Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1921, Page 22

522 SP ORTS,’ THE EVEN SCHEDULED TO LAY OFF, HE TAKES A WORK-OUT Surpr es Handlers by Going Through Long Grind, Probably to End Rumors That He Was About to Go Stale. NTIC CITY, N. June 28—Jack Dempsey today is within TLA ; A forty-eight hqurs from the end of his training grind. The cham- scheduled ot do his Aiter the secret wol pion and tomdrrow. last boxing in public this afternoon rkout with the heavyweights yester- day Dempsey probably will box with the lighter men in camp in-the two final sessions with the gloves. The champion and his handlers the secret workout late yesterday af! had no explanation to offer today for trenoon, when he toiled for minutes at top speed. with no spsctators watching him. Dempsey worked out in the stuffy old hangar a quarter of a mile back of his camp, after announcement was made that he wo simply felt he wanted to work and he decided to do it on a minute’s notice.” said Teddy Hayes, trainer of the champion, Perhaps the reason the titleholder decided to work in sd@ret was to sat- isfy himeelf tiat he ‘had not gone stale or slowed up in his boxing or footwork. Some noted trainers and athletes have been rather strong in their critic that _they believed | Dempsey wa 1y drawn. But| the champ terday s i enich 16 ot e tioat the Ton of hts form and in no danger of going stale. Dempsey had not finished driving | powerful rights and lefts into the uld take a day off. heavy felt stuffed bag before he hro‘l_in e started his practice with three rounds unching the light bag and then he out ‘into profuse perspiration. waded into the heavy swinging target. | He worked for nearly an hour, intervals of only thirty tween three-minute rounds. O'Hara, who boxed the first |he sat down and rested for a few mmules before going to the shower | His face was puffed and his ribs wer: re from the punching Jack gavej ck hr.n sparring mate desired. of his blows to the body forced Wil [liams to grunt with pain and retrea GEORGES’ CHANCES GOOD; JACK IS A POOR BREATHERi (This is the third of a series of ix articles by Dr; William Brady, noted | physician, who has examined both fighters. He will give a complete physical znnlynln of the rivals and will tell why he would not be surprined to see rpentier win.) l an introduction by Down dollar bill. Jack rambles about the who cares to talk with him. and beh Yecess time. That is, at recess time. termined manner.’ If Carpentier’s pl is a lion. In the res g state, befo N order to approach within speaking distance of Carpentier up at Man- hasset it is necessaPy to produce unassailable credentials and secure ome authorized person connected with his camp Atlantic City all you need as a card of introduction is a genuil e place shaking hands with any one aving very much like a small boy at When he works he works in a de- que and movements suggest the tiger, Dempsey re bcgmnmg exercises, Jack's hands feel cool to the touch, whereas Georges’ feel warm; after an hour’s ex- ercise and a rubdown. Jack’s hands feel warm to the touch, and Georges’ cool. All I make of this The Atlantic City lion has a big- ger. thicker. heavier and perhaps a slightly more muscular, chest d neck than the Manhasset tiger. has a greater breathing capacit it is questionable whether he has better wind than his rival. The bar- rel-shaped chest does not necessarily imply great tal capacity or good wind. In fact. an athlete’s wind or ability to keep his struggling muscles supplied with sufficient oxygen de- pends more upon his heart muscle than upon his lungs. As I have al-| ready said, while the American cham- the more powerful lungs, | pean champion’s heart mus- | cle is the better developed and more eficient. Even at that. it does not necessarily follow that Carpentier's circulation is better adapted for the contest of July 2 than Dempsey's. for another and even more vital tor here. namely. the comparative ncy of the two Matched. The winner of this battle is more than likely to be the man whose ad- renal glands function thé better. The contestants are pretty well matched in ordinary respects, or where there are differences of equipment the ad- vantages of the one man just counter- balances the advantage of the other. Dempsey’s size is offset by Carpen- tier's speed: the American champion’s heavier neck is offset by his_oppo- nent's stronger legs: the French champion's bewildering _agility in dodging about the ring and ducking under wicked swings is offset by the westerner's punching power. Jack's daily exercife began with .shadow boxing about the ring. This he did with considerable yim and spirit. He kept dancing about pretty actively all the while, some ten min- 3 a difference in temperament, Jack being the more phlegmatic. Georges the more sanguine. termines an athlete’s wind, and the French tiger has the advantage here over the American lion. art above strength and brute force. June 6), force over science and art. | think differently, and, |to give the American hope a very serious time of it July retain his status as champion. ciency. jwell as brute