BECKETT WINS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3528, 15 July 1920, Page 7

BECKETT WINS.

._————o-»~-\'\'l~jl;.l.S ('.1‘()1“.>% B;\(.‘K. t”‘.:\H.‘L‘lC.\"l,‘l' ICR ‘S I4lu'SS();\'. '_,.,.,.-. li.U;\’l‘)L)_\', ;\l:l_y 11. Joe ].%cu]<cert, of b"out.llalxnptoll, is still the Bvitish llo:l\y\\'o.igM boxilng ("munpiun. ".B(uln|_::u'di<‘l'" \\'(:l!<. :12 ()]_\'mpi:x, .I.o_mlml. in the ])I‘CS(.“-Il(‘t‘ of :1 \‘:\.\‘t’ multihldo, made :1. de;~'pol'atP 0fi"o1-ti to yopuat HlO C‘zll'p(ml'iol‘ i{no<'k—uut in sawm-Il‘.-il‘l‘<_~‘ over EL nlinuf<', bLlt.Billy \No1l;< is um (+o<>ls;o.< (‘:n'p<‘-11t,im'. Ho cammr bond the Im\.\' of .»\pnllu. The o(,‘f'm't Inisual'l‘io<L and frcvnn the mmn(rnt' Er f’:lilcd .BeCl(cH".< \'i«<t'<‘n'_\,' \\'El.~: '(:’ort'uin. \\'l-I.\'r \\'.»\Ts THI-2 sl«;<:tlzl%:'r. I’.-»opls._~ h:lV(‘ bven \\‘omlel'ill_s: :-.n<] '_';'llé>.'.<sl)g': what \\".‘.>""lt that (‘.a’l'ponti<,-1' told \’\’<)H.~:.’- Tin) I-‘l'onchln:m cub]-;-J :1 'i'C.-w d:l_\,'s ago to '.\lfr ('7(>r'I21‘:111: “’l‘«-il Bflly to rcnmmbor \\'}l:'.t’ *l. fold hinn.” What‘ was the se<*l'(‘t"? Wvlls (Io11bt"l0;<;< I'elm\mbel'ed_. but he fold nobofly,

()h\'inll.~:!y wTlaf the F1'011(*e1_x.n1:1r1told VVOHS was wllzn', Cv(=l'_y}>(>dy I<n(r\v who

saw the m:lrVelloLls encountm‘ I)Ct.\\«'(>e.n Carpmltier and Bo(?ket’r. On flizxt 000:1-gs-i<m Beckett‘ sfnppod into the ~ri.ng__;‘ with the inlt‘_l)lion of spelxding the ovoning there. It w:ls,,qllil'e (2]("2VIF-—.‘lll(] his 'mvxl .<ubsoquenl‘ ut‘tex':lncos lofit no dQLlbt'upon the subject-that‘ he in~ ’ron<l(\<‘l to occupy 31- ]o:1:<t fhrev I'ouml.< in pl'('-limin:n'_v spurring‘. But within H‘:ro(.> s¢wnmls 01’ the opmfing C:lrpon—tivr drove his loft‘; fist hard info }3ock-

]ott’s face. H 0 did this three times ‘i h,efol'o swinfging a troniemlous 1-ighrto the point. of the jaw’, 11114] the fight‘ \\'3.9 U\'C‘]'. Billy \\'oll.~' (lid not ‘forget what Ca:'pentici- haul told him. The ring {was lmrdly cleared when he’ put :1 stiff lead with his left lizmd into BOOKIct.t’s face. But the blow was del'.vr.-r----led. wi.tho_ut the Gallic ,Veilom. [t Wll-5. ‘clearly v:~:perilnen‘ral. 9.1111 \VOll< "Gas loithcr in doubt as to its efiicacy or as [to his own :Ihilit_\,' to phi it" in properly. I MISSED HIS_TIDE. i His waVci'ing mind was betrayed ion the instant. The atfzu.-k was not follc--wed up. Wells, indeed. showed every evidence of :1 desiu‘ to follow it up, but he fought like a mini who was trying to 1'0n10ml)er smnetliing thzit he had never qllfie'.(-le;ii'l_\' undershmrl. ‘He had missed his tiilo. ’e Til-ki‘-ll at the floucl it might have led on to‘ fortune. but he is not the man to seize the pliysliologival moment, nur is Beckett, who figllis with fhe dotcrniinzitinn of :1 true British bull,dug. not the 1112111 to be Set down by a l1:1l‘r'-l1e:1rfE7l :Itit'zu.-k. All the rest of V-Veils’ joiu'ne_\' was bound in shallows :Ln(l iiiicwmiiitfos, null W110i! P.r~('ka,‘H', in the thirfi ?.'(ll1nd. went for’ him with both l1:1n(l.< hv mimic heavily! in gi‘io‘r'. l The gallery, who cannot get it’ out of their heads that he is Apollo, were (li.-amminiod; hut tlw better man won. _ i .:--.'':'.-‘-':-.—_+--.'.-------—''''"