CARPENTIER’S DEFEAT.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1924, Page 4

CARPENTIER’S DEFEAT.

• ~ AN A-M A/.INC! FIGHT. NKW VOHK, July 20. Scenes of the wildest disorder marked a teeliuieal knock-out of Georges Carpontier by Cleiie Tuuney, i lie li^ht-i heavy-weight < listmjiion uf Ameriea, in the loth and final round here last ni”ht. After retoiviu" a severe hammering: in all hut lour rounds, ('uipeiilier lell. just hefore tlie hell in the 1 Ith round, from'a riylit diand drive to the body. A> the Ft'em liman c.dlap-ed ho shouted out that he had been lotiletl, .and lay writ hint; on the "round until d mooed to his turner by his .seconds. .U. Descamps, the l''reiichinair s manager, (lashed into the ruip; and pulled the referee, .Ur Grideti. over to Carpontier in an endeavour to prove he had been si ruck low. The lino was in wild turmoil durin;' the interval. Some of the Frenchman's seconds tried to prepare him for the loth round, while others tried desperately

to convince tin* rc'leree that a lotil had hot'ii coiinnii tad. Will'll tin' hidl nr'-}' M. I:ii: i"; i' was still in the riiio. ilo hauled Carpcntier tu tin 1 tonin' and pushed litin in tin- diipotiiai nf Tiiiiiioy. who was siaiidinii. somewhat nonplussed, in the centro ot 11 1<* I‘injx. norm-Ki) it. ('aipoiitior. thudded up and api>:ir cut |\- in pain, mint* stat'ttoriui; nil. Wlioii ho saw that Ilia referee would mil allow his i lain! of a In'll lie attemptiil to ciiiitiniii' tho liitht. Iho rofiToi', laiwovor, wavod Tiinnoy hark tu his ooi'lior, and the li.tthl wtis n'tw. It was an unfortunate endin'; to a,.,Val a display Id' will powor and in tho lino. Tuiilley took tho first sovo.i I'o.inds ousilv. (arpeni ior tryiiio dr-peraioly tll land his riydit. Tho K,onohnian m iho llli round lii'cd a volley nl tiohls wiih litll-' or no rosiiit. In the !dh I'liiind Tu miey apponrod to ho son in up and C'arpoiitior was aide to hold his own. . Tho orisis oaino in tho UHh nnnd. Il was only ( arp-.'iitier's iail.niiitaMp will power and omiiaoo that kept him on his loot. Ho took the lonnt thrifo lor 11 iin' oijj.iit, and six soonmls, hut refused to ipiit. Alter the third knook down ho was SO helpless that tho referee stopped hot ween tie Miters and ordered them to their rumors. Carpeiitier, however impend his "ill ahsolutely relttsi d ino tlie referee a Tniiney amid the criiWtl. i*i tlie ivifivo, to obey him. I'ushside, lie dashed into ronsiliy eheers ol the

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Hotel in an omnilnis, 1 saw tin* woman and Oit- young man enacting the same scene. I alighted. hut On* woman In,aided another omnilnis and got away.”