"The article, which was written with the well-known restrained Ucacy of sporting page siyle and in disregard of the proso tradition that newspaper battles should be imper-Sonal, is too long to reproduce here, said Judge Milton J, Helmick as, in the course of delivering judgment in the US, Court for China on Oct. he dismissed a complaint brought by: Mr. C. W. Toombs, sports editor of the "Shanghai Times," against Mr. Joe Morang, reporter, and the Eve ning Post & Mercury, Inc.
The case was the first libel suit bbe brought against a local newspaper: for some time, and was a claim for 'U.S.$5,000 as a result of an article written by the first defendant, and published by the second defendant on dune 23, Mr. Toombs alleged that the article heid him up to ridicule. The plaintitt was represented by Mr. N. F. Allman, the defence being conducted by Mr. George F, Richardson,
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