THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1941
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Carpentier Fights Campaign To Ban Sports Professionalism
In France
GEORGES CARPENTIER, the "Orchid man' who battled Jack Dempsey 19 years 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, France,
orders on
SATURDAY'S SPORTS BOROTRA BANS
FOOTBALL
ON spite of
Signals are now on level terms with Air Force at the head -of Third Division.
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SOCCER MATCH
Sports Dictator Jean the weather, the
Borotra last month ban- Football League programme:
ned the interzone football for Saturday was carried out and resulted in Middlesex trouncing RUGBY
match between picked all- Police by five clear goals in First,
star teams of free and oc- Dision to register their third suc-CLUB won the Blarney Stone acessive win.
seven-a-side Rugby tourna cupied zones scheduled in Ordnance in Second Divisionment when they beat H 8th Heavy Paris on March 9.
team to win three R.A. by 21-0 in the final. was another times in a row when they beat
Tamar were not at full strength Borotra called off the Middlesex juniors by the odd goal and were handicapped by an ear-after German occupation authori- in five.
ly injury to Honywill and were ties refused to grant visas to 15 St., Joseph's did well to hold beaten in the Quarter-Finals by players from the free zone to enter Eastern to a 2-1 score till late in 8th R.A. by 5-3. Tamar had a the occupied area. The match the game when their defence col-| great chance of equalising but they was intended to replace the an- lapsed and conceded two further falled to convert from an easynual national football champion- goals.
position.
ship. United Press.
Carpentier's principal opponent gue, great middle-distance runner, is Jean Borotra, famed "bounding still is in the army as a "runner".
division French Davis Cup carrying of Basque" Tennis teams, who has been ap-motorcycle. pointed sports "czar" of conquered France.
Gentleman Georges, recently demobilised as a sergeant after serving the entire war with a French Air Force squadron, came to Vichy-present capital of the unoccupied area to protest against Borotra's theories.
Then Carpentier hastened to Paris where he is joining a power- ful group representing football und other professional sports, un- der the presidency of M. Jules | Rimet, head of the International Football Federation, Rimet and his associates
organising a campaign 10 defeat Borotia'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 to become more pro- ficient.
The former leather-tosser asks, "What is to be gained by suppress- ing professionalism in sports!"
Meanwhile, Primo (satchel foot) Carnera still is carried on the French records as A deserter. Several years ago, Carnern of Italy became a French citizen and was entered on French army records as an. Infantryman. But he ignor- ed the summons for duty when the war started.
"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 il severe selection. The 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 professional—will perish."
No Athletes Killed
In connection with Carpentier's crusade, it can be noted that no major French athlete was killed during the war although hundreds
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Marcel Thil, former middle- weight champion, has been demo- bilised from the navy and 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 cam Jules Ladoume-
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He had. Stewart down · for count of eight in the third round before finishing the contest with a smash to the jaw.
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