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Show NEW YORK W SEE CffflTIEfl RGHTfUl Crack Heavyweights Will Meet in Two Months; $40,-000 $40,-000 Will Go to French War Relief Fund. NEW YORK, Tec. 5. Tentative arrangements ar-rangements for the appearance of Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight champion, in a local boxing arena for the benefit of a French war relief fund are expected to be completed within the next forty-eight hours. Tex Riekard, who is endeavoring to stage the bout, plans to pit the famous pugilistic idol against Jess Wiliard or Les Darcy of Australia in a ten-round, no-decision bout at luadison Square Garden la ie in February, unless there Is an eleven th-hour upset of his plans. Both Carpentier and TVitlard have given their verbal consent to proposals of the "S" promoter, who has conductej his nego-tiations nego-tiations with the French champion ) (Continued on Following Page.) I JEHiGilTiLL (Continued From Preceding Pafie.') throvcrh member? of iho Arnerloan fund for French wounded, one of Hie many allied war relief organizations in this country. It was i("'i'SHary to obtnin the assistance of tills association if Carpen-' Carpen-' tier was to sot a i urloimli from the Fronrh army, with v.iiich he has been fighting since the beslnnins "f the war. Carpentier Has Furlough. It is understood by thofe most Interested Inter-ested in the propose-1 contest that the I'Veneh army authorities have agreed to Rive L'arpe;uiT th rls!ro:l Iphvg of absence ab-sence in view of the fact that the boxer has expressed con:p:ete willingness to dona do-na to his share of the purse to the relief fund. Contracts between Carpentier. t'ie officers of-ficers of the. AnnvtcRn fund for French wounded rind Pro'votcr VMokard Imve been dr?wn up in triplicate and one of these, is thoucht to have arrived In Paris to- : d3yTor the signature of the French pugilist. pugi-list. The contract, which stipulates that Carpentier shall meet any white boxer s-'iected by Rickard. calls for the payment pay-ment of $c.,0.'0 to the American fund for French wounde.l. .?20,nfin to Carpentier, in addition to firmn fcr his traveling ex- rjfc penses. and a like amount for his share ' of the movinsj picture receipts. The fund I to receive approximately one-third of the -moving picture proceeds and a certain cer-tain percentage of ihe Rate receipts . should thev exceed a piven figure. s i Darcy May Be Available. Just as soon as Carpentier's appearance is assured. Rickard will complete arrangements arrange-ments for sipning a suitable opponent for 1 the French champion. "He recently made a trip to Chicago to interview Jess Wil-lard. Wil-lard. the world s heavyweight champion, , on the proposition to' face Carpentier in , a ten-round bout. Willard expressed perfect per-fect willingness to box the French pugilist, pugi-list, but is understood to have asked what , Rickard thought was an extremely high i fiernre. for his services. I Willard declared lie could get into con- ; dltion for the contest if given six weeks; in which to train, and lie will be the opponent oppo-nent selected if the question oi his share of the purse can be adjusted to the satisfaction satis-faction of the pugilist and the promoter. In case Wi! lard's terms are too high. Rickard will endeavor to sign up Les Darcy, the Australian middle weight, to meet" Carpentier. Darcy is understood to be on his way to this country by way ' of South America and has notified friends ; that he expects to arrive here about Jan- i uary 15. . 1 There is some mystery surrounding his : reported departure from Australia, but ! Rickard has stated that if Darcy is not I available there are several American heavyweights who would request an op- i portunity to met Carpentier for a share of the big purse that the promoter has an- ! nounced he is ready to offer, 1 GEOKGFS CARPENTIER, French champion, who may meet Jess Willard in battle bat-tle for world's heavy-.veight title. 'I I ' 1 ? i 4 t ' ' 8 i ' I !' I r; i " i. v y 8 . J It- S ' i I I 1( . V x ' J j ij |