BOXING AT SYDNEY
EMPIRE CHAMPIONSHIP FOREMAN WINS ON FOUL (Received May 23. 12.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 22 At the Sydney Stadium this evening tho boxing contest for the light-weight championship of the British Empire was won by A 1 Foreman, the challenger, who gained a verdict oil a foul in the third round from Jimmy Kelso, the titleholder. Kelso made a demonstration when Foreman fell apparently hit below the belt. Officials and the polico were compelled to enter the ring and restrain Kelso, who was menacing Foreman's seconds. The crowd violently hooted Foreman. In the fly-weight championship Wally Walker defeated Midget Brodie in tho ninth round, when the contest was stopped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21498, 23 May 1933, Page 9
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