Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 25

: o~ seests. = TH SvENiNG STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JUNE oo srosts » 'Carpentier’s Pal Has Respect for Dempsey’s Prowess, After Watching Champion Work MALLET, THOUGH, THINKS CHALLENGER WILL WIN 'ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, June 23—Georges Carpentier will be given a today by Pierre Mallett, clos #khampion, who watched Dempsey go bag punching and boxing yesterday a Mali=tt, who has been a friend of C has been with hif in all of his imp Dempsey’s cordition and left-hand h attempt to conceal his identity or the object of his visit, and had nothing but praise for the heavyweight champion. “He appears to be in wonderful con- dition.” Mallett said, “and a magnifi- @ent specimen of a man.” Does Not Worry Jack. ! Dampsey was not told of the pres- ence of the visitor in camp until to- | day, when he expressed disappoint- ment that he did not meet him. *“I am glad he was there,” the champion said. “Any member of Carpentier's camp is always welcome. 1f 1 had #een him 1 would have invited him to stay for dinner with me. We haven't anything to conceal here. Even Car- pentier and his manager would be welcome, 1 am glad Carpentier thinks ) -hlsu gbing to win. 1 want a real Mallett, who speaks English per- fectly, never took his eyes off Demp- | sey while the title holder pounded the heavy swinging bag and boxed four lively rounds with Joe Benjamin, & lightweight, and Babe Herman, a teatherweight. He timed Dempsey punched the light bag puffed on a cigarett the' fighter nd nervously the champion lef! SPORTS. close-up account of Jack Dempsey's fighting gtyle and condition. Light or Dark. : : ; : . e friend and adviser of the French through a forty-minute workout of iternoon. rpentier for ten years, and who ortant contests, was impressed with itting. The French visitar made no FRENCHMAN COVERS UP Hides Skill in Listless Public ‘Workouts, But Has Vicious Bouts in Private. MANHASSET, N. Y. June 23.— Georges Carpentier is hiding his real fighting _ability behind a series of listiess public workouts. For some reason which his manager will not explain, the aspirant to the world heavyweight title is entertaining his audiences with smiles, but working viciously in private. Carpentier has arrived at a point in. his training where he is a veritable flash of speed and an atlas of strength. o During his morning road workouts, when only his trainer and sparring partuers are in sight. he goes through @ series of strength developing stunts that would vbut a circus strong man 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 162V drove vicious rights s against |y, gy, E n s agalost shame.. He does: such things as ending it flying back cutting down trees, lifting heavy ‘work against his two | boulders and tossing his sparring work against his I1Wo | partners about as though they were 1ts was fast and his hit- base balls. The ch llengev_- is careful, however, :‘lvt;‘lfl‘los!lhow his speed or strength ] ) rangers are about. The mys- splendid, a superb athlete inltery workont with the three anidon. but he any di no at- into his tempt to put wonderful condition,” was Mallett’s itified pugilists yest, somment after the pugilist finished | was a Fea| Interestine. apnir, orming Boxing. his sunburncd body gleaming |ing to information emanating. from ‘with perspiration. Sure Georges Will Win. 4 “Do you think Crpentier wigl win?" ertainly,” re- always enters . You know strong boxers before: nderestimated Demp ring for him| the camp today. Georges, it was sai was Told o work hard. and as s pe: sult his opponents were lambasted un- mercitully | is trainers, it was said. were so | much pleased ‘with his showing that | they may repead this sort of training | on favorable mornings. Charles Ledoux. the he has met big We have not French ban- sey. Carpentier is bre tamweight champion, who arrived at | well laid lines the camp yesterday, is considered a valuable addition to Carpentier's | manager of Dempsey, from New York.! corps of sparring partners . the ban » situation was cleared up et . to the watistaction of the champion's | iy Wl e chilieaco Denis Inde: camp. Kearns said he was pleased| o : . AP prehnae e Jeannette was on hand fo with the selection of Harry Ertle.