BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1922, Page 3

BOXING.

> DEMPSEY’S DOINGS. LOOKING FOR MORE SCALPS. New Y’ork, March 1. If no fight is arranged for him In Arnerica. Dempsey says ho will trip over to Europe in the middle of this month. Carpentier was mentioned to him, whereupon he said: “If I ever do meet Georges again, I will make the promise that he won’t lact four rounds." Jack Dempsey burst into New Y’ork froun the Pacific Coast on February 15, snorting battle smoke. “I came here for the idea of getting a fight with somebody—and the quicker the better,” declared the heavyweight champion of the world. “I have been idle since last July, and I don’t like this idle stuff. I wisb that somebody would come along and make some sort of an offer for me to fight somebody which would bo acceptable. Then I could go into training, get busy, and climb back into the old ring harness again. “I am perfectly willing to take on the winner of the Greb-Glbbons match—if any matchmaker wants to put on the affair. Likewise I am willing to fight Harpy Wills, the giant negro. Beating up a negro never has sized up as a tougher job for me than beating up a white man. 1 used to fight—and beat—negro boys in the earlier days, and 1 surely think I am able to do it now. “But right now I don’t find promoters knocking «nie down in an effort to get me to sign contracts to fight Wills. There onay be a demand for it—but there isn’t any wild demand for such a fight. If it should develop, then I will be found ready and willing to meet a negro. Otherwise I will have to pick on one of the white boys. “But. whatever arrangements the promoters want to make about my services they will have to do It in a hurry. I have always been keen about, seeing Europe, and if there is no fight arranged for me here by the middle of April, it is quite likely that I will jump over and visit London, Paris, and a few of the other places. As far as I can figure out. now. the whole tiling will be little more than a sight-seeing tour, but, of course, if anybody over there is anxious to tackle me, then 1 might linger long enough to give him a chance. “I’ve heard something about London promoters wanting to match me with Carpentier for a fight over there. That’s fair enough. All the boys need to do is to lay a fair amount of money on the line, and I will take on the Frenchman as often as they arc willing to kick in with the money. If’ I ever do meet Carpentier again, I will make the promise that he won’t last four rounds. “I have been offered a chance to go to Australia on a vaudeville tour, which would embrace exhibition matches throughout that country. Likewise, they might want to send me up against the toughest of Australian heavyweights while I am there. I’d like to accept that offer, but at this time it can’t b« dmia. It la all because X can’t get toe

far away from America while the chance exists for me to fight somebody along about July 4. ”A trip to Europe 'would enable me to gee back home in a week or so, whereas if 1 were in Australia, and called back, it would take me nearly a month to get back. So 1 am passing up the Australian proposi- ; : tion now, hut I am keeping it in mind, maybe in the Fall, if there Is no prespiact of any meeting any of the American or Duro-., pean fighters for several months, I may ac* cept the Australian proposition.