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EVAN ARMSTRONG  is British featherweight
champion again. His needle return match
with former conqueror Tommy Glencross 
ended abruptly after three rounds of action when
referee Jim Brimmell ruled that champion Glencross
could not continue because of a deep gash over his
left eye.

JUST five months after that July night in 1951 that brought a near hysteria of
joy to Britain when Randolph Turpin defied all the odds to win the world
middleweight crown from fabulous Sugar Ray Robinson at Earls Court an
embittered fighter disconsolately left Harringay Arena.

BILLY KNIGHT, Lynn's ABA light heavyweight
champion, ended months of speculation about the
weight he will box at when he was named at lightheavyweight
by the England selectors for a Commonwealth
Games trial match at Dunster House on
October 4.

SCOTLAND'S seven-man team for the Commonwealth
Games in Christchurch in January will be selected later
this month after a series of elimination bouts at Airdrie
and Glasgow.

MUNICH Olympic rep Maurice Hope meets
Manchester middle Bob Murphy over eight rounds
in the main bout at Shoreditch Town Hall on
Tuesday, writes GRAHAM HOUSTON.

DEMPSEY takes a playful poke at old rival Georges Carpentier while
Danny McAlinden looks on.