Boxers’ Purses are Stolen in Course Of Fight
Mr Mark {Shanack, an official of the Pavilion Sports Arena, Whitechapel Road, London, told a Daily Mail reporter that the boxers’ purse 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 contest I saw Mr Ross rushing dowifStairs,” 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 weil-known local men Jack Hyams and Johnny Quill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 10
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