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- ↑ "Belsize B.C. Annual General Meeting" . Sporting Life. 9 October 1903. p. 4. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- ↑ "Boxing - The Amateur Championships" . York Herald. 20 April 1891. Retrieved 29 December 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ https://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/sport/the-val-barker-trophy-3383078
- ↑ "Val Barker Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
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