TROUBLE AT A FIGHT.
SERIOUS RIOT TAKES PLACE. LONDON,. Dec. 20. There was pandemonium at Hoxton Baths through the referee awarding a light to M. Descamps’s protege Sullivan against Bob Jackson, a youngster from Tilbury. Such a riot has not been seen iff London for years. The infuriated crowd viciously attacked the promoter, beating him unmercifully with a long pole, It was difficult to believe that the hall contained Britishers. For ten minutes there was every prospect of most serious happenings, until a strong force of police rushed in and restored order, v
The trouble began when a supporter of Jackson knocked the referee headlong out, of his chair; then several boxers at the ringside entered the melee. This was the signal for a general commotion. The bouts of fisticuffs, however, were of small importance, compared with the fighting with the legs of chairs. Critics wore amazingly divided at the referee’s decision* —A. and N.Z. cable. \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 904, 28 December 1923, Page 5
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