BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 9 November 1912, Page 7

BOXING.

The marriage of Bombardier Billy Wells created quite a stir in the boxing world, many prominent sportsmen attending the ceremony to wish the English champion and his 10-year-old bride good luck and happiness. The future plans of Wells are not definitely fixed. He contemplates a return visit to America, but as there is some likelihood of his being invited to meet Carpentier at Monte Carlo early in 1913, lie may decide to take on the Frenchman before again crossing the Atlantic. Notwithstanding that Georges Carpentier secured a good lead over Billy Pape in the first eleven rounds of their scheduled -twenty rounds fight, in Paris, he could not withstand the subsequent attacks of the American, and had he not given up at the end of the seventeenth round he would have been knocked out in the next term. After the eleventh round Papke attacked with extraordinary energy, and in the seventeenth session closed Carpentier's left eye with a terrific right drive. A similar punch floored the Frenchman, who would have been counted out had not the gong come to his rescue. When the gong was resounded Papke jumped out of his corner eagerly, but the Frenchman did not rise. His seconds shook their heads and admitted their man's defeat. ' By being five ounces overweight Papke forfeited £2OO.

Battling Nelson had the curious experience of being mistaken for an escaped lunatic while training at St. Joseph recently. Says the Detroit Free Prc-s: —''While Nelson was doing road work he went to the end of the Frederick Avenue car line and out by the asylum, wearing that old fedora, for which he paid one dollar while he was training here for his bout with Clarence English 10 years ago. His old black hat was tattered and torn, his hair was protruding and he resembled for all the world an ■ Indian bedecked with feathers. Bat, was running toward the city with a cane in his hand, wearing his heavy spiked shoes, and some farmers who were driving into town, suspecting that he was a lunatic galloped their horses until they passed Bat. Two of the boys jumped out of the vehicle and grabbed the Battler, and wanted to thro whim in the waggon and bring him back to the asylum. They went roughshod after Bat., never making any explanations as to why they wanted to throw him in the waggon and grabbing him by force and starting to throw him in !h'e waggon. Bat. demanded an exph. "Jon. but they could not see it. and when they refused to desist Bat. hit one on the jaw, knocking him senseless, and the other two started to finish Bat. up, and he had to repeat the dose, clipping one on the chin and landing a "left-half-scissors-hook" on the liver of the third one—then Bat. started home, thinking it was quite a joke."