BOXING
JOHNSON TO FIGHT McVEA. By 1 Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, December 30. Johnson fights McVea at Sydney on Easter Monday. Johnson receives£6ooo and £IOOO training expenses. BRITISH EMPIRE CHAMPIONSHIP. Received 2, 2.10 a.m. Sydney, January 1. Smith beat Lester for the championship of 'the British Empire in the fourteen round on a foul. Smith led on points. BLOCKING- THE FIGHT. Received 2, 2.10 a.m. ; (Sydney, January 1. Church authorities are taking immediate Aeps with a view to preventing the Johnson-McVea fight.
BOUTS AT TIMARU. / Timaru, Last Night. At the boxing tournament to-night a very fine contest was witnessed between Lister (Timaru) and Boreham (Otago champion), middle-weights. It was a ■clean, square go, Lister Wihning "oif points. In the feather-weight division Armstrong (Dunediin) met Bennett (Timaru). The former gave in, as his ribs were bent in the third round.
In the heavy-weight go Mathewson (Otago champion), who played himself out early, got so punished that lie gave in in the fifth round.
Some local light-weights filled up the programme.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 2 January 1912, Page 8
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168BOXING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 2 January 1912, Page 8
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