Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1921, Page 15

¥ SPORTS.’ THE .EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1921 SPORTS. i5 Dempsey Finishes Ha CHAMPION TO DO LIGHT BOXING NEXT TWO DAYS NTIC CITY, afternoon to defend his title urope. work with the glove. Hi: vesterday. The champion is resting today, June 27.—Hard work is over for Jack Demp- sey until he enters the ring at Doyle's thirty acres next Saturday against Georges Carpentier, champion _having finished his heavy s final boxing tomorrow and Wednes- day will be to speed him up and sharpen his judgment of distance. sfied with hi smilex tell of the to the title he manager of the cha Haye ondition, idence of ler. nd that he ng-off process. Champion Is Irritable. beginni and irrits £ into pe andlers t four days. tisk has been to keep him from over- .1 never felt more con- fident of a victory than I do now. Demp- sy prepared to box the twelve rounds | p! but I hope it wo Dempse bers of the champion's camp are| to tell what was happening. and se | hard and had been Jack Kearns, npion, ané Teddy iner, believe that Demp- = power and speed are at the will pick up the final three days of the ow signs v, which in- that he is ect fighting lonz strain of training arcntly is getting on his nerves, and are planning to humor him noted nurse him along as carefully as pos- as| did not have large legs. in there orrow and Kearns said. “He ondition. Our harde: 't be nec- Jack feels the same way about He said, however, that Carpentier was working let loose. His sparring session was on the afternoon’s program, and it was announced that the heavyweights who should have ar- rived late last week were on the job at Keen-eyed experts who have been sizing up the challenger's physical characteristics vary in their opinion of whether Georges' heavy underpinning will stand him well or prove a handi- cap in the battle with Dempsey next Saturday. “For a man weighing not more than 172 pounds heavy calves are somewhat rare and seldom have been on successful heavyweights. Excepting one or two champions, one of whom was Jim Jeffries, it will be recalled that most all of them A size-up of the present champion shows his calves to be much smaller than those rpentier. ugilism for years always have con- tended that = heavy calves were a handicap to their argument that such a leg slows worked more impressively | their footwork. Others, however, sterday. when he boxed seven rounds, | argue that his heavy underpinning hun he did on Saturd when some of | Will aid him to hold his feet in a stless, wpion weighed 194 pound: perts thought he worked a trifle be- bombardment of Dempsey's s. Carpentier Is Determined. v‘i ;lrmr{ l_l‘n-‘x_"xn:_:;*;lvr' L;“"vl. Carpentier, when he talks of the o ek Mecording to | AENt. ETits his teeth and clenches his This will give him a weight | fists and remarks “He shall not beat dvantage of about twenty pounds. me. Something tells me that I can defeat him and I shall do it. His THINGS HUM BEHIND BARN |naracst blows will not find me and AS CHALLENGER PRIMES | thos that he lands I know I can stand.” MANIL . N. Y. June 27—| The challenger attaches a great Training at the camp of Georges Car- pentier took on a mysterious aspect m this mornin; Soon after orges came in from the woods the slice guards were thrown about the camp and things bezan to hum behind the barn. Manager Descamps, as usual, refused deal of sentiment to the hundreds of letters he receives daily from war veterans and other Americans in all walks of life. “They want me to win" he said. “They expect me to emerge from the ring champion, and I will not disap- point them if every bone in my body is broken.” Frenchman Is Ideal Athlete; Possesses Marvelous Heart (This is the xecond of a series of six articles by Dr. William Brady, noted rpentier win.) UT back of the old barn of a village of Manhasset, Long ician, who has examined both fighters. Iynix of the rivals and will tell why he would net be surprised to see He will give a complete physical fine old farmstead on the edge of the Island, there is a queer kind of cage having a wooden floor about twenty-four feet square, elevated some four feet above the ground and inclosed with nothing but two ropes. Upon the floor of the Eage there is a padding of loose felt, over