CARPENTIER'S PLANS.
MATCH WITH DEMPSEY.
NOT BEFORE NOVEMBER.
* PARIS; Deo. 31. M.'Descamps, Georges Carpentier'a maha. ger, announces that Carpentier will not be ready to fight Jack Dempsey for the world's championship before November. Money is now not the first consideration Vith Carpentier. His only goal- will be' to be physically perfect in November. { . Carpentier will fulfil profitable music hall engagements in France and Britain until March, and will then sail for America, where he is tp receive 50,000 dollars for 30 days' cinema'" work in the California studios. Ho will return to France' immediately to prepare for the' championship. He prefers to figjit in France or England, where the climate is congenial; instead of America.
Promoters are still bidding strongly, and a group of French arid American capitalists threaten to outbid all other: rivals.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1714, 3 January 1920, Page 5
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