CARPENTIER AND BECKETT.
I TO MEET ON JULY 4. A FORFEITED DEPOSIT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 24. Georges Carpentier has signed a contract to fight Joe Beckett ou duly 4, as "is hand is now improving. He goes shortly to Leigh-on-Sea to train. His ?gnt with Mike McTigue in America -U been cancelled. "Sporting Life" states that Carpentier w»l forfeit the £500 which he and Mckett deposited with that paper in the mat of non-appearance for any reason «Mtsoever. Beckett was prepared to •PPear on June 14. the second date fixed, J*". Carpentier was not so prepared.) -u*li t has cla,mod the money, which »■» be paid to him. If things had been I imV w wav ro,iml Carpeiitier would! "ndonhtedly have claimed the forfeit— % and X._. Cable.) |
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5
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