|sparring. session, ana. it mas hn- city marshal of Jersey City. as theinounced t that some new ugilistic third man In the ring. ! faces probably would be seen in the “I could have had my choice of any ! ew Jerscy referee’ Kearns said,| Tmiis ring. “and Ertle was picked because I think urnee, as a result of in- a4 . . juries _reccived in his I i he is the most capable. His integrity | 3y, . s bout with is bevond dispute. I have the as- | pein¢ft Monday night will not be! v able to work again with C surance of Gov. Edwards for that. I| pes £ arpentier « > the Dempsey fight. I suggested Bob Edgren and Jimmy | SSfoTe pey. Jsht. - ltalian Daugherty of Philadelphia. becanss | doc, Gans. the or "parcing pastner 1 had promised to put up a fight for | yo0,S8TEreC G N Brookiynton them. The New Jersey commission, il appear yestérday. however, wanted Ertlc and after cer- tain situations were explained to me § accepted him.” WLLARD WHPS MORAN Jess Scores Victory During Off- Season for Circuses and Picks Up Paltry $47,500. (This is the cighteenth of a dally meries of thumb: sketches of pre- vious fightx for the heavywelght championship of the wo After Jess Willard won the heavy- weight championship of the world he became a circus performer. In an off-season for circuses in 1916 he fought ten rounds with Frank Mo- ran at Madison Square Garden and wom a popular decision. Moran, fol- lowing his defeat by Jjohnson had triumphed over Jim Coffey, another aspirant for the championship, and was considered eligible for a erack at the title holder. He was no match giant, who outweighed him almost 4pixty’ pounds. Willard allowed the challenger to do the leading, but Moran could not inject sufficient pu- nitive power in his blows even to Jeave a scratch upon his big oppo. | Promoter Tex Rickard visited the big nent. ) 3 Jersey City arena yesterday. Car- In a manner of speaking, Willard | pentier said the place was wonder- whipped Moran with one hand. and in 2 a literal manner. too. The forefinger | ful. Both Frenchmen expressed them- of his right hand was broken in thé | selves as satistied with Harry Ertle third round in a collision with Mo-|as referee. Gov. Edwards and the ran's elbow and after that only the|members of the New Jersey boxing left fist was of much use to him. sion met the party. With that alone he ceuld not knock | Rickard w formed by ‘the con- out his oppenent, so the last round | tractors that the arena would seat ended just as Pollyanna would have|91613. Present receipts, Rickard , wished. No one had been hurt and|gajd, total $850,000, while a full seat- ¢ both men were a great deal wealth-|ing capacity would assure a gate of ier_than before they met. _ | $1.600,000. 3 Willard salted away the $47.500| " All the ringside seats have been whigh ¢ame to him from the purse | reported sold, although there are still and went back to the circus unwor-|g large number ,of the $10 to $40 ried.by what the future held in Store.| scats to be disposed of. The $5.50 seats will not be placed on sale un LEDOUX PICKS GEORGES. | Stxotthe Jane Va Leonard to Fight Coogan. DENVER. Col, June 23.—Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing cham- pionship. and Mel Coogan of New Jer- sey. have been matched for a ten- | round bout here July 8. Leonard meets Sailor Freedman in Benton Har- bor the afternoon of July 4. Gibbons Soon Eps Meehan, CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 23.—Tom my Gibbons, S§t. Pdul light-heavy welght, scored a technical knotkout over Willie Meehan of San Francisco in the first of a scheduled twelve- round bout last night. Referee Hinck- el stopped the fight after Meehan had been knocked down three times. It was Gibbons' twelfth knockout. B — ARENA TO SEAT 91613 Possible Gate of $1,600,000 in Big Fight——x:ceipts Already Have Reached $850,000. NEW YORK, June 23.—Georges Carpentier, Manager Descamps and consecutive for the Kansan French Bantam Declares Brain ‘Will Decide Big Bout. NEW YORK, June 22— eorges[ Carpentier h more than lwevpni chance of carrying away the feavy-y welght boxing title, in the onlnion‘ i Close Daily at 6 P. M. Saturday at 8 P. M. of the vanguard of European sport- ‘ing writers, who arrived today aboard the new French liner Paris on_her maiden trip from Havre. Charles Ledoux, bantamweight champion of France, predicted Car- pentier would knock Dempsey .out in six rounds. “I have seen both men in action, he said, “apd base my opinion on personal observation. For the first time in his career Dempsey will be called upon to fight a brain. Car- pentier's brain, coupled with his strength _and precision in hitting, wiil win Platt Leads Golfers. PHILADELPHIA, June 23.