which is tightly stretched a canvas carpet. Here on a sunny aiternoon a few authorized writers and maybe a boxer or two gather about 3 o'clock to see the tiger perform. Through the open back door of the old barn one can see numerous styles of punching bags, sand bags and other parapher- nalia of a well equipped gymnasium, some of the equipment, for all its careful selection and care, showing evidence of having been sadly mauled by some powerful animal. The European champion, with his trainer and manager in_attendance, and the cook close at his heels—for « cook atones for his crimes by rving also as one of Georges' irring partners—now slips out of kitchen door and approaches the 1 gymnasium. Is Pleasing Sight. There is a_thrill in_store for one ng_ him for the first time, for, th His body wrapped in a bath- robe and a towel about his neck, _he looks very ordinary and even a little pale as compared with the flushed or florid complexions of the onlook- ers who eat too much and take too little exercise. But when Carpentier drops his robe and stands forth in kymnasium attire, then you get the thrill—that is, if you Know some- thing about the ideal physique. To saze upon such an athlete is good for eves made sore by staring at physical culture freaks. There follows about thirty minutes of bag-punching and sandbag wal- loping. in the course of which some startling effects in the way of light- ning speed and accurate aim stand out, though there is nothing spec- tacular or fancy about the exercise, nothing resembling the musical bag- punching stunts of public performers. After such exertion an ordinary man would be breathmg hard and his heart would be thumpinz along at a rapid rate. Not So with Car- Pentier. On finishing this strenuous work his breathing was but little hereased: ome could scarcely motice any effect of the exertion on hi ocomversation at the moment. His was but a few beats heart v Taster before the cxercise and roturned to a normal rate in little more than a mimute. Has Marvelous Heart, The tiger has = wondertully efiicient Feart, a large heart, of course, and of a1l his muscles that great heart mus- cle of his is the one most likely to win for him the championship of the o . Next he entered the roped-in cage ~ut back of the gymnasium and spar- red a few rounds each with three usty sparring partners, planting some mphatic jabs on the ribs of the cook rspecially, who perhaps had permitted he coffee to boil that morning. (ritics who probably have not seen irpentier in action profess to believe that his legs are toc heavy or too muscnlar, They are muscular legs, :s on an athlete. But as he uses m they are as light and wieldy as he lezs of a cat. He is a tiger with - powerful legs. In the heat of hattle his eves glare menacingly and hewildering nimbleness with ch he jumps around the roped cage ist_be mighty discouraging to any Iversary bent on taming or subdu- m. Let o one worry about the Sizit of the tiger's feet.” We might tter confine our anxiety, if any. to question whether “Carpentier's vical shock _absorber—muscles ich will be described later—are as lapted to protect him from ¥'s jaw punches or uppercuts psey’s shock absorbers are to rrotect him from Carpentier’s telling We will look into that prob- irther along. £ in mind the long, early riorning hike and ramble of six to fon mil ous half hour it the ral minutes of vigorous shadow hoxing, all of which preceded the sparring with three wartners in suecession, 1 expected » European champion would knock f work now and it a day. In- tead he merely poscd for a snapshot or two. . and then without pausing for rest immediately Legan a series of .udditional exerciscs caleulated to in- crease muscle responsiveness and co- ordination popularly reck- t ne.. I have al- ¢ is good train- i for the child's hoart, but I never fore imazined i athiete training for a champlonshin boxing match Rtope skipping is oned g child's pe s realized t would skip the rope for exercise. arpentier skipped rope some 500 rimes while I wa' hed, and that in- Juded some difficilt stunts. him carefully, belleving 1c-skipping. on top of what 1 done. would surely ‘s heart. But no. It tiger T examined, na ith o' feet ind. apparently, a tiger's \rt. for the heartbeat had increased v 30 per cent over the resting p A marvelously efficient heart \leveloped by thoroughly sci- Lining. n\' t " " prolonged and intricate rope- all richt. 