BOXING DEBACLE
FOULS CHARACTERISE BOUT. REFEREE AND SECONDS ATTACKED. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY 7 , December lb. Four thousand people at Newton IStilium witnessed an offensive exhibition in the fight between Norman Roy and Billy Tyson, advertised as for the light-weight championship of the ’State. . During the early rounds,- Tyson butted his opponent and fouled in other ways. He knocked Roy to the floor with a foul blow, and then attacked the referee, Art -Mawson, and fought him for two minutes. Tyson was disqualified, but he stood over Roy and counted him out. Tyson then attacked his own seconds and it took four of them to hold him down!
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 5
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108BOXING DEBACLE Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 5
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