New York, Apr. 1
Little is known by boxing enthusiasts outside California of Jack Roper who is already being described in America as "the next sacrifice to be: offered-up to Joe Louis" who is io meet the champion for the world tile in a ten rounds contest at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, on April (Roper, who started boxing fifteen years ago, was born in 1903 in Pinchatoula (Louisana), and was christened Cecil Byron Hammond.
Later he assumed the ring name of his more illustrious brother, Captain Bob Roper, who was champion of the American Expeditionary Force.
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