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Aggressive, hard - punchingEarl Tye has developed into one of Sandusky's? leading threats on the eight-bout Red Shield Boy’s Club benefit card at Link’s Hall Monday night. Tye, along with seven other Sanduskians, will play a feature role in the 1947 fight inaugural here.J ohnny, Nichols, ex-world’s lightheavyweight boxing champ, will handle Tye in Monday’s bout with Bob Aldrich of Akron. The five-round collision stacks up as a ’‘natural” since both boys are rugged, elassy mittmen eager to continue their victory strings.The popular Tony DeMore-Jim Drossman duo is in charge of the stellar program, sponsored for the benefit of Sandusky’s only boys’ athletic club. Several of the area’s leading amateurs are listed for action against a battery of local opposition.Steve Shaw, promising local welterweight, exchanges blows with Harry Meggitt of Fremont*; Dale Chancey meets Lenny Doyle of Akron; Clint McCula pairs off with Gus Nichols of Fremont; Joe Smith battles Russ Borgia of Norwalk; Fred Ferdinnadsen faces Charles Clover of Fremont; and Gorilla Brown puts the gloves on with K. O. Sullivan in the prelim.Headlining the program is a five-round tussle between lethal-punching George Nichols of Fremont and veteran, hard-slugging Frankie Noble of Lorain. The main event is in the 147-pound class and local mitt fans are assured of rough house action with these two battling demons tagged together.
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Sandusky Register Star News
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 03, 1947
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