BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 309, 26 June 1912, Page 8

BOXING

CAIiPENTIER DEFEATED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyrigl it. Paris, June 24 At Dieppe, Klauss defeated Carpenter in eighteen rounds. Carpentier's manager, thinking that Klauss had struck a foul blow, threw up the sponge and le- | fused to proceed, though Carpentier i ei sired to do so. ASSAULTING A REFEREE. ■ I Paris, June 24J In the boxing match at Dieppe ■•' Between Bernard and Evanden, the latto was disqualified in the second round. We was apparently on the point of beilg knocked out when he struck the referle. His second also jumped into the ring and assaulted the referee, whereupon tie police intervened. 3 1 TARANAKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. There are net wanting cynics who are disposed to look down their noses when the "noble art of self-defence" is mentioned, and to at once confound the subject with the parlous brutalities of prizefighting. But there is as much difference between boxing and prize-fighting as there is between half-a-pound of choco* lates and a silk hat. Boxing pure and siimple is, in its amateur aspect, an athletic recreation, which has been inevitably associated with the history of our public schools, and everybody knows that it is from the playing grounds and gymnasia of those schools that our best ment of the Empire have been recruited. To-morrow night and on Friday night the public of New Plymouth will be offered an opportunity of seeing some enthusiastic boxing, as the Taranaki open championships are to be decided in the Theatre Royal on those dates. The programme will also include boxing by the Territorials and novice and special classes. The entries already are between forty and fifty, and this should provide two good nights' entertainment. The contests will be contested under the rules of the New Zealand Association, and it is admitted that there is no stricter or cleaner sporting organisation m the country that this particular body.