VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN.

• ' 1 BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. WHEAT POOL. MELBOURNE, June 28 Mr Cook announced that unless all States agree to the proposed wheat pool, the Federal Government will not assist. LABOR CONGRESS. (.Received This Day at 10.15 a.in.) SYDNEY, June 28. New South Wales delegates to the Union Congress have returned to Sydney. They explained that as an outcome of the Congress all effort will lie made to reconcile all diverse elements of workers to their common interests, allowing each to retain their individual identities on particular matters. FIJI SHIPPING. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 28. Owing to the cessation of banana shipments .tho steamer Levuka has been withrawn from the Fiji service, which in future will he conducted by the steamer Suva from Sydney. INTER -C( ILONTAJ. SAT LIN GS. MELBOURNE, Julie 28. The steamer AVestralin. will be forthwith withdrawn from the MelbourneNew Zealand trade, the Potoona being the only vessel left on that run. Ponding final arrangements, the sailings from Sydney till the middle July will be the Mahono for Auckland on 30th.; Riverina for Auekand, on July 7th and for Wellington on July 13th, . --vr • '*■ "c wrrExx». BOXING. . A, THE MEN’S PURSES. IUSTIIALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received This Day at !).•(() a.m.) NEW YORK, Juno 27 Rickard has announced that he will invert to the original contract and pay Dempsey and ( arpentier purses in-I stead of a percentage, the former re- j ceivinj' three hundred thousand dol- j iars, win or lose, and the laltci two huiidred thousand. Rickard has post-' ed tin 1 ehe(|Ues with Roheit Eagrin. the .<■ t dicholder. • Dempsey boxed during the week-end , heating several spaning partners roughly. ! It is impossible to ascertain what Carponticr is doing in secret, hut it is understood lie has engaged three heavyweight sparring partners. The French-, man appears iic-ieeily til ami extrnDidiltai il.v eolifidelll . Some observe: s claim that Dempsey's wind is poor. Ini the ehani[)ii)n appears icady for a savage light. The pro-, liminaries next Saturday will he unimportant . “FIGHT UNTIL ONE OR OTHER j DROPS.” 1 LONDON, May 7. Georges Carpentier, the famous boxer, leaves France, this morning for New York to prepart* for hi-s fight with Jack Dempsey, heavy-weight champion of the world, at New Jersey on July 2. About the fight and his ‘opponent, Carpentier says : . “Dempsey, whom I have met and talked with, is a lighter in appearance, in temperament, and by choice. Twelve rounds, it is arranged, shall he the limit of the fight, hut the winner will not he the maker of points. He will he the man who lias won by a knock-out. I have no obsessions. The feeling is deep down in me that .1 shall do battl c with a man stronger than any I have yet encountered. Dempsey and I will fight until one or other of us drops. Will we not he lighting for our conn- , try "i

“Immediately upon my arrival in New York l shall go to my training quarters at Manliasset, Long island. AL Descamps (Carpentier’s manager) has taken over a country house for three months. It is a. mile from the sea, and my quarters are all that could be desired. My principal sparring partner will he Paul Journee, one of the biggest, -as well as one of tbo -strongest boxers in Franco. 11 is mission will be so to fashion his boxing as to fit me not for boxing primarily, but fighting of a fierce kind.

"i recognise the .importance of foot? especially on hot (lays, and in my party will be Ala root, “Battling Ala rent” in the boxing world, but a chef wlu> for some time has been in charge, of Doseamps’ Paris kitchen. SPARKING PARTNERS.

“Joe Jeannette, who at Luna Park . in 1914 won against me on points at ' the end of 15 rounds-—a. born fighter, j intelligent, thoroughly capable and even now something of a. wonder—lias offer- j ed his services as a sparring partner at Miinhasson, and I am going to take him. Jeannette was in my corner j when 1 was at New! Jersey and fought. | Battling Lovinsky. So, besides Journee, i shall have this wonderful colour- ! ed man, and my countryman, Marcel , Thomas ,who is at present in tin* j States, it is possible that I shall have ;

other spurring partners; this will depend upon circumstances as 1 find them upon my arrival. “I have been in training more or

less ever since f set out to earn my living as a professional boxer, and I believe that at the end of four or five weeks’ hard work the hardest preparation I have ever undertaken I shall take the ring in the best possible shape. If I lose it will not fie for want of condition.

“I look forward to this fight with Dempsey with an enthusiasm it is rpiitc impossible for me ‘to describe. I would he prepared to make almost any sacrifice rather than ntiss the opportunity of trying for the world’s championship. T made one fortune before the war. r lost it. 1 have made another, and tlii I would readily forfeit rather than furgo a meeting with Dempsey.”