BOXING

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1920, Page 3

BOXING

DEMPSEY- TP AIMING HARD. DENTON HARBOUR, August 29. Dempsey is carrying out a rigorous training campaign. Ho is boxing daily with three negro lighters, _ with whom he trained lor tire 'Willard match, -and is-doing considerable road work each morning. BROKEN'CONTRACTS. NEW YORK, August 29. Jack Curley, ..the promoter of the Levinsky-Carpentier bout, expressed surprise at Kearns’s annoncement that Carpcntier would , cancel the Lsvinsky bout in order to meet Dempsey. Curley pointed out that he had received a letter from Deschamps stating that Cochran consented *to the CarpentierjDempsey 'bout in America, but Deschamps had referred Cochran to Curley. The letter reaffirmed Deschamps’s decision to have Carpentier fulfil the contract to fight Levinsky. CLABBY SUSPENDED. (jfer Press Association.) WANGANUI, August 31. The suspension of Jimmy Clabby for six months by the Wanganui Boxing Association, for his failure to carryout his agreement to contest a match with Fritz" Holland at Wanganui, has been endorsed by the New Zealand Boxing Council. The suspension is for six months, dating from July 20th. GENERAL NOTES. (By “Looker-on.”) Further details of the professional lightweight contest at Thames between Alf Bromwich (9.8) and Gns Venn 9.9 are to hand. The bout resulted in a surprise, as the champion, Venn, was a strong favourite and in the first few rounds had the best of the fighting. But Bromwich continued on determinedly throughout the fifteen rounds and had decidedly the best of the last few rounds, punishing his opponent severely about the left ear. He continued aggressive until the close of the fifteenth round he was declared the winner. The championship was not involved. At Waipawa on Saturday night Geo. Mod rich (Auckland) and Wally Evans (Hamilton) met in a 15-round professional bout for a purse of £SO. The fight ended with dramatic suddenness. Medvich connected on the solar plexrs within a minute after starting, and followed with a hard right. Evans took the count.