London, Mar. 21, A sixteen-year-old ex-choirboy and schools international Rugby player, who weighs 10 stone 7 lb., looks like becoming a heavy-weight champion in time, He is Ritchie Bevan, of Tony-pandy, Wales, who in spite of his youth, has already lost his amateur Status. At the age of fourteen he entered for the Welsh schoolboys' championships, and was regarded as a certain winner. Before the championships were due, however, he went io a boxing hall to watch some professional boxing.
One of the boxers failed to turn London, Mar. 21.
The Football Association will be 75 years old on October 26. Members are already considering plans for the celebrations.
There will be a banquet which is expected to eclipse the glory of the Jubilee dinner held in 1913, hut the date has not yet been published. One excellent idea is that a match should , be played between Great Britain and ihe Rest of Europe. As the F. A. is very well known on the Continent, this idea is likely to be received with much favour there.—Reuter. up for his fight, and Bevan was persuaded by the promoter to take his place. Gone were his chances for the schoolboys' title, and with it his amateur status.
TODAY AT 3, 5, 7 and 9 pin.
He has engaged in eighteen contests since then, winning them all. Now the Harringay promoter, Syd Hulls is interested in him, and it is very likely that more may be heard of him in the near future.—Reuter.
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