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strong record against featherweights soon also ensured that opportunities among the featherweight division's talent pool would be so costly that Patten would be forced to waive his own share of the profits in order to secure each ensuing bout. This would in time also lead Patten to spend a year in the
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A promising rugby league player in country New South Wales, Patten once scored 100 points in half a season as a halfback and played representative football in 1956 against the touring Maori team from New
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Later in life Patten resided in the Blue
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