Joe Newton

Joe Wallis, boxing referee and host of the Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills

JOE Wallis (pictured), hosted the Cricketers’ Arms Hotel, in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills during the 1940s. The popular publican was born Joseph John Newton, to working-class parents, at St Peters. As a teenager, he boxed for money and… Read More ›

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