Boxing.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 867, 16 February 1917, Page 23

Boxing.

Les Darcy, so files -to. Band by last week's American mail state, lias signed a contract to appear on the vaudeville stage in America. He is to receive £15,000 for fifteen weeks' work. Darcy, according to reports, was still waiting for a reply to his challenge ix> Carpentier, the French champion/ Thn latter, however, is concerned in a sterner fight, than the prize ring has "to offer—a fight for a lusher stake than mere dollars., ' . They, have State-run prize lights in Wisconsin, TJiS.A., and- "Wisconsin is making a good thing out of the same. Last year the State reaped' £6000 net out of the game. The public paid £100,000 to witness a total of 2000 bouts. The annual report expresses the opinion that the legislation and regulation of boxing in Wisconsin have raised; the game from the status of a disreputable barn bestiality-' to the elevation of a dignified, scientific sport. The re- ' port also avers that the persons who objected to the fight business in days gone by _ are now among its strongest sympathisers.