CARPENTIER'S DEFEAT.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT. DISSATISFIED WITH VERDICT Australian and N.Z. Cable Aasoc'ation. (Heed. 5.5 pan.) LONDON, Sept. 25. Carpentier presents a pitiable appearance after his defeat at the hands of Battling Siki. His nose is shapeless, his two. eyes are violet, and he has lumps on his- lips, which are enormous and shapeless. The doctor states that two bones are fractured in the right hand, and one is fractured in the left. •Carpentier has recovered sufficiently to announce that he is not satisfied with the verdict, and wants a return match. He declares that the referee's decision was correct. Siki placed his foot behind his ankle and then knocked him out as he fell. No doubt he took Siki too lightly, but he is confident that he could* regain the title. Carpentier's defeat is agitating the whole of France. Battling Siki, interviewed, declared : " I never showed my best powers: I am going to meet Bempsey either in France or America. Carpentier, who always proclaimed his gentlemanliness and, sportsmanship, showed neither." j The Peti'fc Parisien refuses to accept Carpentier's defeat as final, and demands a new fight. Most of the other papers refuse to seek excuses, declaring that Carpentier was irresistibly beaten. Paradoxically, Carpentier received 200,000 francs and Siki 60.000 for the fight. Siki has decided to challenge Dempsey. SENSATION IN AMERICA. LARGE OFFERS TO SIKI. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. fEocd. 7.50 p.m.) NEW YOKE!, Sept. 26. Siki'a victory has caused a sensation in boxing circles here, and promoters are vieing with each other in cabling offers to the Senegalese to come to the United States. One promoter cabled an offer of 20.000 dollars, another 100,000, and 3 third 150,000. All wish to match Siki with a light-hmvy-weight, especially among American coloured boxers. Dempsey has announced that, in view of Carpentier's defeat, his European trip has been cancelled. The opinion is held here that Siki's logical opponent would be Harry Wills.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 9
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