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Show fc Kp sy ? fc . . fc . Ex-Middleweight Champ Trains Behind Plow for Title Bout V ' -m- ! ' , v t-7 . i ' . - ' r- -V ? ... 7 - -': r v r:- v i. : "V,; 77 ?- : " . 7 Tl i " s , - .-: . -. ,. A ' ' - T ! ( 1 ' , ! i -.' t""5 1 . s s I ' 1 . 1 s ' V - v . 1 1 ' " t. 4 . 1 - ' ' ( - - 4 . AI Hostak, ex-middleweight champion, who will seek to regain his crown from Champion Solly Kreiger in a Pacific nortnwest title bout June 27, is shown hard at work on his farm near Arlington. Wash. It is not a publicity stunt, but actual hard work that the Seattle fighter puts in on his 25-acre ranch. Look at his bulging muscles in the picture at right. When he comes out of the Cascade foothills to meet the Brooklyn boxer who lifted his title last fall, Hostak, rJ ready one of the baldest punchers the game has ever seen, wll( be hard as steel. Ha had a string of 17 knockouts in a row until he broke both hand in losing to Kreiger. |