SYDNEY BOXING FATALITY.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION IN " FUTURE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Sydney, March 23. At the inquest on the boxer, Victor .Tacobson, who died after a fall during a contest with Jack Whittaker, tho verdict was that death was the result of accident. Tho medical ovidenco was to the effect that, though the fall had been tho direct cause of death, the deceased was in an unhealthy condition, and totally unfit to tako part in a boxing contest. One result of the incident is that the Stadium management has decided that there must bo a strict examination of contestants prior to boxing contests in the future. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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