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Show PLAN FIGHT FOK FRENCH CHAMPION St Paul, Aug 15. Edward Reddy, manager for Miko Gibbons, has received re-ceived a wire from Billy Gibson, tho matchmaker at the MadlBon Squaro Athletic club or New York, offering to stage a bout between Gibbons and George Carpentlor, tho French middleweight middle-weight champion. Gibson Is desirous of matching Gibbons and the French champion for the early days of September, Sep-tember, and while both Reddy and Gibbons are willing to accept the proposition, final arrangements have not been made. In his wire Gibson Informed In-formed Reddy that the teBt weight Carpentler would do for Gibbons is 104 pounds ringside, while the middleweight mid-dleweight limit is 15S Gibbons, at his best, weighs only about 152, so in order to get a battle with tho foreigner foreign-er tho St. Paul marvel would be forced to gle awny more than ten pounds of wolght But despite tho difference in weight, Reddy is willing to sign up the match provided, of course, thot tho money end of the proposition can be satisfactorily arranged although ho would insist that the dato be sot for the third or last week of September. |