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Promoter Seeks to Attach Maxims Title Fight Purse CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 24. — UP — Sam Becker, Cincinnati fight promoter, said today he is seeking to attach Joe Maxims purse on the latters title bout with Ezzard Charles in Chicago, May 30. "My lawyer, Charles Hyman, is in Chicago today filing suit for 0,000," Becker said. Becker charges Maxim failed to honor a contract giving the Cincinnati promoter the exclusive right to promote his fights for 15 months. The contract was to have begun March 23, 1949, the date on which •1 Maxim beat Gus Lesnevich here in a bout promoted by Becker.
