BOXING.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION
HERMAN BEATS LYNCH, NEW YORK, July 25
Pete Herman won back the world’s bantam-weight championship, on points, from Joe Lynch, in a fast 15-rotmd bout.
ENGLISH NOTES. LONDON, July 26
Ted Moore, welter-weight, has refused to go to Australia without a guarantee of £250(1, though he has signed a contract.
Hubert Barry, who is taking out stadium boxers, sternly criticises Moore’s default in a letter to “Sporting Life.”
This paper also states that people are discussing adversely Beckett’s desire to get to grips with George, Cook the Australian, as something as a breach of faith. Beckett challenged Cook for £IOOO aside, and Cook accepted. Beckett has since been silent, though Cook offere- 1 t () dive £250 from his share of the purse. “Sporting Life” says: “People can scarcely he blamed for thinking Beckett lias no stomach to fight Cook.” Cook declares that lie will now probable approach Carpentier for a match, after the Frenchman returns from the United States early in the New Year.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1921, Page 3
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