FAMOUS REFEREE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1932, Page 6

FAMOUS REFEREE

LIVING ON 14s A WEEK

LONDON, August 8

Hr Eugene Corri, who, has refereed more boxing championship fights thuipany other man, and who numbers royi alty among Ms friends, >ya«j summonfed; at "Southdnd to-day in respect of a' judgment obtained in connection witha butcher’s bill for £lO, : Mr Corri - who has been struck down by illness, is living in a small flat hehf qn a. few sbillingg a week. He is un.< Able to do very much to supplement r his small income.

And' yet in his pocket he carries a cable from Hugh Macintosh, Australia’s foremost boxing promoter. It is an invitation to go to the Commonwealth and referee, a world A championship fight. It also offers Mr 6orri a six months’ touring engaged meat. He- received it only a few months ago, but is tm distressed that he 'wart unable to accept the offer because of illness . ..- ' *.y Now fuithler dfstrOss hag been-added to the heavy burden he is bearing in his seventy-fourth year.. A bailiff gaive* evidence in timSouthend County Conirt -to-day tba%.Jie had seen Mr Corri, who -was too ill to attend, but who bad stated that .his income Was £2 4*3 a week. His rent was. 30s, leaving a balance of 14s a week for. him to live on,. An order Was made for Mr Corri to pay 4s a month.' “It is terrible, too terrible,” Mr Corri' said when interviewed to-night. “I, who once had everything I wanted—a large and beautiful -limn*!, servants and horses, and was very wealthy T) ow seem to get nothing but illness and bad luck. ; v r ”