BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1920, Page 3

BOXING.

N.B.A. TOURNEY TO-NIGHT. This evening the Northern Boxing Association** Christmas tourney will open at the Town Hall. The programme for to-night consists of a tifteen-ronnil lightweight professional bout for f-'OO between M. Rutherford and B. Jarvis, which, in ! that it will be a duel between a clever boxer and a forcing fighter, is expected lo pro vide plenty of action and good boxing. This bout will be preceded by half a dozen I three-round amateur bouts, some of which, j nofni.iv tho— between Whtttome .111,1 McCarthy (feathers) and Graham and I McDonald (welters) are expected to be of I much more than ordinary interest. __. I THE WDSTPORT TOUP.NEY. I (By Telegraph. —Press Association I WESTPOKT. Monday. The Westport boxing tourney was hei.l . to-ni<rht, when six bouts were fought, each ' 'of two minutes. Flanagan (Waiurai beat , I'M. Dunn (Westporti on points; I'earce i I 'WelUn-gronl nnd Leckie (-Dune-dim fought a) ■ [draw: King iDennlstoni won on poiuts from hjloore fßlnck-balli: Griffiths (Birchfieldi did - ■likewise from -XeiWon fßlaeklia'li: liohho , • ) (Blai-kbal!) outt-d M.Aleer in vie tiftli ■ I round: Senior iWestpom uuted North tOunedluj in the scond rotm<i.