BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 310, 27 June 1912, Page 8

BOXING

WILD SCENES OF DISORDER.. DIEPPE FESTIVAL STOPPED. By Cable—Prcsa Asatciation—Copyright. Paris, June 25. At the fight at Dieppe there were four thousand' spectators, including many women, who were wild with excitement. Dechamps, the manager, seized Carpentier round the waist after he had refused to allow him to continue the fight owing to what lie considered a foul blow. The boxer was enraged and fought to free himself. When Carpentier was forced out of tbe ring a burly figure seized Dechamps and threw him over the ropes among the spectators. Later on Evernden refused to stop fighting, whereupon Mnitron, the powerfully-built referee, lifind him and twice flung him on the boards, causing a sensation. The officials and the boxer's friends poured into the ring, and about thirty free fights commenced. There was pandemonium in the building, and the gendarmes had to be reinforced. The festival broke up in confusi»n.

THE TARANAKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. To-night will see the opening of a two-nights' "season" of virile boxing, under the auspices of the New Plymouth Boxing Association. The entries, numbering as they do well over fifty, provide a formidable programme, and it will take the management all its time to get the various rounds completed before midnight. This, of course, guarantees bright and crisp boxing, because the administration will not stand for any alownew or uncertainty. Nobody knows exactly, to-day, what Marquis of Queensbury rules are, but the boxing to-night will be conducted under the rules of the New Zealand Boxing Association, which is tantamount to saying that it will 'be clea» and -healthy. In addition to the open Taranaki championships, the Territorial championships will be decided, and there' will be a number of matches for novices and others* A special invitation is issued to ladies to attend, and they will be admitted free. The sport, which it peculiarly a British one, does not always meet with the reception It deserves, owing to a mistaken impression that boxing has some association with prizefighting. As a matter of fact, the two i have nothing in common, and the experience of such centres as Christchurch and Wellington, where ladies are regular attendants at the competitions, is an indication of the cleanness of a sport which ought to appeal to every boy and every youth in the Dominion who has the interests of chivalry at heart. The first bout to-night will start at eight o'clock.