MAD BOXING FINANCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16035, 28 January 1920, Page 5

MAD BOXING FINANCE.

“TIMES” ON FIGHT OFFERS.

LONDON, Jan. 20

The Times, in a leading article scathingly criticises “the mad boxng finance” and the unedifying international struggle to secure the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. It urges the immediate establishment of an association controlling professional boxing on similar lines to football.

MEXICAN PROJECT OPPOSED.

VANCOUVER, Jan. 20

The chances of holding the Car-pentier-Dempsey fight in America dwindled when Kearns (Dempsey’s manager) announced his opposition to Coffroth’s Mexican project, and stated that after careful enquiry he believed that the fight would go to London or Paris, which would probably suit Carpentier better fn any event.

Governor Stephens, of California, has announced that he would strongly oppose the fight being held in California, and would ask the Federal officials not to grant passports to the spectators attempting to cross the Mexican border.