LADIES AT PRIZE FIGHTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18438, 23 March 1922, Page 7

LADIES AT PRIZE FIGHTS.

The romance career of the young Frenchman, Georges Carpentier, has been followed by hero-worshippers .of both sexes in every country of >the world. His sensational exploits as an aviator in the Great War, his successful appearance in the role of film-actor, his successive victories over the best fighters that Europe could produce, his alleged hypnotic power over heavier and stronger opponents—all these factors contributed to the world-wide interest evoked by Carpentier’s meeting with Jaok Dempsey at Jersey City, on July 2nd last. When one recalls the eager anticipation with which the whole world waited for the result of the fight, it is not surprising that a great part of this enthusiasm should be revived by the extraordinarily successful moving picture version of the historic contest. “I had never seen a boxing match, and I never wa'nted to see one, but I have seen the wonderful pictures of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. It was simply too thrilling for words. Georges Carpentier is a Greek God. All women will see in him the personification of the manly virtues of courage, endurance, and chivalry. I am going to Europe to see his next fight.” So said Geraldine Farrar. The contest between the two modern gladiators was waged with a degree of fairness which won the wholehearted appreciation of the huge audience, both men being accorded ovations as they left the ring. Many thousands of ladies attended the great contest. There is nothing whatever repulsive to the most delicate susceptibilities in this historic trial of the manly qualities of courage and fair play, and this fact has no doubt been responsible for the large percentage of ladies included in the audiences wherever the pictures of the fight have been shown. Elinor Gynn, who was one of a large party of women journalists at the fight, said “Every man with an ounce of red blood in her veins would want to see Carpentier.”