Evening star., 1923-10-07
RING FATE
SAME AS POLITICAL
Fear: Felt Poincare Has
!, Scored Same Sort Of Vic
!. tory as Carpenter.
BY A. G. GARDINER.

BY Gable to The Star.
LONDON; October 6.-Public In
tersst Is divided this week end be-
tween the mystery which still Ia
vests the subject of Prime Minister
Baldwin's visit to Premier Poincare
in PARIS and the result OF Georges
Carpenters brief meeting with Joe
Beckett in London -
The latter hasco has. created an
enormous amount of feeling. People
who paid f5 or f10 to witness a
spectacle lasting less than ten sec
onds naturally feel agrieved. and the
general public resents the hplniifa-
tion which such a grotesques exhihi,
tioii infiicts on the country: Ensiang
has lost her old position in the worid
of sport of late years, and In no
sirertion has the decline been SO
mark ed as in boxing. The demand
now ia being widely made that the
cult. of the bullet-headed bruiser.
with the strength of an OK and the
brain of q rabbit, should cease 70
be encouraged >
|. Need Brain Fighters.
|. II is now. fully realized that men men
Seorees q re CARPENTER win their battles
NOT hv brawn. but by brain, and If
the prestige Of British boxing is 70
be restored It can only be by men OF
the same intellectual ,caliber.
tatfon lends interest to his declara-
ton that. he hopes to meet Dempsey
again. It would be a profitable ven
ture. but it. would ,ha have carnent,s About as
RaSn BesSkst. rsa afrair, which has given a
heayy setback to these sham fights
for big purses In which an obviously
inferior man gocs into the ring 70
take foreordained knockout ana
pockets thousands OF pounds for
being felled like an OK.
Turning to moro serious matters.
the uublfo wants to know whether
Premier Baldwin has been knocked
out by, M. Poincare as enectiveiy ma as
newsuapers continue to discuss the
extraordinary communiQue --apropos
the Baldwin-Poincare meeting which
seemed, to suggest that England mao
retired from the policy laid down In
the Curzon note, and had SURRENDER
oMr. Baldwin has spoken twice IN
uublic since the issuance of the COM
munique, but his utterances. throw
no light on the mystery He. Is pur-
ssM snipg ana shs say pollsXf nSfD ot srer foA-'AS
FFAmc0 1OT MUh8OlknAs
Opinion in informed circles Is that
nothing has been changed and that
the .communique was. intended for
the consumption of Premier Mus
solini OF italy. who had assumed tnat
the breach between France and Eng
Hand was SO final that he could pro-
ceed' safely to turn Y to his own ad-
PLANTATION. the effect has been to ex-
.hibit' England as a mere spectator
at the stage Of Europe.
/. Events. on that stage have now
reached a climax. Disruption of Ger
many. is the natural c6nseqIehce of
the Poincare policy, and no one In
politicar circles NOW expects that
disruption to be avoided. =.
| Apparently NJ. Poincare is pegin-
ming to- prepare for the discovery by
tho French people that tfs treasury
| is empty His policy has sueceeded.
| Now he must ptodrce she toods or
tons are appfoaehing ana the wave
| of disappointment at the financial re-
fsultssoY his policy. may easily throw
him into the gutter, Is
My own :impression of the sgaidwin
tmystery Is that MIR. Baldwin Is mark
/ ing timer in hope that the bs.fkruptcy
| of the Poincare policy will produce
| q reaction in France. Isiherai op!n-
ion here. however,. is @ros;iffg. angry
at seeing the country .draggad at
the heels Of M. Poincare. Tie as
sumption that surrender. to the hys:
terta OF France is the only Dpssibil-
ESBefiy fspuaiatsd and ihe sas.nand
!! that a Bfitlsh policy sa6aid bs pro-
ssss ssa,nsif isssahsIsss fasssh On s1sfs
The catastrophe in Germany rs