AUTOGRAPH HUNTER
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
AT some point in the winter of 1973, I jumped out of a car at a set of traffic lights in Camberwell Green in south London and stopped a skinny man in a hooded tracksuit from doing his run.
The man was Johnny Clark and he was training for a British bantamweight title fight against Paddy Maguire at the Royal Albert Hall. Clark won; the fight is acknowledged as a classic. Little Johnny, the darling of the Royal Albert Hall.
I got Clark’s autograph that day on a piece of paper, a page from a school exercise book it looks like. I cut it out