1 have neyer seen beuerlpey was Bill Brennan. a tiger's eve, i skipping exercise proved but a pre |liminary to a series of beautifully e | ecuted eetting-up and floor exercises, resembling those used in the Arm. As Carpentier does these exercises h | breathing is correctly timed, so that i he inspires with movements extending or straightening out the body and expires with movements flexing or bending the body. He executes every movement with the utmost thorough- ness and precision, accomplishing several with ease that would be very hese experts who have followed ! heavyweights. It is| difficult if not impossible for mayy of us, even though we are acustoméd to similar exercises daily. _For instance, he will lie on his back. lift both legs free from the floor and swing them far around to the right, always not more than a foot from the floor, then straight up and across to the corresponding position on the left and around to starting position many times, and reverse. Try this once and see what a mess you will make of it. Or. again, he rolis ub forward from his prone position, but on one foot only, and carries the other foot under him 'and extends the leg straight in front, then back to the prone again, without once touching the free foot to the floor. This exercise is evidently for poise and balance. There is noth- ing whatever the matter with Georges Carpentier’s legs. The training of the French cham- pion and the whole environment of Lis camp, in my judgment; clésely ap- proximate the ideal, and as for the physical condition of the man him- folr, saving those shock absorbera for urther discussion, I doubt wi he can be beaten. Rether (Copyright, 1921.) BRENNAN EXTENDS JACK Champion Did Not Look Very Impressive in His Last Title Tilt With Bill. (This is the twenty-first and last of a meries of sketches of previous s for the heavy-welght champlon- ship of tke world.) The only boxer that ever got a real good day's work out of Jack Demp- Usually Jack knocks an opponent out in the first two or three rounds and collects his day's wages. But somehow or other Bill is one of those fellows who can’t get to sleep right away. Once it took six rounds for Dempsey to quiet his nerves and’on another occasion Bill remained awake twice that long. This second occasion was last De- ocember at Madison Square Garden. Brennan was sure feeling fine that night. He acted as though he had just taken a shower under the fountain of youth and instead of sticking around wondering which Way to dodge next, he stepped up and showed the champion all his stuff. Some of it didn’t seem to sit very well with the king of fighters. Early in the bout Brennan handed him a wallop that for a moment seemed to daze the head that wore the crown. A Jittle later on his glove slashed Dempsey’s mouth, and after a_while other corpuscles began to take the air in the vicinity of the champion’s ear. The exfperts said Brennan carried the fight to Dempsey for ten rounds. Some skeptics believed the champion tarried that long to give the movie fons a treat. Other people whispered that the real low down on the thing was that Dempsey had not trained hard for the scrap and was not’in good condition. The fact remained that none of his caveman punches were in evidence during the early part of the fight. He assembled one of those wallops in his left arm during the twelfth round and let it loose upon Brennan, squarely amidship. The big chal- lengers body assumed the posture of & half-opened pocketknife, his head dropping almost to his knees. Fight- ing hard against the approaching end. he spread out his legs and re- mained up. While swaying in this position Brennan received a sound ?‘ma.sh on the jaw and fe)l to the oor. RINGSIDE TICKET Dempsey-Carpentier Fight, $100 Phone Main 4161 Georges, Meet Mr. Dempsey. WILLARD ..... K.0. 3 Rps FULTON ..... KO, | rp. MORRIS .... K.0. | RD. SMITH ... 0. 2RDS ¢ LEVINSKY ... [G.0. 3RDs MISKE .....[<.0. 