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Show CARPENTIER AND SMITHJO MEET iondon, July 17. -London did lit tie today except talk about last night's fight at Olympia Out of the talk as chronicled in most of the daily newspapers comes evidence that there Is practically unanimous agreement on the following points. 1. Smith set at rest all discussion of the question whether he actually hit Carpentler when the latter was on the floor, by admitting that he (probably) did The motion pictures pic-tures put on view tonight also prove that he did a harmless, glancing right-hand swing that just grazed the Frenchman s head, exactly as Smith stated last night in giving his version ver-sion of the Incident. 2. It Is a fact admitted by Referee Corri himself, that "Gunboat' actu vally received a count of thirteen seconds sec-onds when Carpentler knocked him to the canvas in the fourth round This, however, is held not an import ant matter, because both sides had agreed to let Corri do the counting, and the latter asserts that as he told off the nine counts, he did his best to make them accord with the actual seconds 3. The question whether Cnrpen-tier Cnrpen-tier was not automatically disqualified disquali-fied the moment his manager jumped into the ring, is disposed of by Corri In the following statement "I was quite prepared to let the right go on if Carpentler could get up. I have been blamed for being too severe, but. as a matter of fact. ! had no desire to end the contest until I saw that the Frenchman had " |