force. (Copyright, 1921.) IEES GERGES' ONLY HOPE IN SPEEDY K. 0. By the Associated Press. Carpentier, accomplishing that feat in sx rounds n 1909, commenting on Georges' forthcoming bout with Jack Dempsey. said: *Car- pentier must win in the first or second rounds, or else he is doomed to de- feat. - The French people are solidly behind Carpentier, but the sporting papers for several weeks have been voicing a utes, perhaps, as he did this panto- mime boxing, but his comparatively skimpy legs and feet are dead as compared with those of Carpenter. There were a few rounds of rather indifferent sparring with some husky looking. but very careful, sparring partners, one of whom managed, how- . to brush a giove across Jack's prominent superciliary ridge and re- open a cut over his eve, which bled freely. There was no rope jumping, but the champion did go through with some floor exercises in a rather perfunctory manner. He gave the impression of clumsiness. _ Bither he is muscle bound and stiff in the lower part of his body. or else his performances are purely perform#nces for a dollar per. Dempsey Breathing Inferfor. His breathing is certainly inferior to Carpentier's. That big barrel chest of his may be less efficient function ally than an ordinary flattened chest is. Many asthmatics and persons with emphesema and chronic _bronchitis have barrel chests. look like power- ful creaturgs. but in reality are weak. Jack breathes hard. which is all right with hard effort, but he breathes with some difficulty—apparently he does not know how to breathe as well as Carpentier does. Not knowing how to breathe may account for Dehpsey’s more labored breathing after muscular exertion. How much of a handicap this may prove for him in a twelve-round con- test, each round three minutes in du- ration, will depend on how much of a chase the tiger leads him about the cage. One not accustomed to such exercise can scarcely realize how a brisk game of tag can make & man blow even when the chase stricted to a playground no larger than a sitting room. Jack should have taken some lessons from a sing- ing master or some one who could teach him the art of breathing. But as 1 said before, it is chiefly the efMciency of the heart muscle that de- SUITS Reduced! Ladies’ All-wool California Saits, all colors; $5'98 $7.50 to $10 values $3.98 Men's All-wool warnng against what ti have con- sidered overconfidence. 'ench sports- men frankly admit that few of them know Dempsey, while Americans have a better chance to appraise Carpentier. FANS THRONG NEW .YORK. NEW YORK, June 28.—The Demp-~ gey-Carpentier bout has made New York's housing problem even more acute. Already many of the leading hotels have hung out the standing- room-only sign, and it will require a house hunter of rare skill to locate shelter Friday night. Indeed, many visitors from the west are planning to lodge in their Pullmans over on the Jersey flats. fifty-five | with seconds be- two rounds, was so tired at the finish that then battered Williams s consideration than the vet- Several 1 am inclined to rate science and Before 1 saw a professional boxing exhibition (the Kansas-Leonard meet I would have rated brute Now 1 therefore, feel |that the European champion is sure trying to All of his I offer as a rank amateur 8o far as knowledge of professional boxink i concerned. and for what & may be | worth as_the judgment of a mera Student of heaith and physical em. | ormal 1 am assuming, you see, that [ yigyo gt the sport of professional boxing in-la bout at Bentor Harbor. Mich. He {volves tome 1itle scicnce and art. 45 |had” mec” Misie “twice. beforo In no- PARIS, June 28.—Georges Gloria, the only man living who ever knocked out championship STAR, WASHINGTON, T D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1921 SPORTS. N Be Careful, Mr. Dempsey. Although the conxensux of opin- fon opines that on July 2 Dempsey will rush from his corner, whip over a left hook and the fight will Be over—one punch! All ovel Like that! Doy Don't be too sure that Dempsey will win in a round or two—for weveral reasons. Listen. Dempney is no “man-eater.” Not ry time a fighter wins a title he at once ix hailed an the greatest fighter that eve matter of fact, the present of plon has’never fought a_ really xreat fighter in Miske, Willard and Bren- None of these men are ring rd, if you remember. had the tter of the wecond round at To- ledo, after being knocked down neven times in the opemer, and might have even stayed the lmit, anyway, if he had entered the ring in any kind of condition. You munst admit that Jack didn’t ook like any kind of a “super- man” or “man-eater) in his fight with Brennan. HBrennan—just an ordinary second rater—made the champlon look very sick and fool- ish for ten rounds. Dempsey D and guarantees. by Kearns, was out to “get hi dertook did not result in a “killing, however, for Dempsey, the fighter, was a far different person from Demp- however. offgred him revenue. Trou- | ble with draft officials which finally | iresulted in the clearing of his name from the charge of evading military service, also