BOXING
PROFESSIONAL LIGHT-WEIGHT CONTEST. / v
<»T MLEORAPB-—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN; 12th August. A fifteen-round professional, lightweight boxing contest between Mick Rutherford (New South Wales)' and Les Murray (Dunedin) was fought in His Majesty's Theatre to-night^ before a capacity house. The contest only lasted nine rounds, Rutherford being unable to continue further. The local man was aggressive from the start, the visitor haying to box on the retreat; and the points of each round were secured by Murray, whose short jolts gradually wore his opponent down. At the end of tly> ninth round Rutherford's seconds threw- in the towel.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 12
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97BOXING Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 12
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