Blast from the past: Tons from AB and Ashwell set up Test win over England

Today in SA sports history: July 20

19 July 2022 - 20:23

1924 — Willie Smith keeps the Olympic bantamweight crown in SA hands as he beats American Salvatore Tripoli in the final of the Paris Games. Countryman Clarence Walker had won the same title four years earlier. As a professional Smith won British recognition of the world bantamweight title to become SA’s only Olympic boxing medallist to win any version of a world title...

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