The Man you Loved to Hate was always Billed from NEWCROSS wasn't he?
NO!-is the Answer-Here in a 1949 Programme-We see a Youthful MICK-WITH Hair and not
Barrel-Chested 'Hailing from' IRELAND!
In those Days Promoters could 'Dream-Up' Anything couldn't they?
He looks a 'Solid' MIDDLEWEIGHT here!
MAIN MASK
Hussey, Garfield ... looks like at that time that promoters liked to push villains as Australian convict types. The convict sterotype seems almost to have disappeared this century but I remember it being strong years ago.