BOXERS’ PURSES ARE STOLEN IN COURSE OF FIGHT
jITR Mark Shanack, an official of the Pavilion Sports Arena, Whitechapel Road, London, told a “Daily Mail” reporter that the boxers’ purses and the entire takings from a crowded house were stolen while contests were being held at the arena recently. The money, amounting to nearly £2OO, had been placed in a bag in the private office there of Mr Victor Ross, the promoter of the contests. “Toward the end of the contests I saw Mr Ross rushing downstairs,” said Mr Shanack. “ ‘The purses and takings are gone,’ he cried.”
Mr Shanack added that there was no cash to pay out the boxers, who included the well-known local men Jack Hyams and Johnny Quill.
A BOUT 500 acres of forest land at the north end of Pippingford Park, Nutley, Sussex, were laid waste by a fire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 10 (Supplement)
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