BOXER WINS CASE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 9

BOXER WINS CASE

Breach of Contract Claim (Received June 12, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, June 12. The suit to recover £3OOO damages for alleged breach of contract brought by the All British Arena Syndicate against Al. Foreman, the British lightweight boxer, ended to-day. The jury returned a verdict in favour of defendant. During the hearing of the suit counsel for plaintiffs declared that when the preparations tor a contest between Foreman and Blay were being made last year. Foreman stipulated that he should receive the decision in' the sixth round, to which plaintiffs agreed formally in order, to get him into the ring. Foreman also claimed 30 per cent, of the takings. He refused to enter the ring until £450 had been paid over in addition to a cheque for £lOO. The cheque was to be returned to plaintiffs if the fight was stopped at the sixth round. Foreman duly claimed a decision in the sixth round on a foul, but the referee ordered the contest to proceed, and gave Foreman the decision on points at the end of the fifteenth. Foreman afterwards refused to return the cheque for £lOO. Giving evidence on his own behalf Foreman emphatically denied the allegation that his fight with Blay was to be a crooked one, to be terminated in the sixth, round. Foreman also repudiated the allegation that he claimed a foul in the sixth. ___ '