Fight to get boxer into history books
The following evening, he was expected to trade blows with Italian-American Frankie Genaro inside a London ring for the flyweight championship of the world – a title that the Edinburgh boxer had won the previous year.
Hill looked a clear favourite to keep the crown, only 23 months after turning professional.
But after finishing his early morning training session, he decided to go for a brief jog in the snow to cool down and clear his head for the fight before heading back to his home in Strathmigloe, Fife, where he had moved from Edinburgh a few years earlier.
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