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Can Quarry come back from the dead...again?

 

THERE'S an old saying in boxing that youth must be served. But don't tell

Jimmy Revie that. Revie, 27, is set on winning back the British featherweight

title he once held

 

BASINGSTOKE welterweight TREVOR FRANCIS (10-12)

conceded half a stone and shook off the effects of a recent

attack of 'flu to comfortably outpoint OSCAR ANGUS,

Aylesbury (11-5), over eight rounds at the 20th Century

Sporting Club.

 

JOE GREGORY, Mitcham (ll-6'/2), put up a career-best display to punch out a

hard-earned decision over Peter Cain (Notting Hill) at York Hall.

 

BOXING NEWS EUROPEAN RATINGS

 

BRYN GRIFFITHS, a 22-year-old bookmaker's clerk

from Tonypandy, recovered from a second round

knockdown to beat Commonwealth Games gold

medallist DAVE LARMOUR on a majority decision

 

FIRST-TIME Midland champions JAMES COOKE and TOMMY ANDERTON were the

show-stealers as the Midland Counties scored a 9-0 victory over Eastern Counties in the

ABA zone finals at the Austin works canteen, writes VIC WAKELING.

 

MORRISON shows off his Southern Area championship

belt after beating Steve Angell at

Walworth last September

 

IT'S a measure of Muhammad Ali's greatness that when he's matched against
anyone outside the top three it automatically becomes a mismatch . . . yet
fighters like Ellis, Chuvalo, Mac Foster, Blue Lewis, and the rest were considered
pretty good heavyweights in their own right.

 

AT THE local Coliseum in Cleveland, they are setting the scene for another
production of Cinderella. Cast in the role of the Prince is the handsomest
heavyweight of them all, champion Muhammad Ali. The part of Cinderella will be
played by Chuck Wepner. All that will be missing is the happy ending.

 

THERE'S an old saying in boxing that youth must be served. But don't tell
Jimmy Revie that. Revie, 27, is set on winning back the British featherweight
title he once held — and he laughs at the idea that Vernon Sollas, 20 last
August, can stand in his way when they meet for the vacant title on Tuesday at
the Albert Hall.