Boxing.

Southland Times, Issue 18834, 29 May 1920, Page 9

Boxing.

entries for the Southland Boxing Association's annua! champion-hip tourney clore !ii m- !' next (June s>. Sydney Stadium rUlioritics f.re trying to r- (Champion European •••ar.trjri' -nd Ilieym? (English champion nen; m> to visit N.S.W. '»*'•!3 Wellington B.A. lost week held a very successful exhibition of boxing, skipping, etc., in the Town Hall, the proceeds he ng in aid of tire N.Z. O.ymnio Games Team Fund. The Christchurch Sports Club are promoting a'match for Friday evening next between E. Vnlairs and Havilah Lren. (brother to the champion). lit addition se.eral six round bouts for amateurs will be staged. . Carpentier’s marriage, according to the London D.iiiy Lx press's Fans roirespomlt nt, was celebr led in run.- bine mulched only by the sumo o- the h;v.e, m.die. U.oryits Tnurc-ntia Li. Sser. 'The ceremony was performed at the quaint old mairie or town nad of tils Elysee quarter, the champion seemed concerned for the welfare of his silk hat, which was evidently new. He nthbed it with his h.iini, at it a im.ringly, ami parted company with it with obvious reluctance while he signed Ins name. He then look possession of it again, and caused amusement by aeposimig it in the centre of (he Mayor's table. When the young couple cmeiged from lbs nia.rie they were a-sso.kd wit si a battery oi cameras. Finally the happy couple bad almost to ught their -way out of the barrier of cameras in the motor cars.

Gunboat Smith ran across Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager. “V. el., Gunner,” asked Kearns as he shook hatm.-, "have jou seen Dempsey?” “Ye.-,” said the Gunner smilingly, “1 have. Rut i f.on i want anything to do with liim !“ ‘ \Vny ; ' r.sko... Emm., a bit nettloci. “Recausc,’’ the Gunner explained, “that guy's po.aon. Lc hit me in Buffalo to n.u-.i m„t he iti-ose me laces in my shoes. If tbe shoes haon’t fined me so ligut. na v.oiiiu .u\e «tc*. ...e piump out of them, liamppys nit tight to meet socially—but not in the ring.” Recent .-mun'.ci.n uice „.ate that Jack John.-on, a.re-r a lengthy c.\,.e m .America, is oaek in the united State . in March he met a low-grade heavy-weight, in Southern Caiiiornia, m a lut.-.n rounds go. but Jonnson imi-h.u his opponent in lour, due pa,c.,.- i . , a., ~.e return nt hi.- “oi.! .-ru ~ 0.,t .lyni cii ought to know by now that it can’t come bacK. Soon ne win be cm eno.. 0 u tor a match wtln Joe Re.mctt or ilombaruitr Wells. Writing on March 30, in the New York Times, James J. Corbeti, one of the greatest fighters of Ids nay m pos.Lve that the contemplated fignt bet we.,i Jack Dempsey and Georges Va.ptiUnr wdl not be a onesided atiaii. in Licit, he hebeves that the French champion possmscs the nere.-sary quanncat.oii; io contest m the nng for tho heavyweight cliampn'/nsh.p ui me world. This was the opinion expressed - by the foitner hea\yw-eignt champ,on alter spar-r.r-.u ior a i.w i.i.nute.- w-iii Oat pander at the home of Jars Gurley at Gtea: Neck. L. 1., on March 2?, where tnc Iren a champ.on rp.nt mu uay w.tb Mine, Carpenliti. it wm tnc nr.d umc mat Vorbcii had ever seen tnc pugilistic sensation o; Europe. “I want ,t ciisl.n.tiy unde;stood that 1 am not attempting m pick tit? winner of the Carpcntie;• Dump, cy light. ' smo Corbett when asked legarci.ng 1;..-: iui|irc.v,ioi,s of the Frenchman, “but Caipcni/er .-bowed such wondenul form during the brief period I was spairing w.th him llmt ! am con i .need he will prove a worthy opponent of Dempsey, anu we all know how great a fighter Dtmp.-ty is. However, J < v nr wan; to c.cate an imp,-u.«.,0n that 1 i.o j..a b that Dempsey i.- clever and tti.it 1 am

