BOXING.
COOK BEATS LLOYD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. ISI An application was lodged In the Supreme Court against the boxer Cook by R. Eyre, .lis former .manager, who sought an lnjuurti'jii to stop the contest arranged with Lloyd on the ground ttat Cook was bound by agreement to box under Eyre's management in all his contests. As the case could not bo immediately heard »r. order was issued ImI'Oiinuing the nrlzo money until the cast came off.
As no prohibition was issued against Losing the contest it came off, and Coo'c won after 15 rounds.
ALLEGED BREACH OF AGREEMENT. Wellington, Dee. IS. A motion by Robert R. OEyre, manazor tor the heavy-weight boxer George Cook, for an injunction to restrain Cool; from 'committals a breach of agreement in participating in last night's fight, or In the alternative £.IOO damages, was removed from tt:o Supreme Court to-day, the parties having submitted the case to arbitration. Plaintiff based his action on the allegation that Cook had failed to observe the conditions of an agreement made on July 1, 1820, under which Eyre was to act as Cook's manager.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1920, Page 3
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