- Jerry Jerome (boxer)
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Jerry Jerome (24 May 1874 – 27 September 1943) was the 1912 Australian middleweight boxing champion. Born just outside Dalby, Queensland he was the first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title. He died in Cherbourg, Queensland.[1] In his professional career he had 24 losses and 40 wins, with 34 by knock-out.[2]
External links
References
- ^ Sports Factor, ABC.com, Interview with Professor Colin Tatz, and others. 19 May 2006.
- ^ "100 Not out", A century of sport from the State Library of Queensland.
Categories:- 1874 births
- 1943 deaths
- Indigenous Australian people
- Indigenous Australian boxers
- Australian boxers
- Oceanian boxing biography stubs
- Australian sportspeople stubs
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