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Show JOE BECKETT I AND GEORGES 1 MAY BE SIGNED U jThen, the Dope Says, Win-! Win-! ner Will Meet Dempsey In London By SPARROW M'GXN Special Oofreapondent of Tho Stand-lu-d-1 -Ixa miner. (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) NEW YOLK NOV. 2'o Word from the other side of the ocean indicates that announcement will shortly b made of tho matching of Joe Bockett and Georges Carpentlir for a fight in I London early in December. The dope Is that the winner will meet Jacrf Dempsey m the British capita) some time after the first of tho year, prob- ablj in Pebrus ry. At least this Is the cnglo the British Brit-ish promoters are playing But Tex Richard with his new base of opera- tions apparently clinched the r.ew j Yankee baseball stadium may have ' a wbrd tw to sov about Ihls. I Talk of his hrliiTlng Harry Wills and i .lark I " mi" tpether ha.n more basis now than it has had since last ele Jon ilny. t s said that Gover-nor-eieet Smith Is not opposed to mix In t. lu.ut.-. :n in- present governor. Miller, ha-; always been so opposed. PUBLIC OPINION As the Situation stands at present nothing but th disinclination of one flghti P or the othrr to get Into tho ring would cause the fight to fall by the wayside. Of course, public opin-I opin-I ion against 'he white and black man might swa the new governor to give heed to the well known vox popuii. Bo rar as that goes there is no doubt that a storm of protent. would arla ,r 1 wre th- two to be matched. If it erere efl ei live in preventing th mateh Ihen Beckett If things break right would be s tine attraction But the thing that looks sickest about the heavyweight In this country is the lack of building up activities on the part "f the parties who might be Interested In staging a championshp bout. Neither Beckett nor any other i ea weight Is being brought forward nnd touted and played up generally o.r a future opponent for Dempsey. LUIS FIRPO QUITS. Floyd Johnson may get Into the llmil:rht later in the winter but Just DOW he and everyone associated with him aro playing possum. Luis Flr-po. Flr-po. who promised to return to this country from Buenos Aires about this time has not shown up and so far , n.s anyone known he has concentrated I upon the job of payling the public Idol In the Argentine Carpentler ls reported by Americans Ameri-cans who have seen him In the course of his present European tour, to b looking fine. ITc has gained in weight and recovered the spirits he lost when I Slkl battered him into submission a month ago. He la confident ho can repeat his knockout victory' over Beckett Bec-kett and Joe, who Is riding a high horse ih"-se days believes he can sure-1 sure-1 )y repny the Frenchman for putting him to sleep the alst time they met. Joe has a fine chance to make some big money by stowing Carpen-tler Carpen-tler away. It might not be such a great feat, but It wnuld have advertising adver-tising value that would make Beckett a big atfrictlnn either in Europe or the United States |