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Mexican Governor May Prevent Heavybattle THURSDAY. JAM. mm imo. THE NEWS SCIMITA. PAGE THIRTEEN MEXICAN GOVERNOR MAY PREVENT HEAVY BATTLE Carpentier Willing to JiMMY WILOE TO OVER HIS TEA CARPENTIER TELLS COOK JIMMY CLABBY TO HOW HE KNOCKED BRITISH CHAMP OUT Make Concessions MEET KID ASHER RETURN TO U. Si. French Will Not the match after he had heard from Attaboy! Heavyweight Harvey. IN SAINT LOUIS WRITES ANDREWS Kick on Utoney Or Weight COCHRAN BUSY. in Proposed Match With CHICAGO, Jar.. 8. That Jack Demp- ON THE TELEPHONE. sey could not meet Georges Carpentier British Wants Another Crack at Gib- By day and night; by week and month at Me . 4. was the Flyweight Champion Tia Juana. July I the Jack Dempsey. statement made yesterday by ('harles grasp telephone; B. Cochran. London flzht promoter, who Makes Second Bow to U. S. bons Who Shaded Him Four I pick the old receiver up PARIS. Jan. 8 Georges Carpentier Is said that Carpentier (II alreadv under To aadly curse and moan. billing, to five concession in the mat- contract to Cochran, The Public Years Ago-Ot- her News and I ter of to Fighting Thursday speak about the service, punk weight In order meet Jack who promoted the Carpentier and It Dempsey, according to a statement Beckett fight In London and who Is Night. of the And plead for sudden end of made tonight to the Associated Press now in Chicago, declared today that Gossip Ring. But this Is all I ever get: by Desdamps, Carientler's manager his contract with the Frenchman was "I and 1 11 to it." said lie was to and M. BY COYLE SHEA. BY T, S. ANDREWS. thank you sir attend Descamps willing split binding and that Carpentier ,11m-m- v ST. Ut)l is, Jan. Wilde, the BYDNET, N H. W Malll the 1400.000 purse offered by James Cof- Descamps. his manager, would b liable British j uiinij. (By froth on a basis. of SO per cent for the If It was broken. flyweight champion, is making flabby, the American middleweight At hearing such a pleasant voice winner 40 would not his Southern debut ban this availing who formerly held that title, hat left for and per cent for the loser. He rlt rated that he offer when he the. I hack abashed is $200. 00". 10 takes on Rape Asher at New Zealand, and his Opponents will away "Carpentier willing to iourney to Dempsev more than plu Coliseum. wilt some- A a strange land, face an exotic of at 850.000 The Uriton get tract to the boxing assoi iation there helpless as a dollar check climate, weeks vaudeville like $5,000 or ti,000 for his work. Is . give away from 25 to 30 pounds in thing for two battles Jimmy to That long ago was cashed. 60 The battle will bring forth Wilde for meet two of the best In weight and accept a split of and OBJECT. his middleweight But when I for aid 40 of Mr. Coffroth's said GOVERNOR MAY second start In the I'nited States, New :ea'and. and his opponents will again bfg offer," his skit in Mil- a That she could lend to it "We had intended to demand MKXICAL1. Lower California. Mexlc . opening being staged prohablv be Tommy O'Neill and pupil quickly 0 waukee with Jack On this I a split, but are willing to accept Jan. 8. Gov. E'teban Cantu. whose Sharkey. of Dave Smith Jimmy does not con- only get the same old tune: a 0 Lower sprightly occasion Jimmy, the champ, sider that the matches will be very division in order to show this jurisdiction Includes Tia Juana. was Inch "I thank you air and I'll attend to it." g trimmed within an of his life, he get- is not merely a money-makin- propo- Callforria. stated he had not hard, but Just the same Intends yesterday but managed to retain his bearing as in r sition, but also a sporting event. We been asked for any permit for the fight well ting prop shape will now as to collect $11,000 for the lu contests he will return not I the words endeavor to give American sports- between Dempsey and Carpentier. rounds of After these It's that detest men a real for Tin Juana, on boxing. to Australia and prepare to ear--But championship battle." tentatively planned Wilde is not for as much op- arcomp.ui That trickle in my Julv 4 next. looking the American boys back to the (Tnl'ed position from Asher as he got from He his rather it's the way she puts CONPEETmTRSDAY. The governor said he knew nothing with States hae alreadv announced of Coffroth's and added Sharkey, the latter boy being rated Intel, lion of Mike O'Dowd