BOXING.
VUSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HEENEY BEATS COLE. GISBORNE, July 24. A boxing contest between Jack Cole (Australia) and Tom Heeney, heavyweight champion of New Zealand, was hold at Tekaraka on Saturday. It was the initial tourney held under the auspices of the Waikohu Boxing Association, and the contest was held in .a big tent, about twelve hundred people being present. The fight went the full distance and the decision of the Referee (Bert Lowe) favoured Heeney.
CAR.PENTTER IN PARIS. PARIS, July 23. Enthusiastic crowds welcomed Carpentier at Havre. Interviewed, Deseamps described Dempsey a.s a champion of champions. The greatest boxer the world liasf seen, cojmbining science with tremendous strength. Cnrpentier who was nineteen pounds lighter than Dempsey attempted a superhuman task. Nothing was definitely settled for Carpentier’s future. PARIS, July 23. Twenty thousand people welcomed Carpentier home. Do sea nips sfctitea that Carpentier profitably will accept Major Arnold Wilson’s offer to fight some American heavy-weight in London before December. Carpentier declared be meant to fight once more before retiring.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1921, Page 2
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