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2007.24.058Description
Pat McMurtry gets his hands tapped before a fight by Frankie “Chi Chi” Britt back in the 1950s. Both McMurtry and Britt had long commitments to boxing. Britt fought in the Tacoma area in the 1920s and coached young boxers for many years. McMurtry got his introduction to boxing along with his younger brother, Mike, on Christmas day in 1939. Pat, who was born in 1933, and his brother both received boxing gloves as a Christmas gift from their father, Clarence. Both McMurtry and Britt are in the Tacoma-Pierce Country Sports Hall of Fame.Lexicon
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