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Show Georges Carpentier Will Again Return to Boxing Game, if Injuries Permit Plans Bout With Winner of Coming Fight Between Be-tween Lurie and McCloskey; Tendler Issues a Defi to Benny Leonard; British Flyweight ( Champ Arranges Match With Conn. By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to Tho Tribune. MILWAUKEE, July SO. Georges Carpentier, the wonderful French light-heavyweight, who won the European champiou-: champiou-: ship before the war, is anxious now to ! havo another try at tho game, despite j the fact that, 'he announced his intention inten-tion of retiring some tune ago. It was stated then that, the French boxer had been wounded, and subsequent illness 1 would prevent his re-entry into the ! r;ng even after the war. However, tloorges must have recovered, and, i'ur-vvoe-more, he must be feeling in fine fet- ic to make such a decision, for ho is , ase young man aud has plenty of j J experience in such mat ters during the f j Past three years. j Lurie, the French heavyweight whom I Carpentier fought once before, is now I matched to fight Blink MeCloskov, who 1 recently battled four rounds with Jack Johnson, ex-colored champion, in Spain, and Georges has announced his intention inten-tion of fighting tho winner. He will ' jiave to obtain leave of absence from his militarv duties to train for the match if it'is made, as he is still under orders of the army officials. McCloskey is no chicken, having fought around the eastern states for eight vears before going t-o France in Wll. He is still there with the foueh-"ess, foueh-"ess, as his match with Jack Johnson proved. It is a good bet that Blink Iwdl defeat Lurie, in which event he will have a chance at t he famous Frenchman, French-man, and then it will bo "good night" fir Blink, if the dope goes right. V ord also comes from France th:tt Johnny Summers, former welterweight champion of Great Hritnin. who was severely wounded in the fighting some time ago, has recovered and is out of !e hospital. He will probably be pven a staff job now, having been recommended rec-ommended for promotion. Johnny jocd twice since he joined the army, ut the chances aro ho is through for od now. He is 3") years of age aud Lfor retirement. cGoorty to Fight Greb. ' Kddie McGoovty. at one time consid-C'C(I consid-C'C(I one of the most dangerous middle-weights middle-weights in the world and a very near champion, is to have another chance to jrab tlie championship not of the U. ! A. nor the world, but of the army P and navy. Mike 0 'Dowd has about the best claim to the title just now, although al-though Harry Greb also lays claim to the same crown, and both' are in the j service at present. There has oeen considerable rivalry between the two boys since they joined the colors, and now they are to liaVe a chance to demonstrate which is the superior among Uncle Sam's sea and land forces. They have been matched to box ten rounds at Fort Sheridan, III., July 27, and a decision given, the winner to be. hailed as service champion. The weight has been set at 16o pounds, and the fight will be held in the open air arena at tho fort, starting at 1 p. ;u. .McGoorty is 29 years of ago and well experienced, having battled the greatest middieweigliis of his time, including the wonderful Lester Darcy, who met such a sad end in this country. Eddie demonstrated in his recent bouts at Racine, Wis., that he can go the distance dis-tance of ten rounds without "blowing up," and under the training he has had at camp, be should be in even better condition than when he fought I'M! Harrison and Bobb Moha. Greb is yonuger. being St. and ambitious. ambi-tious. He is not so clever as Mc.Coortv, but he is full of action at all times and does not know what it. means to back up. The contest should prove a verv interesting one, for it will be a fighte'r against a boxer, and they usually' turn out well from a fighting standpoint. The question is will McGoorty 's experience ex-perience and science offset Greb's stamina find aggressiveness? Tendler Challenges Leonard. Lew Tendler. the sensational Philadelphia Phila-delphia lightweight who has been fighting fight-ing the best boys in ,'ie division and making himself appear more like 3 champion every start, is out with a challenge to Benny Leonard, tho title holder, for a championship match. It is all acor.iing to Hoyle, and Tendler hn.s a right to issue a defi to the champion cham-pion and to demand a meeting within ;i reasonable time, but he will have a hard time trying to dictate the weight: terms to the champion. Tendler. through his manager, I'h.'l Classman, says he will fight Leonard over any distance us long as the title (Continued ou Page Four.) CARPENTIER WILL JEIilTOilS (Continued from Page One.) is at stake, and that be wil post a forfeit for-feit of $5000 to guarantee that he "-"il go through vrith the same, anil, if need be, will make a side bet' in addition. He stipulates that the weight shall be 133 pounds ringside, and that where the bitch will come. r.versincc "Willie Kirehio won the title from Ad Wolgast. the weight has been placed at 135 pounds at 3 o'clock, and that is the weight Leonard set when Charlie White wanted a rry at the crown. It is doubtful whether Leonard could do 133 at 3 o'clock, let alone ringside, and it is a cinch that he will not let Mr. Tendler or anyone else dictate the weight to him .where a championship match is concerned. If Tendler gets a chance at Benny with the weight placed at 135 at 3 o'clock, he will be fortunate, for there