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By Mike C Ryan
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Month
to go for
Mister Walker
JOE BRIDGES
is getting trimmer by the day as he trains for
his Great Walk to Fight Cancer.
Bridges will be travelling five hundred miles
from Adelaide to Melbourne next month. On foot.
Joe Bridges is 73.
Once in Melbourne, Bridges and Fighting Father
David Smith, the Anglican priest from Dulwich
Hill (Sydney), are due to box. . Their scrap
goes live in the morning on the Channel 9 Network
television show, "Today"
Tireless Joseph will walk alongside the former
Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Foster Bibron.
Big Fos has leave as trainer of the national
football side, Port Power to escort his pal.
Joe has already gloved up and boxed Nermin
Sabanovic the former OPBF cruiserweight champion;
to earn a picture story in the Adelaide Advertiser.
Joe Bridges has two motives to Fight Cancer.
He recently battled prostate cancer. In recovery
he’s walking for cancer funds. His dear
wife Julie died of breast cancer five years
ago.
To raise funds for both research causes -
and he's aiming at six figures - Joe is taking
on the marathon walk that would deter most Australians.
Could you walk forty kilometres every day covering
750 kms?
Veteran Joe Bridges intends to walk it in three
weeks..
The editor of 'Amateur Boxer' magazine [which
he and Julie founded in 1978], is a stayer.
Way back in his RAAF national service days
at Point Cook airfield, Vic, Aircraftsman Recruit
Bridges’ squad completed a 25-mile route
march. The sergeant challenged: “Who’ll
volunteer to march back?” Young Joe and
one other stood up, out of pride.
Once they’d rounded the bend, the sarge
said: “Those slackers can clean up. We’re
off to the pub!”
Half a century on the spirit is still willing.
Boxing’s Mister Walker will set off from
Adelaide in April, and follow a route through
Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Keith, Bordertown,
Horsham, Ararat and Ballarat, to Melbourne.
If you live on that route your local media
will announce his progress. Go spend a day or
an hour walking al ng with Joe.
For more Information
call the Bridges program on 08 8325 2702
or e-mail www.joeb123@tpg.com.au
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