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(b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****).  Boxer.  Dick Heyns was a South African boxer whose career is known to have stretched from 1904 to 1920.  In 1909 he beat Maurice Christian in a fight for the vacant South African heavyweight title.  Possibly credited as Dick Hayes, he fought the popular [[Jack Lalor]] in the film ''The Stolen Favourite'' ([[Joseph Albrecht]]/1919). (FO)  
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(b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****).  Boxer.  Dick Heyns was a South African boxer whose career is known to have stretched from 1904 to 1920.  In 1909 he beat Maurice Christian in a fight for the vacant South African heavyweight title.  Possibly credited as Dick Hayes, he fought the popular [[Jack Lalor]] in the film ''The Stolen Favourite'' (1919), a sporting drama directed by [[Joseph Albrecht]]. (FO)  
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 15:53, 10 September 2014

(b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****). Boxer. Dick Heyns was a South African boxer whose career is known to have stretched from 1904 to 1920. In 1909 he beat Maurice Christian in a fight for the vacant South African heavyweight title. Possibly credited as Dick Hayes, he fought the popular Jack Lalor in the film The Stolen Favourite (1919), a sporting drama directed by Joseph Albrecht. (FO)

Sources

South African Pictorial, 15 February 1919

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

http://www.superboxing.co.za/boxing/history/news/050106/Pen_pics_of_all_SA_heavyweight_champs

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