are others chasing him hard for the chance right now, especially Charley "White, Johnny Dundee. Richie Mitchell. Frankie Callahan aud Patsy Cline. Ana at that Tendler looks to be as strong a contender for tho title as any of the bunch. Rolph Claims Title. Reports from across the big pond say that Sergeant Rolph of Alberta, Canada, won the middleweight championship cham-pionship of the inter-allied armies when he defeated Jim Sullivan of 'London, stopping him in one round before over 3000 Sammies at the National Sporting club in London. There must be some mistake about the title, as Sullivan did uot hold the championship at the time he battled- against Rolph, having been defeated in a title match by Pa t O'Kcefe on February 21, 1916, in- London. Lon-don. We have no record of Sullivan having beaten 0 'Keef e since that time, and as both were in (he army, it is only natural that Pat would carry the title along with him. I Rolph hails from western Canada : aud has had a number' of contests in the army tournaments, winning all of them and following up with the defeat of Sullivan in one round. It is possible possi-ble that O 'Keef e lost or forfeited his claim to the title, but no word to that cfect has been received here of late. i There are numerous young soldiers who have been making good in the box-iDg box-iDg tourneys, and Rolph will no doubt be kept busy defending his claim to i the new honor. He will have to meet ! uot only the Yanks, but also the boys from New Zealand and Australia, besides be-sides new ones coming to the frout in Fin win nd . country runs and boxing, tlic boys have been kept in wonderful condition and always ready for a scrap with the Fritz-ies. Fritz-ies. It is a grand army and the folhs at home have reason to feel proud of them. 'With all this turmoil, we have been holding boxing tourneys just the same. "We have just finished another big championship tourney. i'ou can imagine im-agine what a big undertaking it is to organize a tournament for an army in the field. However, a committee w:as formed, of which yours truly was a member. We got in touch with division di-vision and they with brigade, and bri-gadewith bri-gadewith battalions, aud so on. Each division was allowed one competition in each class, which totaled six in all. You can understand that divisions had their work cut out boxing off for their champions. "I was appointed honorable secretary for our division and. managed to pull the show oft5 O. K. I had sonic very fine boys vrho gave a real good account ac-count oi themselves in the corps championships. cham-pionships. ''Well, the final arrangements were fixed up by M a j o r Mitchell, C a p ta in Schwartz (the ISou! h African bowlor) and myself. We had a large aerodrome for the stadium and put a fine ric in the center. Seating capacity yas about 3000, admission 3 francs and 1 franc. Present at the ringside were Oerie-ral Birdwood and staff, General Rrand, General Monash and other prominent officers. including of ficers ' tourna- ' ment. there were twenty-two fights ou the first day and eighteen on the final day. The boxing- i.vas fine. "Silly Wells agreed to box with rac. but at the last moment I was barret owin to aftereffects of my wound, viz., j a weak jaw.'' ' Wilde to Box Conn. Jimmy Wilde, tho clever British flyweight fly-weight champion, is in shape again and is goiug out of his class to meet a very clever hid named Joe Conn. The latter recently defeated Curlcy Walker, the former featherweight champion, but Wilde has beeu finding it hard to get ; matches at his own weight, and will give away more poundage than usual this time. In announcing the match the editor of London Sporting Life says: "We understand that negotiations have been practically concluded for an important contest in London next month, and there is the prospect of another an-other in the not far distant future. The match which has taken definite shape 1 is to be between Jimmy Wilde, the world's flyweight champion; and Joe Conn, who has just defeated Cur ley Walker in most convincing style. H will, of course, be a handicap match, j for this is usual where Wilde is con- j cerned, the Welshman having agreed to allow Conn to come at 126 pounds. The : I offer made him i3, however, so tempt-J tempt-J ing that he cannot be blamed for tak-: ling the risk of giving so 'ranch weight I awav ( Wilde weighs only 102 pounds), I as the purse will total at least Pl.j,(J0U, j out of which Wilde will receive the (lion's share, in addition to a percent-I percent-I age of the picture rights. "The other match referred to is still in the air, but here again the purse offered of-fered may bring about the desired result, re-sult, which is a meeting between Sergeant Ser-geant Bombardier Wells and Frank Goddard. Jack Calls ahan has offered $12,500 for the match, of which 8000 will go to the winner. Goddard is the young heavyweight who has been defeating de-feating all comers in England of late, and is iriven a strong chance to beat Wells.' r Boxing- Toui ney in France. Thereis no denying the Australian soldiers their sports, even when back of the lines in the war zone ;n PVancc. Among the t,roops from Australia arc-hundred? arc-hundred? of good boxers, and they have their tournaments as though thev were at the big stadium in Sydney. Gordon Coghil, the clever Svdnev heavyweight who had main- g o o 1 battles bat-tles there before the war started. ha wittca a letter in which he tells of thf splendid doings of the boys from the Antipodes. In part. Captain Coghil 1 says: 'What with football, hoc Ley. cro;3- |