Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1921, Page 24

24 SPORTS. Dempsey Is Anxious to Have Fight Over CARPENTIER HAS BETTER THAN “OUTSIDE CHANQE” Georges, Like Dempsey, Has Sufficient Punch and the | Champion Is Human—He Can Be Knocked Out. - . TITLEHOLDER IS TIRED OF THE TRAINING GRIND Declares If He Were Offered $500,000 for Contest Month | From New He Would Decline. NTIC CITY, N. J.. June 29—Today is the beginning of the end Jack Demipsey's two-month training grind. The champion is all through with his grind in the open-air arena, and the last work- suts this afternoon probably will be staged behind barred gates in the old airplane shed back of the training camp. The work will be light, and may not include boxing: The champion, dreading the last three days of marking time, is glad that the long e of training is nearing an end. He does not display any outward signs of nervousness or irritability, and his handlers agree ical condition could hardly be improved. :lad to have this thing over [hind locked gates, mpsey said. “You have 1o |curious eyes of the « of the hardships of a long train- | in front of the box office have been ing grind. IUs terrible I was of-| vanked down and the ticket b fered five hundred thousand for a been turned over to the owners. | fight & month from now 1 would not | Only newspaper men and perhaps a ®o throuzh all t ain. 1am tired | few friends will be admitted this aft- Of training. I want to take a rest.|ernoon and tomorrow. Just us soon as 1 can get my affairs | Get Ready to Leave. i in shape after meeting Carpentict | 4ttaches of the camp already have of from the The signs am goin home o e City, UhanSoale home to Salt Lake City|pigun the task of getting things in el A Poene shape for the champion’s departure. | isha ounds. According to present plans, Dem Dempsey is about three pounds over |and his party will leave for Jersey] the figure he expects to scale when ! City Friday. He will spend the da; he climbs into the ring at Boyle's|in the seclusion of a private home in thirt res Saturday afternoon. but | Jer: City. and will be kept in se- €Xpects to lose a couple pounds today | clusion until the time to go to the and tomorrow and ther pound | arena. The day before the battle will when he dries out Friday. He will[be the longest of all. and Dempsey” bstain from eating certain foods | handlers preparing to nurse and will only drink water the day treme care. hefore the battle. He scaled 193/ ion's work-out in private Pounds vestsrday and cxpeets to go |y ay was brief. He boxed a round | into the ring at the 140-pound noteh. | With the light bag, another with the The sram mapped out for the | heavy one and a round each with m Is for some light [ I:ddie O'Hare and Larry Williams. He exerese d perhaps round or two | eliminated shadow boxing, and was on of bexin he feels inclined to pull { the way to the shower within fifteen | = He will form be e minutes. JACK FAILS TO IMPRESS IN DEFEAT OF BRENNAN! ack He was irennan hit him and appeared to (Thix in the ninth of a daily xeries of sketches of ring battles of Jack Dempwey and Georges Carpentier.) CK DEMPSEY knocked out Bill Brennan in the twelith round of ! / their bout at Madison Square Garden, December 14, 1920, in his ' most recent contest. The champion’s showing that night againstl Brennan, a good second-rate boxer, was far from reassuring. The cham- pion appeared to have suffered from the long lack of action. much slower than in previous bouts. }lurl]}mn and Dempsey left the ring after the fight bleeding from an in- jured e . The throu out, howdver, most of the rounds re made and m, ¥ the t To Fight R;in or Sixh!e; i Ring Will Be Protected Demp tallen to show NEW YORK, June 20.