BOXING.
LIGHTWEIGHT CONTEST. I SYDNEY EX-CHAMPION BEATEN. I A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Oct 16. I At Boston yesterday Benny Valgar, the ! American lightweight, knocked out Jimmy Hill, the Sydney -champion, in the sixth : round of a twelve-round bout. A MATCH DECLINED. ! CAJRPENTIER AND DEMPSEY. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Times says that it is understood that Georges Carpentier refused an offer of £16.000 to meet Jack Dempsey hero next summer in a six-round nodecision bout.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 14
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85BOXING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 14
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