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Show AWARD JUDGMENT TO DICK BUTLER Given $2,5.00 for His Efforts in English Fight. An echo of the Tom Gibbons-Jack Cloomlield fight at Wembley stadium, London, in August, 192-1, resounded in New York fistic circles the other day, when Dick Butler, well known in pugilistic and political affairs, was awarded a judgment of $2,500 against Eddie Kane, manager of Gibbons and Sammy Jlandell, lightweight champion. cham-pion. T.utler claimed the $2,500 as a commission com-mission or fee for his efforts in the early negotiations, which resulted in making the match. Judge Harmon Clack of the Supreme court agreed with Butler without sending tlie case to tlie jury, despite the earnest testimony testi-mony of Charles Harvey, manager of Tom Hecney, on behalf of Kane. The Butler judgment adds another unfortunate "break" to the long string suffered by Kane and Gibbons in their invasion of England three years ago. Gibbons was t" have received SotUHJU for fighting Hlooiulield, bul according to Kane's testimony, the most he got was $21,000. It was reported at the lime of the bout that Gibbons and Kant only received $15,000. The Oibbons-Pltionilield match fell far below expectations, both as a tight and linancial venture. Britisli experts believed that Bloomlield might break the rules of the Beckett school and re main erect rather than horizontal while in the ring. It was thought that Bloomlield could sleep in a bed which luul not been sprinkled with resin dust to make him feel at ease. In his- training camp he passed the test of hearing the clang of doorbellls and alarm clocks without crashing instinctively in-stinctively to a horizontal posture, la the first two rounds against Gibbons, Bloomlield remained perpendicular, but this was largely because Gibbons mau aged to keep bis itching gloves from Bloomfiehl's chin. At the opening of the third refund Gibbons signaled friends at the ringside ring-side that it was time to go home. Then he smacked BloomSeld on the chin and another British heavyweight was in his natural positon of repose, bis shoulder blades on his1 canvas mat-I mat-I ress. |