Woorabinda – Boxing – Description (Roy McIvor memories) – 1942-50
Item
Sport
Communities Involved
Woorabinda See all items with this value
Palm Island See all items with this value
Cherbourg See all items with this value
Year
1942
Place
Woorabinda, Queensland See all items with this value
Title
Woorabinda – Boxing – Description (Roy McIvor memories) – 1942-50
Description
Roy McIvor recalls inter-settlement boxing bouts held at Woorabinda on Saturday afternoons when he lived there as a boy c. 1942-1950.
Always a good referee.
George Sibley from Palm Island was the champion fighter.
David Twaddle the only Cherbourg boxer whom he recalls seeing fight in Woorabinda.
Billy Rooked was an "old trainer who gave tough training sessions".
Always a good referee.
George Sibley from Palm Island was the champion fighter.
David Twaddle the only Cherbourg boxer whom he recalls seeing fight in Woorabinda.
Billy Rooked was an "old trainer who gave tough training sessions".
Source: Roy McIvor, Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York (Broome, WA: Magabala Books, 2010), pp. 92-93.
Named Individuals
Twaddle, David See all items with this value
Sibley, George See all items with this value
Darkan, Bedford See all items with this value
Darkan, Stanley See all items with this value
Wallace, Phillip See all items with this value
Jack, Bindi See all items with this value
Jack, Walter See all items with this value
Rooked, Billy See all items with this value