3RDS FLYNN «...IC.O. [ RD. Re —— tuantic ar ONLY 19,000 SAW JACK (This ix the seventh of a dally series of sketches of ring battles of Joek | m Dempsey orges Carpentler.) h J ACK DEMPSEY and Jess Willard met for the world heavywei hot. Thermometers at the ringside registered as high as 130 degrees. ' ® The big arena, constructed to seat 75,000 persons, contained only a few) o hundred more than 19,000. The gate receipts, however, insured the financial success of the project. section that sent Wells down and There was a marked contrast in the | ment that Willard had been knocked nt It ;\'45 a le show demeanor of boxers a: ey cn-{Out. Dempsey even started to leave [ pluck and recuy power on the tered the :,,,';e e w?n;"'.f,f the | the ring, believing that he was the|part of the Frenchman, still in his champion, was almost arrogantly con. | VIClor. ~There has been doubt as to | teens. fident. He approached the ring with | whether he actually got out of the a sure stride, climbed through the | Fing. i Popen and pazed caimly. out o the | Willard. a gory, bloody mass, voun | AT BOUT FOR TURNER. crowd with the suggestion of a con- | o e e e R - :\nd:u"llh smile playing around his | (FEG 0 O wer the bell for the| While receiving returns of tre manner was more serious, | fourth round. and Demps was de- | Demy rpentier world heavy Dempsey A scowl, which visitors at his Atlan tic City training camp have seen this summer while he h;dls }b‘oxed. was in- e sified as he heard the instructions éEchfedree Ollie Pecord: The casual |CARPENTIER BECOMES observer wou have sai e w doubtful of his ability to defeat this | HEAVYWEIGHT IN 1913 huge opponent. ' With the bell for the opening round, ante a heavyweisht doubt as fiele him mid- France clared the winner by a knockout in! w three. vanished. He rushed Willard, plying 3 arcel Moreau for the him with rights and lefts, first to the ahampionship of jaw, then to the body. After 45 seconds of action, a right to the body and a left to the jaw dropped Willard to the canv: For the remainder of the round, the ¢ pion displayed courage seldom equ: ed in the squared circle. Seven times during the round Willard was either knocked down or sent helpless to the ropes. He was prone when the gong sounded for the close of the round. In the clamor, the gong was not heard, and it was believed for a mo probably of his carcer. Carpentier, through his superb bo ng skill, gave Morenu a territic b ing in eight rounds, forcing his op- ponent to quit, in which that his glove his hand Carpent the mo. declared | i split and | v to meet \ Long-Lasting I;(;Wer Long-Lasting Dollars The eager whir of the motor the moment your foot touches the starting pedal. Lights instantly bright at the turn of a switch. 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G - ‘Washisgton, D, C. | | Wells. The PUT K. O. SIGN ON JESS 3 | tators were | through the second, felt out his man in the championship at Toledo, Ohio, July 4, 1919. The day was blistering | stomach was his opponent’s vulnera- | the Greek who gave tre Dis s —By Ripley. 22, bout was staged in knocked out Wells in round. The Frenchman first three minutes the down hent June el xperienced in pentier for a in the first round. Spec- mazed when the French- 1an regained his feet. e weathered the storm. Hanging on, He stalled third and found ~that the le_spot. i In the foyrth, after about a minute £ action, Carpentier feinted for the i Wells lifted his guard and pentier shot a right to the mid- ight ship battle Saturday ater fight fans will grappling match Joe Turner. the will be onposed b Me: southern opoulos, rict man ach a gruelling scrap last winter. hey will go to the mat for a sub- antial pu Phone F. 6764. EHTIDIEB Howard A. French & Co. 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Billy Miske, who was knocked out by Dempsey in three rounds tember, will meet Jack Renault, a Dempsey Sparring partne: T rd Work for Fight : Mysterious Heavies Reach Carpentier’s Camp Goes to Seek Injunction to Prevent Big Battle ATLANTIC C] 27 —Clinton WLLNOTSTOPFEAT ISSERTS Y EDHAR Carpentier-Demprey a waste of time. “Of courne, | don't know what Mr. Howard may have up hix sleey wnid the governor. “Thix exhibi; 1 can say, will be conducted trict according to law, 1 am wure of tha ney-Carpentier fight at Jersey fight would be ilx to ob- chancery he would eme court at Of this amount Jack Dempsey. junction to prevent the Demp- ’ and | lose, Jones, heavyw The other bouts ar. ney and Sold also will meet. 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