—The his usual aggressiveness, Brennan Dempaey-Carpenticr battle Sat- apparently had no fear of the cham- | Urday, ‘will he held rain or pion. and took the initiative in sev.! | Mhine, aceording to present eral of the rounds, often standing toe plans, Tex Rickard has made %o toe with F - slnaglig How- arrangements whereby in the | Lte wear down | €vent of rain a huge tarpaulin covering will be stretched above | | the ring for the protection of the boxers and to prevent the oor canvax from becoming et and ~lippery. The tarpauli will be inxtalled in such n man- ner as not to interfere with the | view of the ring from uny part | of the huge arena. | e later rounds . i left to the body and a right to the head sent Brennan to the nvas, It w the only knockdown of the unsatisfactory bout. CARPENTIER IS BEATEN, BUT FLOORS JEANNETTE | | USE KNIFE ON RACER. | The early mon‘hs of 1914, the close of which was destined see Car-| pentier a_ soldier in real fight, | brought the Frenchman his first de- ' On Watch Is Recovering From feat since he had lost tc iy Ke | + in 1012, Jc R K n Operation on Windpipe. nesro heavyw one of the CEW Y < s 5 same's hardest hitters, was the vietor| NEVv YORK, June 20—On Watch, | one of the foremost racehorses of the 1920 season. is recovering after an peration for an affected windpipe The racer, which won ten events |, year and was successful in the P over the Frenchman in fifteen-round bLout. Many | thought that Carpenticr been awarded the deci In spite of that, ( sla hing Ltors should hav on pentier's t hit- ting power shown in that battle con-|Mmonok handicap this year, showed vinced Americans ¥ here was a|indications of “blowing” after two ) real, topnotch heavyweight. 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Ave. | _— White Cheviot Shirts, with collar a Jap Silk Pongee Shirt: \ E v \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921 : Carpentier Only One Not Nervous in His Camp CLOUTER SEES PUNCHER Ruth Visits Carpentier—Tells Georges He Hopes He Hits Homer on Saturday. MANHASSET., N. Y. June 29.— Rabe Ruth. base ball's stellar long- distance hittér, visited Georges Car- tier yvesterday and Shed the challenger a home run on Saturday. Ruth came_trailing down the road in a fast roadster and pulled up with a jerk at the entrance. “Who are vou?" inquired the po- liceman on duty. “Babe Ruth,” was the reply. “Drive in." said_the officer. “Hello, Gicorges,” began Babe. “My name is George, too: hope you get a ! home run Saturday.” “Same to yo smilingly rejoined the challenger, after Babe's greeting had been translated for him. The home run champion stood | alongside the champion heavyweight boxer of France for a comparison of their size 'm_bigger this way.” laughed Babe, cupping his hands in front of him. “but you're bigger this Wi and he measured the chal- lenger's shoulders. Babe had his pic- ture taken with Georges, then waved his hand and drove away. il 700 TO WRITE OF BOU Reporters From Many Nations to Be There—100 Wires to Send Stuff From Arena. YORK, 29.—Probably NEW June imore newspaper correspondents than were emploved on the battleficlds of » during the world war will be d to report the Dempsey-Car- rext Saturd Ike Dorgan, who has charge of the arrangements, said there would 700 newspaper men at the ringside, 0 of whom would be dictating to raph operators while the bout <" in progress. and the remainder encireling the arena directly in front of the holders of $50 tickets. Tt will array of fight chron- chroniclers of any other kind. ever assembled to “cover’ nle event. Reporters from many nations will watch Dempsey, the champion, and Carpentier. the debonair French chal- ten battle for honors, and through their newspapers will tell the world the story of the encounter. Seven ters from France will be on hand ting and hoping that they might ble a flash that their countryman hecome the world heavyweizht mpion. Encland will be repre- nted by fifteen newspaper corre- spondents, and cight more will come en Tokio. on the > of the world, will have spe- writers there, as will Copenhagen, ila. Havana, Bucnos Aires and foreign cities. legraph wires will bhe- £in buzzing early in the morning, for. chile the bout does not start until 3 lock, scan will begin to “brea pr * around § o'clock. Some reporters will be on the ground as early as 5 o'clock on the morning of the fight. —_—— Wilson to Fight Britton. Johnny Wilson, middleweight cham- pion. will meet Jack Britton of New York, welterweight titleholder, in a ten- round, no-decision bout at East Chicago, Ind., July YANKEES WIN AT POLO. ated Press. AM. England, June 29.