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Show Society Women Interested in Willard-Carpentier Go . 1 , cy - - s sA -? Miss Anne Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Marbury to Handle Funds. IT is enough to make Tom l'"igg turn over in his grave. The modern ring is being elevated to a plane which the " most rabid dreamer never would have conceived. Two young American women with red blood coursing through their veins have declared de-clared themselves sponsors for the proposed pro-posed international hea vy weight bout between Larpontier and Willard, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Kichly gowned women ha ve preempted pre-empted the ring scats at the Cirque dc Paris during a boxing .bout. Olympia in London has seated members of the royal family and women of distinction while Larpeut ier beat the heavyweight idol Bombardier Weils, but America is going them all one better. Two society women are going to handle the purse-strings purse-strings of the ring contest of the cento cen-to rv if the ma tch is final I v consummated. consum-mated. As they are both busiuess women, wom-en, it means that a minimum amount of dollars will filter out of the purse. Thev will see that the meshes aro so small that not a jitney will set away. Miss Anue Morgan, who has inherited much of the business acumen of her father, the late .1. Hierpont Morgan, and Miss Klirabeth Marbury are the sponsors who have electrified the fistic world. M iss Morgan is treasurer of The American fund for the breach wounded, under the auspices of which it is honed to bring Larpentier lie re. Mis? Mar-burv. Mar-burv. who is aWo actively interested in the' French fund, said that her interest inter-est in the proposed bout -n-as solely to ' see that the .f.V.Miuii which she hoped I the fund would receive from the pro-j pro-j ceed was properlv handled. I "Miss Anne Morgan and I willingly ! consented several weeks ago, when ap-i ap-i proa .dud (,n the subject, to see that the I fund, whether amounting to this sum or more, be forwarded to France for the i purpose intended. ' ' Miss Mm bury is j quoted as saving (ieorges a r pen tier is I bad'.v needed at the front these days. ! for his duties are such that his place ! would be hard to till. It will take much ! effort if French officials are dually pre-! pre-! vailed upon To extend him leave, although al-though thev mav be told that a few 1 mom hs here would mean much for i VVemdi wom-'o and children. ! "If he tieailv does come over and the ; bout i held, the public 'an be a-siirrd j that the 1r.01.ev contributed through the ! purcha-e of ticket wiil be used for the i purpose seated. That. T wish to repeat. ; is the oniv reason Mi Morgan and I ! are in: ere-ted at all in I he proposition. " 1 Of colors-', a soon as the propose I 1 rr.tttch was made public the anvil chorus I started to work with its tnorrv hammers, j One wee'; hampbui Willard is eon-' eon-' demned for not fighting, and then as I vunti a- an opr.en-'ut suggested he iG I ai-o ridiculed and rated as having no j chance with the Kansas cowh-v giant. J Wil'.arl can never be beaten if'he does not ligh: . Who ca n suggest the man 1 who is to dethrone hint? 1 George- ('arp-Mitier out lasse? the crop of sO'-ond and third class heavyweights we have in this eountrv. Before" he blossomed into manhood he waded through all the classes. ;ind finally won the hea vvweight title of Furope bv beating Bo m ba rd ier Wells, knocking him out twice, once tn the fourth round ami the second time in the first -round. The w riter has seen t 'arpentier box in the gymnasium and in the rin g a gain -t welterweight-, middleweight s and heavyweights. U is a finished boxer, knows rip.geraft and ran punch with bnth hands. n man. nor even Willard. can heat Larpentler unless he is in perfect phw-ical condition and prepare pre-pare i to travel at top speed. |