The Archive · 1940

Crown in Furious Contest

Two Cricket Games Henry Arm trong Loses Welter [Set for Today

England to Play the Rest On S.C.C. Ground; Police "Hurricane Henry" Takes Worst Beating of Career To Take on Recs Fritzie Zivic Batters Negro Champion to Pulp Despit the lateness of the on it is good to learn that tw cricket games have been arrang d for toy, the Recs playing the Police in an, all-day encounter on the former's ground, pla: while at be known a j will meet venue.

The England Rest likely to attract considera of the in action a New York, Oct. 5.

RITZIE Zivic decisively beat Henry Armstrong and won the world welter-weight championship in a furious fifteen-round battle at the Madison Square Garden last night.

Armstrong, only man in the world to have held three different world boxing titles simultaneously, walked out of the ring without a single championship.

"Hurricane Henry" suffered the worst beating in his 11-year boxing career. He emerged from the ring groggy and with his face beaten to pulp.

His face resembled a raw piece of meat with blood dripping from it.

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