CARPENTIER AND DEMPSEY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2221, 30 December 1920, Page 4

CARPENTIER AND DEMPSEY.

WILL BATTLE IN HAVANA RING. Now York, Oct. 28. Tex Rickard,-one of the promoter* of the Carpentier-Dempsey championship fight, stated to-day that the contest will he held in Havana during the racing season early in the new year. It is understood the tight will lie to a finish* Washington’s Birthday (February 22nd) will probably be the date selected. New York, Oct. 29. The big light goes to Havana. With Jack Dempsey present and voting, Tex Rickard made the announcement of all concerned in the tight, and there was not a single dissenting voice this time. Cuban capital interests raised their bid so high that Rickard, Charles B. Cochran, the Englishman, and William A. .Brady, the theatre and movie magnate, who have pooled their financial interests to swing the deal, could not turn it down. Rickard said a representative of the Cuban promoters would arrive here next week. After he has bccii “seen” by the big three, there will be an announcement of details of the match.

Dempsey is to get £OOO,OOO and Carpentier £40.000, and each lighter receives 25 per cent, of the moving picture'receipts. The promoters get the rest of the money for .movie rights. Those present in Brady’s office were Dempsey and Carpentier showing no animus whatever. Jack Kearns and Francois Descamps, their respective managers; Rickard, Cochran and Brady, and lawyers representing each of the three parties to the agreement. The Dempsey contingent was satisfied with the arrangement reached as to the posting of the £IO,OOO forfeit which each fighter is required to put up. fhis little detail threw the whole machine out of gear for a day, and came hear doing the big three out of the light. They have now agreed on the bank in which the money is to bo deposited, although Kearns had been holding out for the appointment of some individual stakeholder. An arbiter is to be named by till concerned whose decisions arc to be final in such matters as arise from time to time between the signing of articles and the exchanging of right

SWJIIgS. Cochran revealed for the first linit the nature,of his contra<4 with Carpentier. Carpentier, after defeating Joe Beckett in London, gave Cochran an option on his services for any world’s championship match he might engage in until December 31st, 1920. Cochran was to give Carpentier £40,000 sterling’ for the fight. In return for waiving thE option which lie could not possibly have exercised, Cochran is declared “in” on the promotion for a onethird share of the investment and risk, and an equal share of the white meat after the light is delivered at Havana and paid for by the Cuban financiers.