BOXING RING TRAGEDY.
BOY AMATEUR KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cisborne, February 13. Archibald Leonard Forman, aged 16, who was engaged in an amateur tournament last evening, was knocked out, throwing in the towel after the first round. Wlien walking to tihe dressingroom be collapsed, and was subsequently found to be suffering from haemorrhage of the brain. He died early this morning. Forman, earlier in the evening, won the middle-weight contest, and subsequently appeared in the heavyweights against ft. N. Lewis, a much heavier man. This was Forman's first public appearance, in the local ring.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 15 February 1915, Page 4
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94BOXING RING TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 15 February 1915, Page 4
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