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VITAL MATCH FOR McGOVERN
Bourke Claims Empire Crown
TRAINING CUT SHORT THEIR HONEYMOON
Wicked' Wally Beckett
Champions meant nothing to Rostron
GOODMAN DOES IT AGAIN
CLOSE - QUARTER WORK EARNS WIN FOR THURGOOD
JOE ROSTRON of Heywood. That name, to the older fight fan, conjures up memories of the remarkable
" fistic feats of a Lancashire lad who from the middle 'twenties to the middle 'thirties blazed a
triumphant trail across the fistic firmament as a welterweight and later as a middleweight.
No. Joe never became champion, but f r om the time he placed himself under the guidance and t u i t i o n of
Ted McGuinness and Sam Hunter at the age of twelve to t h e time he was t r a d i n g p u n c h e s with such men as
H a r r y Mason. Jock McAvoy and Archie Sexton, he moved in fistiana's best company, and at the peakof his
c a r e e r beat champions and near champions with such consistency that his r e c o r d reads like a scroll of the" G r e a t s ' of that period.
" fistic feats of a Lancashire lad who from the middle 'twenties to the middle 'thirties blazed a
triumphant trail across the fistic firmament as a welterweight and later as a middleweight.
No. Joe never became champion, but f r om the time he placed himself under the guidance and t u i t i o n of
Ted McGuinness and Sam Hunter at the age of twelve to t h e time he was t r a d i n g p u n c h e s with such men as
H a r r y Mason. Jock McAvoy and Archie Sexton, he moved in fistiana's best company, and at the peakof his
c a r e e r beat champions and near champions with such consistency that his r e c o r d reads like a scroll of the" G r e a t s ' of that period.