occupied considerable t Dempsey did not enter the ring in a contest as champion until Aecision bouts of ten and six rounds. ‘rhe magch turned out as anticipated, asy victory for Dempsey by 2 knockout in three rounds. The bout. however, drew a “gate” of $134.904 and served to replenish the menl!yoKenrns coffers to the amount GEORGES STOPS WELLS, BECOMING PARIS’ PET The sensational knockout of Wells by Carpentier made the Frenchman more than ever the “pet of Paris.” Everywhere he was greeted as a con- queror with adulation that would have done no good to a man less balanced in judgment. He was the first Frenchman to achieve interna- tional prominence in boxing, which is rot primarily a French sport. Carpentier fought Jeff Smith, the American middle and light heavy- weight. in Paris shortly after the first Wells battle and defeated him in twenty rounds. Wells, in the mean- time, was demanding a return battle and Carpentier readily acquiesced. They met the second time at the ional Sporting Club, in London, ecember 8, 1913. The betting was “even" for England still refused to believe that this slender Frenchman was really a match for Wells. Wells was nervous. His knees shook as he looked across the ring at the cool, smiling Carpentier. Carpentier spent no time “feeling out” his man. Out of his corner like a bullet, he whipped in savage blows to the heart and stomach, centering his fire on the mid-section. Wells, A theatrical tour which the pair un-| in desperation. stuck out his right. sey, the actor. The motion pictures, | hooked a right and a left to the jaw ptember 6. 1920, when he met Billy | Paul light-heavyweight, in | 1f Dempaey eannot fight any bet- ter than he showed againat Bren Carpentier will knmock him re! The fans are fond of recalling arpentier's battles with Papke and Kinus as a couple of reawons why Dempney will have a cinch. 100k place more than eight years ago when Georges was only € boy of eighteen. Papke and Klaus were two tough middieweights at that. Yet the young French boy went eighteen rounds with one and nine- teen with the other, and did mot quit in either content. Do you think for a moment that Dempney could have licked these two tough birds when he an eighteen years old? And wh: ahout Dempsey'n _battles wi Willie Meehan, the Frisco echan, n ring clown and a joke fighter, gave Dempaey two beat- ingw a little less than three yearn o! You don't hear much about these battles. Dempsey and Me han met five times, Mechan wi ning two decisions, Demprey o and two were draws. Meehan wvictories were not flukes, you wee. And we won’t xay a word about that fight with old Jim FI. in which Demprey was knocked out with a panch. An Carpentier h: 1 of b DEMPSEY AVOIDS RING AND GATHERS IN COIN (This is the eighth of a daily series of sketches n! ring battles of Jack d Georges Carpentier.) EMPSEY won the title like a virile, two-fisted fighter, and it was believed that he would box often, without quibbling as to terms -But he, like man; the time for reaping a financial harvest would not last forever, and, guided v other champions, realized that Carpentier slid_under it and blazed away with a blow to the heart Wells' knees sagged. ~ Carpentier| Wells went down for the count. ‘The bout had lasted less than one minute. Now, more than ever, French joy knew no bounds. Pictures_of Car- pentier festooned Paris. Sculptors made him their model. Statuettes of the boxer adorned automobiles. More than ever, he was the “Idol of France. PLENTY OF TICKETS YET Only About 60 Per Cent of Seats for Big Battle Have Been Sold. NEW YORK., June 28.—Promoter Tex Rickard announced today that he had taken in more than a million dol- lars from the sale of tickets for the big fight. Receipts now in hand are more tifan twice as large as the gate for the Dempsey-Willard bout at To- ledo. 1 And only 60 per cent of the 91813 tickets had been sold—in round num- bers 55,000. All the $50 seats are sold, but there are still numbers of seats at smaller prices. It is predicted that the gate finally will "“amount to $1.600,000, of which $500,000 will go to the fighters and ap- proximately $300,000 for promotion ex- penses. 1n other words, about $800,000 | for Rickard. ‘ ARENA READY THURSDAY. JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 28—The sound of hammers ring out day and night at Boyles' thirty acres where ex- tra crews of carpenters and laborers are engaged in putting the finishing touches on the arena in which Jack Der and Carpentier will uly 2. The contractors have assured Tex Rickard that the last nail will be in place by Thursday night meet EARL & WILSON ‘Soft Collars ~ . Are Going Like Hot Cakes at ~ 3 for 50c fighting in Europe, we Amerl re not familiar with the details. veryhody who has It In a fact that seen Carpentier againat Jeannette, Wells, Gunboat others all pick Carpen- The writer witnessed the fight between Carpemtier and Papke, and even though Georges 1ont he showed enough to convince me that he was a great fighte: Carpentier fought big Joe Jean- nette eight yearn ago, when the tier to win. " Tt was a lucky buy of ours—an opportunity