It over, sweet and dear. Promoter plans, the h stars of the division. At challenging SAN DIEGO. Cal., Jan. 8. Details of that the could not be staged Tor the world's title He is also after I of Hell and of a phone fight the same time he learned enough in ot speak the proposed match at Tia Juana, Low without the consent of the government. Milwaukee to on another match " ith Mike (iibbons I'm then to send to it er between He he did not wish now to realize that the game St. Paul and Ilarrv C.reb of Pitts- willing California, Jack Dempsey said express this side of so as I and for Ihe world's himself as to his attitude it the water is not easy Vet when finish, she replies: Georges Carpentier probable he had no burgh 11 were to be a be thougnt. There are Eugene would like to have another "I lhank and attend to it. heavyweight, ifiamplonship permit should sought. Corris to referee, for one thing, and Jimmy you sir discussed at a conference here today hold in America try with millions, as th last time man- they don't Knglish grit Georges Carpentier and Mme. Vaavelbrouc. In between Jack Kearns, Iempeey's FIGHT. in that same en- they mot, which was Malwaiikee over There Is no reason why Nasl ille box MILLER WANTS high esteem that it Oib-hon- s. ager, and James W. Coffroth. promoter. In four years ago. (he shade went to shows should not be .lean The 8. joys dear old London. If fans in the United States for Ing Coffroth early today was without di- LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Jan. Jack In ring thought one minute that anv of our At that time Clabhy was not arena Is over the GARRY HERRMANN v America It is to Just laundry. rect word from late necessary rap husky mitt artists sipped tea of an afternoon said artists would get the old .lohn In and Is Descamp, Capentier's Kearns, Dempsey's manager, someone on the cove to obtain a de- Razz. Is the best condition, anxious that his terms had been ac- he had received a But that Just because It Isn't done in this country, you know. Now. to m et and show he manager, announced cision, one's mere presence In the over in knocked his old rival that A look at Devil Dog Randolph and cepted, but said he had cabled Charles from Col. J. C. Miller, of ring France Georges Carpentier. French idol who Jo Beckett of can reverse the former decision. Jim- one Is not at tiie finish telegram closed doesn't count for a thing. emf land Into ring oblivion can take tea and a.va with it. the surprised quick J. Harvey, his agent In London, to get Oklahoma, asking if he had with If Wilde looks for the recently, get It's my's last two hattles here showed hltn he drew In his meeting with Ijtrry ' In touch at once wltlv V. Coffroth for Dempsey to good enough proper thing. This interesting photo shows him having a sip and a bite with1 lo be In he Descamps and Jhnies fight money he may be offered a bout tn Mme. Woman who good condition, and Avera In Nashville Monday night. BE OUSTED advise of Tia and advising Vauvelhrnuc. the pracflitjA hid meals while he as training for In Carpentier and him their Carpentier at Juana, Memphis with some good bantam. But the bout. all of Ins old tine cleverness. Randolph was slopped the second plans. Kearns that If he had not it would Beckett He is certnlnlv the most Amer- The kid have been a blame good W first of all he has Asher to handle. popular might Is on to wait until he had received in be ' Meantime, he proceeding the pay him ican boxed who ever entered a ring private, but as a boxer Isn't there theory, he said, that Associated Press Miller's offer. Miller to BOTH IN GOOD SHAPE. advices from Paris to the effect that Kearns wild he had asked Bill Bout. Just before the bout Randolph gave BY had his offer were forward his but added if 8. Squires Seeks n statement that ran like Descamps accepted -proposition, ST. LOUIS. .Tan. Jimmy Wilde out something COUSIN correct. Coffroth has- signed Carpentier, any to- Hill the Australian heav this: "Avera he a classy boy, would British flyweight boxing champion, Squires, may He aid he expected to construct an offer from Miller or anyone else day was In excellent condition for his weight, who went to the United States but where come from they know how arena at Tia Juanta to accommodate a be He declared he had acted to- about to annihilate Tom-m- to I'll show him." Ignored.
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