NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1920, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

CARBENTIER S ANGER

NE\V YORK, Oct. 16

Although Georges Caipontier, tho French heavy-weight, knocked out “Battling” Levinsky at Jersey City on Tuesday in a most fair fight, ugly rumours have appeared and much also has been written. It is amazing that sporting writers who saw the match, as I did, should lend their pens to the dissemination of silly talk of a “frame up,” as it is called here, (that is, a prearranged result).

It would appear as if the recent baseball scandal disclosures had rather unnerved a large section of the American sporting community, and Carpentier has issuod a 'denial,* which says: “For the first time in my life imputations have been mado against the honesty of a match in which I have taken part. AVhat, I did to Levinsky I did to other champions. There was no cry of fake. AVhy should a few men bo permitted to cast aspersions on my character which will he spread before all tho world?

“Before I came to the United States I looked upon all Americans as the personification of sportsmanship. I did all you asked me to do. I fought the man you selected and this is what I get. Give mo a suqare deal; that’s all I ask. Levinsky also denied that it was a “frame-up.” LONG EVENING FROCKS. BARIS, Oct. 16. Timid efforts seem this season to have been made for evening frocks to touch the ground, and all the now models havo dangling tassels, strings of heads, or ends of lace flounces which constantly get gncler the wearer’s feet. These trailing ornaments are far hard er to manage when dancing than the old-fashioned train skirts, to which dress-makers will doubtless shortly ieturu. Many women are choosing trousered skirts, for ba.ll dresses, and successful efforts are being made in tulle and lace, with sash ornaments. With these the dangling wisp, of perishable material is cut to clear the ground, and tb.ns arrayed the dancer has no fear of wrecking her toilette during tho first dance.