Harry Carpenter's Died

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news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8580058.stm



Not that I'm into boxing, but he was a lovely little fella.





Where else would you get football, boxing and skiing in one programme?

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Oh, I heard this today. Mind you, he was 84 wasn't he? However, he always seemed a nice genuine man and the whole boxing thing is, to me, so much tied up with my dear late dad (who boxed in his youth and was a devotee of the sport) that I felt very sad when I heard of Harry's death. It seems he was a respected and well loved person.

There was another 'Harry' - Harry Gibbs, who died in 1999 - probably the most famous boxing referee in this country. He was a docker all his life, and my dad, also a docker, knew him personally.