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Chris Greyvenstein Sports Editor of the Cape Times, stands out as the best SA author of boxing books. He wrote "The Brutal Glory" (1957).'The author has gathered material on hitherto forgotten dramas of South African boxing and reconstructed them in a graphic, colourful way'.Also story of James R Couper joned fortune hunters of Gold Fields before Boer War perpetrate a swindle which rocked the Witwatersrand. Fighter from District Six.
TEXT WITH ILLUSTRATED BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS: Ten Years of Mike Holt, The night willie topped the bill at Madison Square Gardem, The last of the giants with two photos of Mike Holt and Willie Toweel knocks Lenny Matthews cock-eyed with snappy left. Willie gave perhaps finest performance ever by a SA boxer in a foreign ring. Fifteen rounds to triumh with Rocky Marciano slaps Joe Walcott photos Manual Ortiz staggers from attack of little Vicci Toweel, Bantamweight title for SA, Dream we shared, Dark Fury, The Hunger Trail, Photo The fight goes on . Don Mcorkindale heavyweights photo.
Cape Town: Buren Publishers, 1969 red Hardback First Edition with dust cover good condition 162 pages, well-binded, clean clear book, no writing, pages all light yellowed in same way, on edges. Dustcover has wear to edges and folds with story on front inside flap with photo of author and late Rocky Marciano on back of dust jacket.
