BOXING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20075, 11 October 1920, Page 3

BOXING.

(NOTES BY " CESTUS.’’) According to a. cable message the iNew York State Boxing Commission has announced that the Carpeniier-" Battling ” , Levinsky , bout on October 111, and the Deran-soy-Brennan bout, which -was arlanged lor October 1, have been postponed. The Commission states that it considers that its decision is in tjui best interests of boxing in the State, as it does not believe tho bonis would offer the best means of a. trial test of the now boxing law at present. Mr Rickard, the promoter of the Dempsey match, and the International Sporting; Club, the promoters of the Carpcntier niatelq have advised the Commission that they will not permit the bouts fora time. Ihe hangavei Boxing Association recently promoted a contest between a. ,lTen and B. Tracey, two Australian light-weights, and provided a purse of £250, which in \probably £2OO more Uiaii either man could secure in Australia. Reports state Unit it was a most disappointing exhibition. , Ono writer says that the amateur bouts were “ a bright redeeming feature of the evening.” The amateur receives a trophy of the value of £3 or £J for nis services, and as,a rule the,contestants give ami take more punishment in their short bout than professionals indict on each other over fifteen rounds. Speaking generally, a bout between two good amateurs in the Dominion provides variety and thrills which are usually not. forthcoming in a professional contest. CARPENTIER AT HOME. “Georges Carpentior is hack in Paris after his tour-in America,-richer by many thousands of pounds” (writes B. Dennison in flic London “ Telegraph ”), ”Mhen' I called at Ins fiat this morning ho was playing aud singing little, lilting songs; Flip, a coal-black chow, was stretched at his feet, blinking and laughing and understanding—a picture in the bright, dazzling sim that lighted Up the salon delightful to sec. For if was so contrary to what a man in quest of an interview with a professional lighter would have expected; there was softness in it. And in a way that no other thing could have done, it provided the secret of why and how this young Frenchman, immaculately groomed, almost a dandy, gives to the ring a new meaning, a new atmosphere; why it is that he hastoaused a different perspective to be applied to boxing. He has ; the manner, the disposition of a man who, while yet a ‘ bruiser,’ might well pass as a courtier. Not to the fighting pit, but lo the drawing-room, you would say he belonged ; and yet this sort of Northern France, so suave, so ceremonious, we know to bo a terrible fighter, cruel in his determination, vicious, a fighter until he drops.” ‘‘ My trip to America,” Carpentior said, “ has been all very wonderful, [t has brought me a fortune; but. better, it has given to me an education which no university could have done. I have read greedily since a child; my hooks have been many and strangely different; but in. the weeks I have been away from France I have peeped into the pages of the greatest of.all books— I have lived in a .world bigger, mightier than I ever dreamed that I would know. ]. have visited and appeared before the people of sixty-three different American cities; thousands of miles have I travelled, and all in the space of a few weeks. And now lam back homo I havo_ the feeling of a man who has been whirled through endless space at breakneck speed and as if hy magic. My tour has been a round of wondei's; so wonderful has it been that I am about to go to my house in Dieppe and try and understand it all. I would appreciate it to the full.” II And then,” Carpentier went on, “ I shall return to America, so that i may fight Battling Levinsky, who is said by his countrymen to be the best of all the light heavy-wegiht boxers in,the. world. About the middle of October next we are ito meet. If .1 win then I. shall he happier, and more certain of myself in my efforts to get a, match with Jack Dempsey for the world’s championship. With very few exceptions American people believe—indeed, they did not hesitate .to tell me—that it is as certain as anything can bo that Dempsey will knock me out. They say of him that ho is the greatest hearv-weight the world has known since the Fitzsimmons era. 1 am free to admit that he is. That is why it is my ambition to meet him when and where lie will meet, me. Assuming that Air Cochran is' not suecessful in bringing Dempsey to England, it is likely that the tight will take Mace in July of next year just outside New York, in the open.. Between now aud then I do not think it will bo possible for me to fight any other man but Levinsky. for the reason that I have contracted to make two more big moving pictures.”