—J. Wood Platt, a member of the United States golf team that recently invaded Eng- land, celebrated his return yesterday by winning the medal in the qualifying round of the tournament for the Phila- delphia district championship. His card for the thirty-six holes b 152. covered the second round ‘in 72, stroke® under par. For men and young then ‘who want to dress fashion- ably, yet comfortably—a Blue Serge ;uit will prove just the thing.” Our special price of- fers a wonderful value. Mertz & Mertz Co. (Incorporated) deminate among political reform- ers and agitators by the ratio of threr to one; among sailors, two to one; scientixtx, two to one, and mmong ~oldiers, lawyers i alty the light dispeix the di { On the other hand, actors, e plorerx, Inborers, minixters, atates- men, literary men and think ably of dark comprexi nctors are the durkest of & matter of fact, no really xon hax ever rixen 1o high dr eminence, Strange, men who roam the earth—wander- erx. ‘The man who travels by wa- ter In more often fair—as seamen— while he who travels by land Is Listen to the c moun xclentixts who have cial and exhaustive study of the ch do you likef The blond ade xpe- Carpentier or the brunette Demp- neyt The mecting between Dempxey Carpentier will be a test of it will be a struggie be- dark-eyed, black- d bronzed-skinned type of These two men, who meet for the physical wupremacy of the world on July 2, are the exact opposite of ench other. They are of a different eountry, race, language and ideas. ‘ et. r. John Beddo rologints, and Have fameus xexol both agree that They are as different as night and day. quently lead Havelock Ellix, who spent years in the portrait galleri examining the features of a famous people of the last ten cen- turies, xnys: Dempsey Makes T riumphant Boxing Trip Across Country “It in clear that an excexs of fair- ners prevails among the men of most frequently dnrk—as are ex- restless and ambitious tempera- plorers. And—mont important of all—EH| findx the hlonds mowt warlike pugnaciouv—and hungrier for money. The brunette is more peaceful and resigned. Looks bad for Dempsey, doesn't it ment, the sunguine, energetic men, the men who eaxily dominate their fellows and who met on in life. “But it insignificant that the dark most_often found among wes—artisans and x0 among the men religlon, whoxe minion in life i n ek weries of dnily sketches of ring battles of d Georges Carpentier.) WHEN Dempsey, from training and boxing with men who knew (This is the fourth of D every twist and turn in the game, had absorbed considerable experience, Kearns adjudged him ready for another invasion of | the east, this time under more expert supervision. The trip was a triumph from the start; Dempsey literally fought his way across the continent. Boxing at least once, sometimes marke@ up against Carpentier in 1911 twice a week In cities of varying size,| Despite his losing to the Dixle Ki h pe of to practice and preach rexizmat to a Higher Will.. 1t ix alxo xizml cant that the highly intellizent tend to darknews, “Men of action are fair, men of he hung up a great r&cord. “Fireman” year, bringing the British welter. . he 1 o S S i5an, BITl Brennan, Arthur Pel- | welght title (o Carpentier, had beon | omejex it A et key.” Fred Fulton, Porky Flynn and|the most successful experienced by| poid, warlike. energetic, restless Battling Levinsky were among the|Georges and he was even more Suc-| g4 demineering, the dark-skinned victims. The only reverse decision |cessful in 1912, when he encountered, | pegple are mned, religious, imi- for the firt time, middlewelghts of the first class, Willard Not to Attend. regjstered, against him during the year was a fofr-round bout on the coast, in which Willy Meehan beat Dempsey on” points. ~ The second battie with “Fireman" Jim Fiynn was one of the ehrly bouts of the trip. It was staged in a west- ern town and Dempsey knocked out Fiynn in the first round, thus aveng- ing the earlier one-round defeat at the hands of the veteran. An anecdote concerning that battle shows the copfidence which Kearns already had acquired in his new charge. Flynn's manager, believing that Dempsey again would be an easy victim. offered to wager Kearns an amount on the result. Kearns was willing, to wager not only on the re- sult but bet_that Dempsey would win tative, yet highly ingelligent.” ties of these scientists xhow ond hair and blue eves pre- 2 that bl willard, pion, told friends here today that he was too busy to be in Jersey City, N. J.. on July 2 to witness the cham- pionship bout between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. Rickard Summons Corri. By the Associated Pre: . SOUTHAMPTON. June 23.—Eugene Corri, English boxing referee, hat sailed for New York aboard the steamer Adriatic. He said he had been summoned to the United States by Tex Rickard Arrest Bogus Ticket Men. NEW YORK, Jure 22—Eight men, suspected of flooding the _country with bogus tickets for the Dempsey- Carpentier fight, have been arrested here, charged with forgery. coun- terfeiting and grand larceny. 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