Carpentier Fights Campaign To Ban Sports Professionalism
In France
GEORGES CARPENTIER, the "Orchid man" who battled Jack Dempsey 19 year ago at New Jer- sey's Boyles 30 acres, is fighting now against the cur- rent campaign to ban professionalism from all French sports except cycling, writes Steve Fulton, of the United Press, from Vichy,
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BOROTRA BANS
SOCCER MATCH
Sports Dictator Jean Borotra last month ban- ned the interzone football match between picked all- star teams of free and oc- cupied zones scheduled in Paris on March 9.
the weather, the Football League programme for Saturday was carried out and resulted in Middlesex trouncing RUGBY Police by five clear goals in First Dision to register their third suc-CLUB won the Blarney Stone acessive win.
seven-a-side Rugby tourna- Ordnance in Second Division ment when they beat H 8th Heavy was another team to win three R.A. by 21-0 in the final,
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Borotra called off Tamar were not at full strength Middlesex juniors by the odd goal and were handicapped by an ear-after German occupation authori
were ties refused to grant visas to 15. ly injury to Honywill and in five.
St. Joseph's did well to hold beaten in the Quarter-Finals by players from the free zone to enter Tamer had a the occupied area. The match Eastern to a 2-1 score till late in 8th R.A. by 5-3. the game when their defence col-great chance of equalising but they was intended to replace the an- from an easy nual national football champion- lapsed and conceded two further failed to convert
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Carpentier's principal opponent gue, great middle-distance runner, is Jean Borotra, famed "bounding still is in the army as a "runner". Basque" of French Davis Cup, carrying division Tennis teams, who has been ap- motorcycle. pointed sports "czar" of conquered' Meanwhile, Primo (satchel foot);
Carnera still is carried on French records as # deserter. Gentlenian Georges, recently Several years ago, Carnera of Italy, demobilised as a sergeant after became a French citizen and was serving the entire war with
a entered on French army records French Air Force squadron, came as an infantryman. But he ignor- to Vichly-present capital of the ed the summons for duty when unoccupied
-to protest the war started. against Borotra's theories.
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Then Carpentier hastened Pärls where he is joining a power- ful group representing football and other professional sports, un- der the presidency of M. Jules Rimet, head of the International Football Federation. Rimet and his associates are organising a campaign to defeat Borotra's plans.
Ban Would Kill Sport
Carpentier contends that Boro- tra's proposed ban of professional- ism would kill football, boxing and wrestling in France both pro and amateur. He points to the success of professional baseball, football, ice hockey, boxing and wrestling in the United States as proof that professionalism and amateurism can exist side by side and that The paid performers actually serve as an inspiration for amateurs 10 become more pro- ficient.
The former leather-tosser asks, "What is to be gained by suppress- ing professionalism in sports!"
"Borotra forgets that it was only through professional athletes that French sports became known abroad," he said. "The number of professionals naturally is limit- ed because they represent the elite of sport and must undergo 11 severe selection. They inspire in the great masses of athletes an emulation which can only profit the amateur. Without that emula- tion and without the glory which a few famous athletes can give to national sports, all sports-ama- teur as well as professionel-will perish.
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crusade, it can be noted that no major French athlete was killed during the war although hundreds were nobilised. However, half of those athletes who saw service are prisoners of war in German and Austrian camps. The revival of competitive sports will be handi- capped until they are freed.
Marcel Thil, former middle- weight champion, has been demo- bilised from the navy and bas returned to Rheims to re-open his coal business. Alex Youssem, the heavyweight who returned from New York to France for the war, is awaiting demobilisation before heading for New York again,
Tennis Players Prisoners
Rene Lacoste, former Davis cup- per, is demobilised, but the younger tennis players, Ivon Petra and Pelizza, still are prisoners in German camps. Jules Ladoume-
PATERSON WINS BY A KNOCK-OUT
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