BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 10

BOXING.

(By “Wallop.”) Ths Way on the Continent. Fight news is a scarce •commodity just now. The most important item received this week is the defeat of George Carpentier, who holds the middleweight championship of Europe, by the clever American middle, Frame Ivlauss. Tire cables that have reached vs concerning Hu's fight have, been a trifle ambiguous, but it appears that the affair lias been 2>art of a carnival held at Dieppe. From the cables received there lias been great doings and all hands have evidently joined in the slugging. The first cable reads: In a boxing match at Dieppe between Bernard and Quiendea, the latter was disqualified in the second round. He was apparently on the point of being knocked out when lie struck the referee. His. second also jumped into the ring and assaulted the referee, whreupon the police intervened. Burnard is cue of th 8 best of French welters, a lad not out of his teens, and it is said that for some time past he has been anxious to swap clouts with, his fellow countryman, ■Carfventier. -

■Quiendea is not numbered among my acquaintances, but is probably one of those young Belgian boxers, who are rapidly making names for themselves in the fistic firmament. A second cable which says:—At the fight at Dieppe there were four thousand spectators, including many women, who were wild with excitementDecamps’ manager seized Carpentier round tho waist. Tho boxer was enraged, and fought to free himself. Carpentier was forced out of the ring. A burly figure seized Decamps and threw him over the ropes among the spectators.

e Later on Evenden refused to stop is fighting, whereupon AFaitron, tho powerfully-built referee, lifted him y and twice flung him to the heard, a causing a sensation. Officials and the t boxer’s friends poured into the ring, and about thirty free fights commence edt There was pandemonium in the 1 building, and the gendarmes had to be □ reinforced. The festival broke up in' B confusion. I Descamps ds /manager for Carponi tier, and why he should exhibit such signs of affection for his protege as to . enter the ring and encircle- him with ) loving arms passes comprehension. s Probably Carpentier was getting . smashed somewhat and that Descamps had his e}’e turned to future business, [ and this caused the affection display. Evenden is one of England’s most premising welters and has for some time past cast longing eyes on the English championship belt, held by young Joseph. From the foregoing cable things must have hummed some at the contests. Anyhow fuller details would bo of interest, and those- who follow the art of slugging will await the arrival of the English anail with no little impatience.

• * * Jim Barry Again. Cable advices received during the week state that Jim Barry had been arrested, at San Francisco for assaulting the fourth officer of tho Zealandia during the trip from Auckland. It appears that Barry entered into a dispute with another passenger over cards and tho officer interfered, hence the illegal stouch. From the remarks Barry worked off during his stay in Auckland one would imagine that he did not get enough coin out of his Australian hidings to indulge in even such a mild dissipation as gambling. Anyway, even though he failed to secure a decent win in his wallop affairs in Australia ho is hardly -likely to oome out on the right side of the ledger in his latest slugging act, after the U.S.A. courts have put him through the mill. * » Flynn and Johnson. On next Thursday, “the Glorious Fourth,” Flyml and Johnson are writ-

ten down, to do their .stunt for the moving picture people. We have not been inflicted on this occasion in which the world’s title is at stake with the guff cables that characterised - the Jeffries-Johnson farce at Iteno. It will he remembered that every time Jeff’s waist-band was reduced an eighth of an inch the great tidings wore flashed from pole to polo, and the hash was served out in regal style to a suffering public. Of the contest to take place next week l.ttle new* has filtered this way, the general co—census of opinion in all parts of the boxing world being that Flynn v, ould get tile father of a hiding and consequently the matter should he tin urd down with as little noise and fuss a? possible. On the face of things Flynn should certainly have dealt out to him a hiding so complete that it would bo impossible for Johnson or anyone else to make a neater job of it. The performances of the two men point that way. No doubt Flynn considers the consolation prize in the shape of the losers end of the purse will be big enough to" act, as a balm on the wounds he is certain to cop in the affair. The Pnbelo Fireman is on optimistic individual, and probably reckons there' is a chance of Johnson getting cold feet or drunk or something equally bad and injurious to fighters. About Flynn’s only hope is for Johnson to become so fatigued in dealing out the stousli to Flynn that ho drops from sheer exhaustion and long before that happens the man from the footplate would he so minced up that he would be a candidate for a sausage skin casing to keep him together. If, apart from any lucky chance, Flynn wrests the little Mary circlet from its present owner I will be the first to admit that the white man is a much better man than I reckoned him to he, hut sizing him up on his latest displays his chances of even extending the niggali are about as good as Buckley’s.

Mew Zealanders in Australia. Alf. Bromwich outecl Otto Frost in the iirst round of their contest at Sydney on Inst Saturday week. Barney Ireland is in Sydney looking for matches, and, of course, coin. Bill Rudd was outed by a young American named Terry Kellar in the thirteenth round at the Gaiety, Sydney, last Monday week. After leading well on points Rudd copped a right and left on the nose and a third landed in the vicinity of his breadbasket, and he was counted out.