02.10.2007, 08:32
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
10 June 1952
LEONE, TORRES TEAM TO FIGHT DAMAGE SUIT
"It can't be done!" Wrestlers Baron Michele Leone, 216 pounds, and Enrique Torres, 225 pounds, sang in duet yesterday when the Baron demonstrated he couldn't possibly have "thrown" Torres from the ring in the Ocean Park Arena last January 5.
Leone, Torres and Mike Hirsch, arena proprietor, appeared in Santa Monica Superior Court yesterday for trial of a $30,000 damage suit, brought against them by Ian H. Caldwell and his wife Mary of 11690 Gorham Place, West Los Angeles.
The Caldwells allege they were injured while occupying the seat where Torres landed from the asserted toss.
"If I could forward pass a man like Enrique," the Baron declared, "I'd quit wrestling and try for the SC football team."
Both athletes explained that wrestlers may fall out of a ring but they can't be tossed. Joe Varga, who was refereeing on the night in question, said that if either man had fallen, been tossed or even run out of the ring on the night in question, he, the referee, would surely have known about it.
At request of the attorneys, Judge Stanley Mosk placed the case off calendar until September when it will be reset by stipulation.
Los Angeles, California
10 June 1952
LEONE, TORRES TEAM TO FIGHT DAMAGE SUIT
"It can't be done!" Wrestlers Baron Michele Leone, 216 pounds, and Enrique Torres, 225 pounds, sang in duet yesterday when the Baron demonstrated he couldn't possibly have "thrown" Torres from the ring in the Ocean Park Arena last January 5.
Leone, Torres and Mike Hirsch, arena proprietor, appeared in Santa Monica Superior Court yesterday for trial of a $30,000 damage suit, brought against them by Ian H. Caldwell and his wife Mary of 11690 Gorham Place, West Los Angeles.
The Caldwells allege they were injured while occupying the seat where Torres landed from the asserted toss.
"If I could forward pass a man like Enrique," the Baron declared, "I'd quit wrestling and try for the SC football team."
Both athletes explained that wrestlers may fall out of a ring but they can't be tossed. Joe Varga, who was refereeing on the night in question, said that if either man had fallen, been tossed or even run out of the ring on the night in question, he, the referee, would surely have known about it.
At request of the attorneys, Judge Stanley Mosk placed the case off calendar until September when it will be reset by stipulation.