Iron County Record | 1953-03-12 | Page 10 | La Mar Clark Offered Professional Career by Promotor

LaMar Qark Offered Professional Career by Promoter LaMar Clark, popular Cedar City athlete, who has made quite a reputation as a boxer in the past two years, has been offered a chance to sign a professional contract, it has been reported. Early this week the young athlete, ath-lete, who recently turned 19 years of age, received an offer from a northern Utah manager to sign him to a five-year contract con-tract for professional ring activities. acti-vities. The promotor apparently had been.following Clark's success suc-cess closely, and had decided that he is a promising prospect for a successful ring career. Clark has not made any decision de-cision on the question yet, but Is definitely interested and will investigate the proposal further. He would like to remain in school for another year at least to participate in school athletics, athle-tics, particularly football, but forsake this field for a professional profes-sional ring career.