San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
Ry A. G. GARDINER.

Copyright by The San Antonio Light;
London, Get. 6.-Public interest is
divided this weekend between the
mystery which still invests the subject
of Prime Minister Baldwin's visit to
Premier Poincarc in Paris and the
result of Georges Carpenters brief
meeting with Joe Beckett in London.
The latter fiasco has created an
enormous amount of feeling.
People who paid or 10 pounds to
witness a spectacle lasting less than
ten seconds, naturally feel aggrieved'
and the general public resents the
humiliation which such grotesque
exhibition inflicts upon the country.
England has lost her old position
in the world of sport OF late years.
and in no direction has the decline
been so married as in boxing.
The demand now is being widely
made that the cult of the bullet head
cd bruise- with the strength OF an OK,
and the brain of rabbit, should cease
to be encouraged.
1t is now fully realized that men
of the quality of Jack Dempsey ana
Georges Carpenter win their battles
NOT by Drawn. but by brain, and II
the prestige of British boxing is to be
restored it can only be by men OF the
same intellectual calibre.
The revival of Carpenters reputa-
ton lends interest to his declaration
that he homes to meet Dempsey again.
1t would be profitable venture
but IL would have about ms much real
ity as the Carpentier-Beckett affair,
which has given heavy setback to
these sham fights for big purses in
which an obviously inferior man goes
into the ring to take foreordaineo
l,nockout and pockets thousands OF
pounds for being felled like an OK.
Turn to State Affairs.
Turning to more serious. matters
the public wants to know whethei
Premier Baldwin has been knocked
ont ms completely by NJ. Poincare as
Beckett was by Carpenter.
The newspapers continue to discuss
the extraordinary communique apro'
nos the acknowledgements meeting
which seemed to suggest that England
lad retired from the policy laid down
| in the Curzon note and had surren
dercd to France. :.
MIR. Baldwin has spoken twice II
public since the issuance OF the com
munique, but his utterances throw nc
light on the mystery.
| He is pursuing the policy OF Brei
! Fox-lay low and say muffin.
| Opin;on in informed circles is tina,
nothing has been changed and thai
the communique was intended for tn
consumption of Premier Mussolini Of
italy. who had assumed that the
breach between. France and England
was so final that he could proceed
safely to turn it to his own advan
But whatever the explanation. tn
effect has been to exhibit England a
n mere spectator at the stage OF Eu
Events on that stage now hav'
reached climax.
Disruption of Germany is the nat
ural consequence of the Poincar
policy and no one in political circle
now expects that disruption to b
avoided.
Apparently NJ. Poincare is begin
ming TO prepare for the discovery b.
the French people that the treasur.
is empty.
His policy has succeeded.
Must Produce Goods.
Now he must produce the good
or suffer the penalty. =,
The French elections are approach
ing and the wave of disappointment
at the financial results of his polio
may easily throw him into the gutter
My own impression Of the Baldwi
mystery is that Mr.. Baldwin is mari
ing time in hope that the bankruptc