Boxing News magazine 29.4.1983 Download pdf

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NEW president of London's North-East Division is Fred
Elflain, of Repton ABC, who was appointed the division's
annual general meeting last week.
He succeeds Alf Adams of Five Star ABC, Romford,
Essex, and the late Tommy Wilder, of Dagenham ABC.
Elflain's honour is richly deserved after over 30 years' dedicated
service to the sport, mainly as a backroom boy or a judge,
quietly doing his job.

BIG-PUNCHING Newport heavyweight David
Pearce challenges Neville Meade for the British
title in Cardiff on September 22.
The two have met before, when Meade scored
an upset second-round stoppage in a Welsh title
fight in 1980, but plans to match them for the
British title have repeatedly been called off before now.

IN THE year 1976 Lady Luck seemed to be positively
beaming for two young brothers from Pomona,
California. The Sandoval Kids were enjoying a run of
success which must have been the envy of every box-
| ing family in America.
Alberto 'Superfly', the elder of the two, had just
I completed his first 12 months as a professional with
an undefeated record of 15 fights. Young Richie, at
the tender age of 15, had won the Junior Olympic
I Gold Medal in the 951b class.

SCOTLAND has provided its full share of British champions,
but might have missed out on Johnny McGrory as
a boxing hero and acclaimed him instead as a soccer star.
At St. John's School in Glasgow he showed such natural
ability at football that his friends and family were eagerly
anticipating that he would be playing professionally before
he was much older.

BOXING has always had its detractors plus a few fanatical abolitionists.
Fortunately, the sport has also had its fair share of defenders who by
articulate delivery, good example and self-discipline have ensured that
boxing will continue to survive, despite the occasional fatality, scandal
and sheer human greed when hard cash becomes more important than
the spilling of human blood or tearing of flesh.
One of the more recent detractors is Mr Pat Haynes, the mayor of the
Borough of Islington in London, who describes boxing as "brutal and
brutalising."