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DEFEATED FIGHTER UNFIT FOR MATCH WITHIN SIXDAYS, SAYS JUDGE RYANDecision Is Given in Case of Eddie Forrest, Who Sued Tommy Ryan for $60, Claiming Breach of Contract —Tom” Gives Expert Testimony..ludA'o hlyiui in Municipal -.Tourl today hold that a pugilist badly whipped .six days before, thereby rendered himself Inyrapabl© Qi lt;'nrryin=? out a contract to fight in Syracuse.Judge Ryan pave Tummy Ryan, erstwhile middleweight champion of the sv or Id-, the decision this morning in the .case of Eddie Forrest of Philadelphia ft.gp.lnsi Tommy. Forrest, so 10 speak, was counted out and did not get $60 which he claimed for breach of contract against Ryan. 'The action tvoj; brought «*KainstTommy Ryan unrivr hi* rcul name of Joseph youngs. This* may have handicapped Tommy somewhat, but h© was confident when he appeared in the ring or witness box, -*»r whatever you want to call it, before Judge Ryan.Matched With Feeney.Llt;ast fall Forrest was to have foughtJack Fequej r*f Skaiioalclos Tor lightweight honor* at the Alhambra. This was on November 10th. One of the fighters In another bout'’ scheduled for that night became sick and the fight was postponed to November 17th. Feeney hurl hie arm and Ryan told Forrest he would substitute Frankie McCann of Rochester. He also couponed ~'orr«et not to eogano in any other fight .before hie contest with McCann here.But Forrest accepted a match to fight McCann before the Rochester club on November tltb, The match was achofiuled for ten rounds, but at the ond of the third Iho referee stopped it because Forrest was getting very much the worst of It.Wired for Substitute.When Tommy Ryan heard of For-reel's ©ngagamont at Rochester - he didn’t like It. He wired Now York for another man to meet McCann hero and Informed Forresl that he was dropped from the local card because he had broken tho agreement not to flcrhi anyone else before the bout hero.On the stand tMs#momln« I he ghost or Tommy's sorest spot wM revealed. Thin-was in the Court's effort to sift the proof as to whother Forrest really was in physical condition to fight here after being beaten by McCann six days before. The Court asked Tommy Ryan for expert, advice.;'bg. It tats on Long Inland in JS?7, when McCoy bested Ihe local middle-weighL !n fifteen rounds.Judge Gives a Decision. Referees are barred from giving decisions In this Stale, but Judge Ryan disregarded the ruling of the State Boxing commission, ond rendered a Judgment to-day.Fvrrcsi should have kept himself in physical condition to carry out hlH contract.*' Judge Ryan declared in rendering his decision five minutesafter botn contostnnts lio.d shakenIrand« at the end of the IftOl round. Having been badly whipped In Rochester. he thereby rendered himself incapable of carrying out hi* contract in ■ Syracuse. 7n addition, Forrest ©greed pot to enter into an encounter with McCann at Rochester with whom hr was booked to fight in Syracuse.” • Thu* ended Tommy Ryan’s comeback, also iho *horthvlt;*i experience of Judge Ryan as a refer©©, and loo, Forrest’s hopes for 60 with which he was lo have returned to Philadelphia, his native home.Thompson, Woods Woods were tho seconds f^r Tommy Ryan.DAUGHTER NOT PROPERLY CARED FOR. SAYS COWLES1 — *s* • MrV-H Yftfllv OOf** Inmy' lift/ jfjLld. iho former champion.And I couldn’t have fought a wwk after find done myself Justice. Why,T couldn't even get -around, saynothing Of putting th© ml tin on ana mixing it with anyone, let alon© with the nama man that had whipped me. It would have been plftln cheating to allow Forrest to go on with McCann after he wo* trimmed in Rochester, and the public wouldn’t have stood for it any more thAn I will stand for Forrest demanding money he did not earn. I should havo been accused of murder if T had let him mix it with McCann so soon after his fight In Rochester.ftafsrrsd 1« McCoy Fight. , Ryan referred to-his fight with *lt;KMM McCoy w jitii iif reva»i»M ms omy »oi-When the ease of Mrs. Elnie 1. Cowles, who ask.: *37$ from her husband, Theron D. Cowles, fof th© board bill of their deceased doughicr, lo heard in Municipal court, Mr. Cowles's defense will he that his' wife did not provide a suitable home for their daughter.Tho art Ion was scheduled for irlal to-dfty, but 11 was postponed for. another week. Cowles, however, filed |on answer to Ills wife's charges. 11© (alleges that when they broke up t housekeeping and ho loft his family August 31st, 1911, it was mutually agreed that his wife wos to provide a suliable home for his daughter and watch and protect her. as a mother should, but that eh© failed to do so.He admits that ho did not pay . his wlfo $3.60 a week, the stipulated sum tor m* uaugmer a board, and adds that, as soon as he found out that sho was not iving up to her agreement, tw refused f* mnk© th* allowance.Mrs. Cowles has been living with her parents since the separation. Her daughter died January 24th. And sh© immediately started, the action for board, claiming that, her husband had failed to prevlde for the girl. who. was then H years of age, for *09 weeks. This made him Indebted to her in the sum of 1373, she claim* Morwood V, Jones is attorney for Mrs. Cowles and John W. Reynolds represents th© husband.DRISCOLL LOOKS OVER FUNDRecords of the police pension fund were yon© over lo-uay by Clement W-rw(trnll. far thr MhpIHmI
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Syracuse, New York, US
Mon, Feb 09, 1914
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