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Immortal in colour

Miles Templeton

Boxing historian

I WAS recently contacted by John Vail, a very generous man. He had a hand-coloured photograph of a long-forgotten fighter, Gammy Smith of Cambridge, which he wished to go to a good home. Gammy was an old friend of John’s father and, when Gammy died in 1988, he did not leave a family behind to pass the photograph on to, and so John wished

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