The Reg Warry story
Reg moved to Bracewell near Mt Larcom and then to Gladstone where he worked at the butter factory. Athletics appealed to him and he became a pretty good runner cracking a 10 second, 100-yard sprint bare foot when he was just 14 and then went on to win many local races, even competing interstate.
He gave the running away to take on boxing when he was about 17. Locally, he won 4 boxing tournaments and moved to Melbourne to train professionally at Arnold Palmer’s Gym. Thanks to his quick reflexes and the strength of his punch he again excelled, but after hospitalising an opponent he decided to hang up the gloves.
Reg returned to Gladstone and worked at the abattoir in the fertiliser section. He said it was a horrible job and the smell would linger on his body for days. It did however pay about 4 times the average earning at 17 pounds, 14 shillings and 6 pence a week. This allowed him to buy his first motorcycle (a