we jumped at because everybody knows E. & W. Collar values— knows they are 35¢ and 50c everywhere in the United States—and to pick from twelve of the standard shapes —planandsllk-stnped—allperfecteollmofthmsea- s production—guaranteed by Earl & Wilson them- sdves—atthspfieeuthemostextraordmarythmz that has ever happened in collars. We bought a round eleven hundred dozen. There’s still a good assortment of sizes—but come for them promptly. ——By Rlpley. Smith a If you doubt that the pale-face Frenchman can for the mine seconds. knoeked Jeanmette down here—eight or ten years agof Jeannette ma out of the fighter in the wo has nothing in particular to gain. A manager, Descamps, said’ —to atar in movies. Georges is a fine acto biE_success in photographique.” Which is quite true. If Carpentier was fichting only for the money he would be busy instead of retiring hehind barbed wire fences in Man- Carpentier could have taken in & xood sized fortume had before the poh- mrabbing ft, hasset. he cared to trai lic after the fashion of The Freachman $£50,000 at least for hia privacy. He knows hin basimess. t. remember that he knocked Joe down twice—once Whoever. around Dempaey climb m) probably oatd = Don't be rrht:..fl the battle goes twelve BY JACK fans have jumped to the conclusion right hand, It is in order for the fans to dispel these worries right now. Dempsey, when making his fight in the ring, is a lot different from Dempsey pull- ing punches in a practioce tilt with a lighter sparring partner. Any one who has seen the champion in action knows that his best defense is his whirlwind attack, and when chooses to fight there is no one go- ing to have much time to wallop him. Cannot Cut Loose. In sparring bouts the champion cannot cut loose. It is true he for- gets occasionally and lets the punches fly, but a yell from me or Teddy Hayes always brings him back to earth again. On the average, however, the real Dempsey is not on exhibition in his training camp box- ing bouts, for the reason that his sparring partners are not able to stand the punishing. That is how it might happen that a right-hand punch would slide through. Dempsey, in my opinion. is immune from a right-hand punch such as Carpentier's, for the reason that he has his pet hook delivered before a right hander started at him has time to ‘get well under way, and a Demp- sey hook to the body will bother the aim of any right-hand swinger in the business. 1 talked with Eddie O'Hare just the other day about the champion’s work- outs lately, asking him how Jack worked on that particular day. “Fine,” said O'Hare. “There's one thing about Dempsey | that appeals to me. You can box with | a time, until you have all sorts of | configence. You actually become care- less,“and then something drops. 1 firmly believe that Jack-kids you into thinking he is a soft mark to hit, and before you realize it, you have fallen 33838 Field Glasses Made for Royal Alr Bervice by Dumont, Paris. See the Fight Better Glasses, 532 EACH KANAWHA SUPPLY CO. 926 Pa. Ave. NW. 305 7th St. NW. S38eee888sseenessssssseeesssssssssssessssssss Explains Landing of Blows on Champion in Camp as Result of His Being Forced to Ease Up on Sparrers. Manager of World Champion Jack Dempsey. TLANTIC CITY, June 28.—Many of the fight fans who have watched Jack Dempsey in his training here have remarked the fact that he has been hit frequently by a right-hand punch from Eddie O'Hare, or the fast little fellows, Joe Benjamin and Babe Herman. Not all of the bu! some have, and have also worried over the possibilities of Carpentier’s landing frequemly upon the champion with a right hand, admittedly the Frenchman’s best punch. he ! him, and he'll sort of fool around for | KEARNS, that Dempsey is a mark for a fast into a trap that has been carefully set for you. I've mever seen so many arms in my life as when I've tried to break through Dempsey's guard when he doesn't want to be hit." O'Hare's view is just one of many. But ringside critics have declared that he is the fastest sparring partner Dempsey has had to work with and his opinion may be interesting. Has No Worrles. I don’t anticipate any ill effect on Dempsey’s punching in his actual ring encounter with Carpentier as a result of his go-easy campaign at Airport, any more than I'm worrying over Dempsey’s ability to box twelve rounds and be as strong at the finish simply because he hasn't boxed twelve right along in his training. It's just as Freddie Welsh, the for- mer lightweight champion said recent- ly. “If you are training for the hun- dred-yard dash you don't run it in record time every day. You save that supreme effort for the actual race. That's what Dempsey has done. Don’t worry about any right-handers aimed at the champion. But keep your eve on those headed in Carpentier's direc- tion. (Copyright, 1921.) FIGHT TITLE TO LEWIS. Beats Bloomfield on Points for British Welter Honors. By the Asaociated Press. LONDON, June Lewis last night Bloomfield on points in a twenty- round bout for the middleweight championship of England. 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