DEATH WHILE BOXING
While engaged in a friendly Co xl °fs bout with his son, Theodore Roux, aged 49, dropped dead, it wa* stated at an Eynsham, Oxfordshire, inquest last month. , 01 The son, Mr. R. I. Roux, aged Mj told Mr. Harold Franklin, the coroner. "We had a spar together with boxi g gloves. We had" been sparring a . five minutes when my father s slowly to the floor as though he fainted." He added that they otten had a bout for the sake of exe■. 1 His sister and a Roman Catholic p were in the room at the time. , Answering the coroner, he said was no blow to cause his father A verdict of "Death due to tea ease and enlargement of the hrcr recorded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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