BOXING.
lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION COOK V. BECKETT. A POOR EXHIBITION. LONDON, April 10. Cook after the fight said:—“l was beaten by a better man.” Beckett said:— “Cook is a good clean fighter, but he was guilty of holding. 1 was slow owing to the results of influenza. J have a great ambition to meet Carpentier.” The “Daily Chronicle” says:—“lt was a terribly poor exhibition. A good man would have beaten either of the contestants. Neither had any initiative. What one did depended on what the other did. The contest would not do credit to a suburban show.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1922, Page 3
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99BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1922, Page 3
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