CARPENTIER-COOK MATCH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2379, 14 January 1922, Page 2

CARPENTIER-COOK MATCH.

AUSTRALIAN KNOCKED OUT IN FOURTH ROUND. London, Jan. 13. Carpentier knocked out Cook in the fourth round.

In the first .round Carpentier’s left lead failed to reach its objective, and Cook rushed in, and caught a nasty one in the ribs. There was much infighting towards the end of the round.

Cook scored well in the second round. Carpentier landed a left hook on Cook’s jaw, and easily evaded his counter. Cook boxed well, and goCSwmie two hard lefts. He also got the better of the infighting. Carpentier tried to find an opening for his right, but Cook cleverly prevented him. In the third round, Carpentier adopted a crouching attitiuk, and landed a light left on Cook fought hard at close quarters. Carpentier easily had the best of the out-lighting, and scored well towards the end of the round with lefts and rights to the body. It was easily his round. Cook landed a right on the jaw after the gong, which he had evidently not heard, and (lie referee cautioned him. In the fourth round, Carpentier lured Cook to rush in, and Carpentier landed a beautiful straight left to the chin. Then a terrific right on the jaw, followed by a left up-per-cut. Another right swing brought Cook to the boards. Cook was on one knee at the count of ten.

COOK HOPELESSLY OUT- . CLASSED.

The Australian Press Association representative states that the Albert Hall was crowded in every part when the contest began, those preseni including a larger percentage of women than ordinarily. It was seen that Cook had plenty of supporters, their cheers and cooeos being vociferous. As he entered the ring, they stuck a doll mascot in the corner.

The opening three rounds' promised a better tight than it turned out, but it soon became evident that Carpentier was only waiting an opportunity for landing his famous right.

Many of Cook’s barrackers were misled by his partial success in infighting, but there was no weight behind his slaps on the Frenchman’s neck in the clinches.

Undoubtedly Cook was flagrantly guilty in holding in the third round, the referee cautioned him severely thereanent.

Carpentier >pent two rounds in taking Cook's measure, and in seeking an opportunity for landing his right. He made -everal misses in attempting the -ame, being supported by rhe erroneous idea that Cook was going to ' give a better showing than really was the ease. Cook landed more hits in infighting than the Frenchman in the the first two rounds, but the latter’s did much more damage. Carpentier only began to warm up to earnest fighting in the third round. The damage he then quickly inflicted was responsible for the semi-dazed manner in which Cook was guilty of hitting the Frenchman after the gong had gone.

The fourth round was only half over when Cook fell into the simplest trap. He gave Carpentier the opening which he was so patiently looking for throughout.

Carpentier. with lightning rapidity, landed a right swing to the jaw, and as Cook went down, he repeated a similar -right swing with such -.peed and cleanness that maflv wrongly imagined he had hit when Cook was actually down, resulting in some shouts of “Foul.*’

Summing up the position. Cook was quite unequal to Car pent iers calibre. The contest intrinsically adds nothing to the Frenchman’s reputation. He had little to beat, and was easily superior in science, intelligence, and skill, against which Cook had only weight and a welltrained body to offer.

Interviewed by the Australian Press Association as lie left the ring, said: “It wasffhe second right when Cook said: “It was the second right when I was falling that finished me.” BEFORE THE BATTLE.

Cook arrived in London from his training quarters before lunch. He was enthusiastically cheered as he entered his hotel in the Strand. On the bonnet of his motor car lie had as a mascot a doll dressed as a bal-let-dancer, with a yellow tab attached, inscribed “Good -luck, Digger." Other mascots inside the car included the Australian flag and a model bulldog. A pair of ladies’ evening shoes were hung behind. After greeting his friends, and posing for the photographers, lie lunched from a pound of beef steak, three eggs, bread and butter and weak coffee. He then went to bed. Before going to the Albert Hall in the evening, he ate a similar meal. Cook informed an interviewer: “I ieel that I am going to have'the' fight of my life. When I face Carpentier, I shall feel as I do when I sit down to a big steak. I shall be happy. I have been interested in all this wild talk about Carpentier’s terrible right. It seems to me it has put t!\e wind up the critics. It has yet to do the same to me. Until Carpentier proves lie can floor me, I’ll think, as I have always done, that his punch is one of the most exaggerated things in the world.” CARPENTIER INTERVIEWED.

Carpentier celebrated his twentyeighth birthday by defeating Cook. Interviewed, he said: “Cook is a good, game man. I found it very difficult to hit him in the right spot, owing to his good cover. He was exceedingly clever in ducking some of my right punches.”