Dick Hayes

(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)

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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