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WEEK'S LAUGH
Had
Feet
C lay
Of
DUKE JENNINGS, middle-weight
champion of Victoria more than 10
years ago. b 1 winner of this wefk's
laugh.
I RIGHTING mostly in couutry
Ufs, Duke saw and did some
funny things. Here is one of his gems
"Billy Gray was the fistic pride o(
Outtrim. a small Victorian town. He
had run out of local opponents anil
•was teaching boxing in 1901 when a
swaggie blew into the town unnoticed.
Pretty soon it was learned Hint the
swaggie could fight a bit. Next Uung
we knew he had been malcheri Willi
Billy Gray) for a tenner a side. When?
the swaggie got his £10 from is -.till
a mystery.
"The fight was held at KoruinUurr.i,
a few miles away, and it drew a
packed house. Billv Gray, the local
idoL • - - came in ~ first. - ~
-.----• He walked to U,
front limit of ui the wit ring.
'Gentlemen, he bellowed. this
fellow can fight at all you will
,good scrap; T h e mob cheered Bill to
the ech0
"Then in came the swaggie Km**-
^ d d t , d , , ked
in want of a feed than a fiRl,l. But.
wiien the first gong went lie was
galvanised Into action. Crash went
'ju5t one righton Gray's cliin and it
i,as al, ov£r ^ idol lla<1 teel of
cl^V"He"wasn't Vheered' ,
It was learned later that the swaggii;
was Dan Leno, a fighter with a gomi
record
Send in your laugh to Merv Wil-
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