BOXING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 7

BOXING.

* TOURNAMENT AT IIMARU. TRIBUTE TO O. WHJTKERI. (BY TELEGRAPH —n»I?SS ASSOCIATION.) r TTMARU, June 7. ' At a boxing tourney to-night Weston (Timaru) beat E'nnis (Timaru); An--1 drews (Timaru) beat Lloyd (Timaru); feather-weight, Vincent Parker (Sea- _ down) beat Joe Stewart (Timaru); ' welter, Nelson (West Coast) beat Leckie (Dunedin) ; cat-ch-weight, Eddie Parker (champion light heavy-weight) beat Paterson (Sydney), the latter withdrawing at the tenth round after heavy punishment. 1 At the commencement of the tourney, Mr. Watson (official announcer) made sympathetic reference to the death oi Cyril Whitaker, and the large attend- ? ance stood in silence as a token of reb snect. In tlie Parker-Paterson boul r the boxers took the ring wearing black sashes.