In October 1920, Heeney became the New Zealand heavyweight champion when he beat Brian McCleary of Dunedin on a technical knockout.

Champions since 1920 of heavyweight boxing of 5 most important Associations

In 1920, the minimum weight for a heavyweight was set at 175 pounds ( 12 st 7 lb, 79 kg ), which today is the light heavyweight division maximum.

Lewis captured his first world heavyweight championship recognized on December 13, 1920, defeating Joe Stecher.

Sarnoff and Armstrong first met at a boxing match involving Jack Dempsey in 1920.

* August 23-Bert Schneider wins a gold medal for Canada in boxing at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

* 3 March – Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight boxing championship ( born 1920 ).

The first known mention of “ Young Fidel " is September 18, 1920, by the Los Angeles Times, announcing a boxing / wrestling show at the Italian picnic the next day at Selig Zoo.

For the 1920 Summer Olympics, the venue hosted the boxing and wrestling events.

Das Boxende Känguruh, a 1895 German silent film directed by Max Skladanowsky, and an English silent film produced by Birt Acres in 1896 also both featured kangaroos boxing against men, while the American animated shorts The Boxing Kangaroo ( 1920 ), Mickey's Kangaroo ( 1935 ) and Pop ' Im Pop!

In 1920 the club won their first district championship title by defeating Falkenbergs FF with 4 – 0 in the final and boxing was introduced by the club.

The Walker Law passed in 1920 was an early New York state law regulating boxing.

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

Early boxing champions at various weight divisions were established by acclamation between 1880 and 1920.

First to open the pool was the Swedish Olympic hopeful champion from 1920, Arvid Wallman.

A month before his 39th birthday in 1920, he challenged British champion Joe Beckett.

Oscar Swahn from Sweden, who won the gold medal for running deer shooting, became the oldest Olympic champion of all time, and set another age record by being 72 years and 279 days old during his triumph at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.

* Ockie Anderson Teammate of Fritz Pollard on Union Club of Phoenixville in 1920 and disputed 1920 NFL champion.

The Celts also faced the 1920 APFA champion Akron Pros, Cleveland Tigers and the Evansville Crimson Giants losing handily in each contest.

Six games into the season, the Triangles remained undefeated ( 4-0-2 ) but in the final three games lost twice to eventual league champion, the Akron Pros, ending 1920 with a 5-2-2 mark.

After a flu outbreak in Rio de Janeiro canceled the tournament in 1918, Brazil hosted the tournament in 1919 and was crowned champion for the first time after defeating the defending champions 1-0 in a playoff match to decide the title, while the Chilean city of Viña del Mar would host the 1920 event which was won by Uruguay.

Louis Russell " Russ " Chauvenet ( February 12, 1920 – June 24, 2003 ) was a champion chess player and one of the founders of science fiction fandom.

Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and World Championships.

Owen Guinn Smith ( May 2, 1920 – January 20, 2004 ) was an American athlete, the 1948 Olympic champion in the pole vault.

* Another great champion, Pete Herman defeats Kid Williams over 20 rounds at New Orleans to take the World Bantamweight Championship, which he holds until 1920

One well-known incident was the exclusion of future Olympic champion John B. Kelly, Sr., who had served an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, from the 1920 regatta.

Allen Woodring ( February 15, 1898 – November 15, 1982 ) was an American athlete, the 1920 Olympic champion in the 200 m.

Employers claimed the strikers had revolutionary objectives and military intelligence seconded those charges, so Wood added acclaim as an anti-labor and anti-radical champion to his reputation as a military hero, critic of Wilson, and leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920.

His playing career curtailed by an injury sustained in a car accident, O ' Neill compiled a batting average of. 263 in 1, 586 games, and, in his only World Series appearance in 1920, hit. 333 in seven games as the backstop for the world champion Indians.

In 1920 Grange was a state champion in the high jump, while placing 3rd and 4th in the 100 yard dash and the 220 yard dash respectively.

While playing in the local league he established himself as a champion centre-half-forward before being asked to train at Collingwood by club officials in 1920.

Had win-loss differential, the standard used in baseball, been used, the 1924 title would have gone to yet another team: the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who were four games ahead of eventual champion Cleveland in the standings by that measure ; the Decatur Staleys would have similarly won the 1920 title by virtue of being one game ahead of Buffalo.

It was the home for the Negro National League ( NNL ) champion Chicago American Giants in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, and 1927.

An ardent champion of Afrikaner interests, he joined the National Party in 1915 and was a member of Parliament from 1915 to 1920, from 1921 to 1943, and from 1947 to 1950.

Sewell made his major league debut in 1920 with the World Series champion Cleveland Indians shortly after the death of regular shortstop Ray Chapman and became the team's full-time shortstop the following year.

Although Frank Loomis was an AAU champion in hurdles in 1917 and 1918 and in hurdles in 1920, the main favourite in Antwerpen was John Norton, who had run a new world record of 54. 2 just two months before the Olympics.

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer ( d. 1982 )

* 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1920 – Jack Rowley, English footballer ( d. 1998 )

* 1920 – Jack Warden, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor ( b. 1920 )

* December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor ( b. 1920 )

* Lady Audley's Secret 1920 ( UK, black and white, silent, directed by Jack Denton )

* Jack Lapp ( 1884 – 1920 ), American professional baseball player

Walter Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.

(* McComas had starred in William DeMille's Jack Straw in 1920 )

* Wynne Edwin Baxter ( 1844-1920 ), coroner for several of the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, died at his home in Church Street in 1920.

John Silas " Jack " Reed ( October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920 ) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World.

Shortly thereafter, Lesney co-owner Jack Odell ( b. 1920 – d. 2007 ) created a toy that effectively provided the final, missing link to the company's future.

Jack Dempsey, circa 1920

* Jack Straw, 1920 silent film directed by William Demille based on the 1908 play

* Jack Beresford, rower, Britain's most successful Olympian prior to Redgrave's fourth Gold medal, with three Gold and two Silver medals from 1920 – 1936

* Jack Leslie ( politician ) ( 1920 – 2010 ), mayor of Calgary, Alberta

John Joseph Patrick Ryan ( December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998 ), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor.

* Daredevil Jack ( 1920 )

* Jack Webb ( John Randolph Webb, 1920 – 1982 ), actor and star of Dragnet, who used John Randolph as a pseudonym

Baker made the following G & S recordings with HMV: 1917 The Mikado ( Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush ( part ), and Pooh-Bah ( part )), 1919 The Gondoliers ( Antonio, Don Alhambra ( part ), Duke of Plaza-Toro and Giuseppe ); 1920 The Yeomen of the Guard ( Jack Point and Sergeant Meryll ( part )); 1920 The Pirates of Penzance ( Major-General Stanley ); 1921 Patience ( Bunthorne and Major ); and 1922 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ).

A section of the organization, including key figures such as shop steward movement activist Jack Murphy formed an organised faction called the Communist Unity Group, which ultimately left the SLP to join the CPGB at its founding convention in the summer of 1920.