enough to suggest that the addition ...
... referee . Then , just to confound confusion , on the rare occasions when Britain got a world title fight we reverted to our own rules and it was governed and scored only by a referee . I am not stupid enough to suggest that the addition ...
Contents
Sometimes it was the Street of Misadventure until 1935 | 17 |
Mirror Mirror on the Ball 19357 | 31 |
The End of the Beginning 193840 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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