BOXING

Evening Star, Issue 17700, 29 June 1921, Page 9

BOXING

COOK AND BECKETT MATCHED. A London cable states that Cook (a New Zealander) is matched to fight Joe Beckett on July 22 for" £I,OOO aside. THE CARPENTfER-DEMPSEY BOUT. “FIGHT UNTIL ONE OR, OTHER DROPS.” Georges Carpentier, the famous French boxer, and Jack Dempsey (America), heavy-weight champion of the world, meet at New Jersey on Saturday next for a purse of £100"000, of which Dempsey is to receive three-fifths and tho Frenchman two-fifths. About tho fight and his opponent Carpentier, on leaving Paris for America, said: , - “ Dempsev, whom I have met and talked with' is a fighter in appearance, in temperament, and by choice. Twelve rounds, it is arvo/nged, tdiull bo the limit of the fight, but the winner will not be the maker of points. Ho will he the man who has won bv a knork-ont. I have no obsessions. Tho feeling is deep down in me that I shall do battle with a man stronger than any I have yet enconnteicd. Dempsey and I will fight until one or other of us drops. Will wo not bn fighting for our country? “Immediately upon ray arrival in New York I shall got to my training .quarters at Manhasset, Long Island. M. Deschamps (Carpenticr’s manager) has taken over a country house for three months. It ia a mile from the sea, and my quarters are all that could be desired. My principal sparring partner will be Paul Journee, one of the biggest, ns well as one of the strongest, boxers in Franco. TTis mission will bo so to fashion his boxing as to (it mo not for boxing primarily, but fighting of a fierce kind. , “ T recognise the importance of food, especially on hot days, and in my paity will be Marcot, ' Battling Marcot,’ in tho boxing world, but a chef who for some time has been in charge of Deschamps’ Paris kitchen. SPARRING PARTNERS. “Joe Jeannette, who at Luna Park in 1914 won against me on points at the end of fifteen rounds—a born fighter, intelligent, thoroughly capable, and even now something of a wonder—has offered his services as a sparring at Manbasset. and I am going to take him. Jeannette was in mv corner when last I was at New Jersey awl fought Battling Levin-

sky. So. besides Jouvnee, I shall have this wonderful colored man and mv countryman. Marcel Thomas, who is at presentin' the States. ■ It is possible that I shall have other sparring partners: this will depend upon circumstances ns I find them upon my arrival. “1 have boon in training more_ or less even since I set nut to earn mv living ns a professional boxer, and I believe that at the end of four to five weeks’ hard work —the hardest preparation I have ever undertaken—T shall take the ring in the'best possible shape. Tf I lose it will not be , lor want of condition. ! “I look forward to this fight. with Dempsev with an enthusiasm it is quite impossible for me to closer:he. I would bo prepared to make almost anv sacrifice rather than miss the opportunity of trying for the world’s championship. I made one fortune before the war. I lost it. J have made another, and this I would readily forfeit/ rather than forgo a meeting with Dempsey ” ,