SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 7

SUNDRY SPORTS.

0 BOXINC. THE WELLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIPS. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, June 41. • iTlia Wellington i-ainateuß • boxing tdurney concluded < •to-night; J Results: Bantam-weight.-oW. H. i Brice ( Wellington) i ■ bea»t,f"G. ■■McNicholl (Christchurch) after a good bout, an extra round being fought to decide the winner. Feather-weight.—F. Leary (Wellington) beat B. Tracey (Wellington) after a fight that was willing all through. The winner was clCver, and used bof_; hands well. ’ 1 " 1 Light-weight.— 3. 'Hunter (Wellington) beat J. Smith" (Petone) after a bout that sorely tried both boys. Hunter met and beat MacFarlane in the final, the latter’s towel being thrown in in the second round, v. Middle-weight.—A. Dalziell (Manawatu) beat B. Finnie '(Wellington) after a good fight. Dalziell, the shorter of the two, tired the other man down, and piled on points towards the end.. There was no heavyweight contest, ao competitors coming ■;forward. FOOTBAL. THE LEAGUE GAME. A DISASTROUS DEFEAT. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (United Press Association.! Newcastle, June 11. The New Zealand League footballers were outclassed in all departments if the game by the Combined Northern Districts team. At half-time the score was 23 to nil, and the final score was: Northern Districts 40, New Zealand 17. THE REGISTRATION QUESTION. London, June 11. At the annual meeting of the Manchester Northern Rugby Union, Huddersfield and Wigan, the leading clubs, made a strong atack, hut failed to carry a recision of the committee’s standing order respecting colonial players. As a result of the discussion a two years’ residential qualification prior to registration is now the law in the Northern Union. Mr W. L. Narbey, the well-known Eltham forward, has joined the permanent staff of the Defence Force, and will shortly ho leaving Eltham. THE OLYMPIC GAMES, Berlin, June 11. Germany will hold her own Olympic games.