'lacking a winner lor I'-.? tbihl. r in what i 1 want emphasized is the fact that I bo- : lievc report.- that the battle ■.■.•ill he uii.n----i tr-rc.-t. ii... iiMUM' t-ai-pt-nl.rr is :.ot heavy | enough a.c i.ot wed iti.t Je !. i.ie oncf I sparring 1 dm with the tre nchman drmon- ] strated to my sidi -fact.on 1 ii.it lie will not ; be a ready taigot ior any man's blows, i Carper.!; r know.- how to ban.he himself, j and in less than sixty socon 1.- of our little impn.inptu exhibition he snov. c l me that he has the ail of side-stepping and ducking down to a science.'’ JALIv f)i,.•! t'Si-A . WHAT AMERICAN SOLDIERS THINK OF THE Ci’AMITOA. I I The campaign again.-t Dempsey in America grows ;';>! !■, One St at -• has .dready I close:i its doors to the hcavy-wrigh! chatnI pion, and f.iik.iad tnai lie w ;..d n. i-l-I lowed to box .thin it - boundaries, wlii.-t j popular f( .-..n,d is inei oa; am; against the I ■•oni. jUor oi •ic'-s Willard. | Tnc- Lie. f oi:t.,r:-l i.- in a Srrvii r journ: 1 j of wine flu uixi.on. winch, in a leaning j.r----j title, u. .....Oil- ii .11 I.nr-; • if t m r;: is no j Ltiuoj i . <■; ii jjiti'fvrm.cuj or iuJura ni ;il an.-, I Jack ]>i-inj)sey will chmh into the Mjtt.ire i 'ring next t\nr.n-ci, ear vying toe in c of i .inn ric. . : i;. , ii: I;. • mo, t of; . . ;,!■>. : 111 f.h.i. j ; c j , xt .11 Inc i •'■O. 1.. ’• i .1. . - - i; hj "Ami-rt as ;.;.aic.l li;r)ttor! Pause over the phrase, ••America’s greatest fighter—hereof a few tvte ; n I a. ...... nn.,, into oi a n-w : - utes’ b.itle with de.-s Wilier , he... (■: t . j,.i (>. i ... si -n.. me mi iisa.; ..erai.ni, hj id Ad ine nin-.ing puluivs at si ■. erai i.ma an i i.oilar- a wi.i:, t.;m ot ivm pc.if tun ml i cnmicnl 1>- plan t a.yea.;- in l!.e i int.d Stales v..li.t t.f pt.al .l world's cham; i.m- ---; eliip u-s h.-;ng loujnl .-ncral thou.-and j miles aw ay, I "Amen, .be fire:. Mad fighter he, who m ’. cr . knew lln uni o. .. .s;;- m0m..., i a i weigh! Oi a iidi p:-.c on hj.- nock, the weary i length oi a mu.a.y Ki.cmctrc, me winne oi ; an enemy shed. j "Is he as great a light* r as Scolly, the ! settid Ad-y fin-oui bos who, put tU 110.il ' a pat.i m tue wctiu; hijiui oi cnalaao- ' imerry, Killed tinny char.,.;;.;’ otvnian.- i.e- ---! tore lie died on his I ha.i; not Is lie m I jrreul a hero as the um.c-i .»ei/Ju, near sighl- ' cu, flat-looted stenographer, w,,0 m-ii auout all of his delects’, got ml > the army and, v.nh a enlist in his shoulder, brought in tinny prisoners at Soissonsls he as great a lighter as the .-.in-ha ~ we-tKasl, num.dosl oi me men who pul on nine arab or u.ue or forest green whin their country talien "America s gA.aU.--i li.diui . AO, not by : several mil.ions. Ann tin. picture oi ijctnptny lienianding 400,00000 l ior an hour’s appearaii.c ni in-- nu L ., i.ie a... wit its i.-.nijii oi the t.vo years a'ter the lighting is over over mere, is too mu: .i. ; i... jm N.i i ilrrauoa of Dimpsay near.is.- a l.teK <d niia.iuralidii lor every one oi l.n n.c i.i.-i.s.u man in the country, "The suggestion mat he go to France is nomtindig imt an nisi.il to more o.d budous of oua, vino, not so many Kilometre.- from i ;,ri:-, he sow on io.v, uu-ouga ...,w mm r...ii .nr. .-U1.11.U, iit.ir to ligiu- nor speak —again. ‘ lOuinpsey is a ease for all returned ser- , vice n.cri in inis country —..specially, j»erhaps, tor the greatest oiyaniseu iraeuou of them, the American L.gion. Resolutions protesting against Ins further pubhc a]>i>earance as a lighting man, resolut.ons asking him to refill.,uish ins title in favour of some--1 one else —someone, perchance, who knows ! ine taste of s.uia and Demis —might help I the situation, 'the hide ol the rhinoceros is ‘ tmick, hut it has been penetrated. Ai.u tue | action would have a wholesome rmiueuce

oh some professional sports, who are still suffering under the blight of a rather poor war record.”