BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 8

BOXING.

TO-DAY'S GREAT FIGHT. CARPENTIER AND BECKETT.. AMERICAN OHNION OF CARPENTIER. The following cablegram was published faSydney last weok: — "New York, November AS.—.lack Dempsey the world's champion boxer, bus announce. In Salt Lake City that bo has signed ;■ contract for 173,000t101. (say £35,0130) to nice the winner of the Carpentier-Beeket*. mulch subject, of course, to the victor agreeing ti come to America, in which case the eucountci will take place at Now Orleans." This appeared in the Sydney Sun on Monday : » "London, November 20. —Replying to a lettei from the manager of Jack Dempsey (heavyweight champion), Mr. Cochrane, the weilknown promoter, announces that Carpentici and Becketr. are anxious to meet Dempsey and that ho anticipates no difficulty in arranging a match with him and the winner el Hie fight between Oarpeniier and Beckett, am is prepared to deposit a purse of £35*001) on a 611-40 basis/ but refuses to incrcnsi this, or give cither contestant a guaianteei sum" If Dempsey had signed a contract, providing that 175,000d01. be paid for a match betweeu him aud the winner of the Beckett Carpcntier battle, to be staged in America wha l *. necessity was there for his manager tr communicate with the London promoter, Mr Cochrane? Probably the first informatiur was promulgated# with a view to causing the English bidder to raise his offer! SOMEBODY HAS BIDDEN OUT OF LINE. * Tills 17-"i,00(ldol. purse has evidently boor dangling before the mind of tho Americar sporting world Quito a long time. My latest New York flies contain tho following, writtei by the New York scribe, Walter St. Denis ,f lf Jack Kearns, the manager of .Tad l Dempsey, tho heavyweight, champion, Tcaily ha? an offer of a purse of 175.000d01. to figh Georges Carpont.ier, the French champion, somebody has bid out of line. If he has it he can't be blamed for accepting it, ever .'hough a condition might call for the fight t( he held in the desert, "However, there aro those who doubt It, assorting that the statement issued by Kearn* is merely a ruse to get somo advertising foi tho .Tack Dempsey troupe, which is now dolus the middle-west tour. Certainly, it is noi tho belief of anybody who has just corao acros; from the other side that anybody, even th< creates*, gambling promoter in all Europe would make such an offer. "One of those who just got here an t *.vh( expressed that opinion is Gene Tunne.v, tin Greenwich Village boy. who, as a membei of the Eleventh Marines, won the ligr-heavy-weight championship of the American F'nhviitionary Forces. Tunney is not. at all impressed with the appearance of the idol ol French boxing circles and believes that, i! doesn't require a Dempsey to beat. him. Tunney thinks he could do it himself, and ver? na'arly had the chance, but lost it when tin Inter-Allled tournament came along, because CaTpentier was ordered, heing a soldier, tc represent his country in the lists, but didti I because he got by with the excuse that he hat injured his hand. "I saw Cavpentier in France," said Tunney when he visited our office yesterday in company with his new manager, Sammy* Kelly, tin west side ring star of a generation ago, "and he didn't, impress me as being anything verhard to boat. I challenged him, and W? promised the bout with him. but it fell through I was told by M. Roth, a promoter of the wonderland premier, that, p niatch with Battling LeVinsky for Carpentier was about as good a? made, and lie asked me my opinion of it. aw I told him that I thought Levinsk.v would be;n the Frenchman. . CARPEXTTER IN POOR SIIAPE. "The French champion doesn't look good a' all He has no business in the ring with n real heavyweight of Dempsey's ?\/a, or witl any good, rugged. Arfterican. for that matter Ho only weighs about lfi7 or 170 pounds, hlf face is drawn, and hp has a neck as smal as this—indicating tho size by joining the em of his second finer and thumb tip Ho doesn'l look Hko a fighter, either, bu' he is st.il! the idol of the French fight fo'lnwcrs. Ever they, however, think ho should couHmp lib rinr efforts to men of his own she Thru don't think that he would stand much of :i fhaiKft against P'-rtet"! offer of 17fi.0MdoI sound ridiculous They do think ho can whip any man of hi' size, and for tha*. reason ho continues ii great favor. But they wouldn't pay to gr and see their man whipped, and that opinioi they would soon get a-fter saw the Ameri can fighter in action." RAISING THE BIDS. "If Demrisey will got. only half of what hj« is offered to fight this or that chamoion o: ♦his or that country he ought to be able t< hang up the old boxing gloves and take a sea in the realm of wealth with John D. Rockfeller and others before bo reaches his 30th year. Such a meagre sum as IOO.OOOdoI. ii never offered the Toledo Terror for his see vices, particularly if thoy are issued fron across the pond, and V. is no wonder that th< question is so often asked: 'W'hero are tin getting all the money to give nwa: for sport so soon after -he war, and whei they nre in such deep debt?' "Winn London came through with that offe; oF 120,00f1d01. for Dempsey to cross the ooeai and meet their champion, Bccke't. it looker - M ke the limit; but this latest one of 17r»,<J00do| Is sky high." The Carpenticr-Beckett affair will bo de dried in London to-day (December 4th'.)