Mills Starts Training For Woodcock Fight. -- Mills puts in a spot of hard work digging in a vegetable patch beside a tulip bed in the garden of his training quarters today. Freddie Mills, the world's crusier-weight champion, began training today at a hostelry at the foot of Bexhill, a Surrey beauty spot, in preparation for his British heavyweight championship fight with Bruce Woodcock. May 12, 1949. (Photo by Fox).