PANDEMONIUM AT DIEPPE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 8

PANDEMONIUM AT DIEPPE

SPECTATORS RUSH THE RING

NUMBER OF FREE FIGHTS,

8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. (Received June 26, 11 a.m.) PARIS, June 25. At the fight at TJieppe there were four thousand spectators, including many women, who were wild with excitement.

De Camps, the manager, seized Carpentier round the waist. Tbe boxer was enraged and fought to free himself. When Carpentier was forced out pf the ring a biirlv figure seized De Camps and threw him over the ropes among the spectators.

Later on Evernden refused to stop fiahting. whereupon Maitron, a power-fully-built referee, lifted him and twice flung him to the boards, causing a sensation.

The officials and the boxer's friends noured into the ring and about thirty fj-00, fights commenced. There was a pandemonium in the buildins:, and the gendarmes had to be reinforced. The festival broke up in confusion.