Boxer On Sit- Down Strike

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 20

Boxer On SitDown Strike

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, October 19. The Korean Olympic fly-weight boxer, Dong-Kih Choh, refused to leave the ring for 45 minutes tonight after he had been disqualified by the Australian referee, Mr A. Tanner.

Choh sat defiantly on his stool and refused to heed repeated orders from the official in charge, Mr N. Nik, to leave the ring. His second and Korean team officials argued heatedly with executives of the International Afiiateur Boxing Association.

Choh sat impassively, occasionally glancing at the uproar taking place in the official seats just below the ring.

Mr Tanner is a brother of the secretary of the Australian Olympic Federation, Mr E. Tanner. He awarded the fight, a quarter-final bout, to the Russian, Stanislav Sorokin, after Imin 6sec of the first round. When the International' Boxing Association’s executive committee refused to' restage the bout, the Koreans finally persuaded Choh to ’eave the ring. But first Choh picked up his stool and ran to the centre of the ring. He then left quietly. Mr Tanner said afterwards: “I had no option but to disqualify him. He refused to stop fighting every time I said ‘stop, stop.’

“He landed half a dozen blows the last time I told him to stop fighting. The book of rules disqualified him, not me.”