— captain of the polo .team. fine contest between dowbrook four and vodpeckers,” shot the winning goal fur his team: The score was 7 to 6. The play was in the tour- ament for champion cup, in hich eigh are competing.” By the Assoc HURLINC cux Milburn. international a in trimmed with silkk. 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Will Never Go the it will not go the limit. win reach have elapsed. will be the victor. se: m: Choice af effective patterns, carefully cut and made; tailored into permanent shape- Big Odds Not Justified. But is the belief that Dempsey will well founded as to justify odds as high as Iy—s0 land that his antagonist, who is only itwo vears the senior of the champion, has led an exemplary life. agreed on this point, the champion's natural physical advantages give him a decided edge on the challenger nnd‘{ imake him the logical favorite. but not 1, Facts. The plain facts, with all the verbiage about ductless glands, psychology and are that two trained each other before the largest crowd ever assembled be- hind admission gates and for the rich- ast prize ever offered in the annals of attempt to win in the «sses punching ability suf- 1. Dempsey unquestionably can hit the harder and more effectively with both the more rugged—can stand thessreater amount of punish- why he is the favorite, and rightly so, but Dempsey is hu-} He can be knocked out. bigger Limit. There is only one thing fairly cer-! tain about the forthcoming battle— Both have vulnerable spots and one or the other it befose twelve rounds The first one to do it 1t should be Demp- but, it may be Carpentier—don't any mistakes about that. The Frenchman. who really represents America, its ideals and spirit, rather Mobilizing the Mohairs— You'll find plenty of ghe comfortable Mohairs here— I the featherweight that has popular preference this sea- | son—because of its combination of comfort and dressiness. $22.50 Of course, the other Tropicals that are sensible and serviceable—Silk Suits, Palm Beach, Gabardine, Tropical All of the Mode standard. White Flannel Trousers at $10 a pair. English Cricketing Cloth Trousers at $13.50 a pair. 47 15722 Out of 31.65 8495 207% off the are may And men than the champion. even as Dempsey down mastodons like BY DENMAN THOMPSON. R HERE'S nothing to it.” “The Frog hasn't got a chance.” These and expressions of a like nature sum up the opinions of a great majority of fight fans in regard to the debate with five-ounce gloves to be held before upward of 90,000 judges at Jersey City next Sat- urday afternoon, between J. Dempsey and G. Carpentier. The battle of a century, as the approaching mill has been more or less aptly termed, is all settled before it starts in the minds of about eight out of ten persons concerned about the meeting, and it is safe to say more people are inter- ested than in any single sporting event of any nature ever held in the world, regardless of place or time. So firm is the general conviction the champion will triumph over the challenger that it is not how end. but when that is oc cupying the attention of the sport- Most_of the wagering ; talk of wagering— } the volume of betting being compara- tively very light for an affair of the magnitude of that in prospect—has to do with, what round will mark the | than the native born, has more than an outside, desperate chance Lo win. And if he does. disappointment the spectacle of an “invader. an “alien,” carrying the world champion- t of this country, where it hi eposed since it was first earned by James J. Corbett, will be neither ke nor poignant, or we have incorrectly gauged the sentiment of red-blooded Americans. BURMAN SHADES LYNCH emphatically no. In our|gag Better of Bantam Champion in Instances where the choice of the defeated numerous and well remembered. The| of fisticuffs has been that; almost invariably the titleholder en- tered the ring on the heavy end of the speculation, yet the champjen- ship has continued to change hands. one of them go on forever! argued that Dempsey is ivet a young man. only twenty-six. When most athletes are at the helght of their prowess and that even though he has dallied around the bright lights since he won the crown from Wil he could by no process of reasoning be figured to have im paired his vitality to such an extent as to be now on the down grade. This is a fact that Dempsey Ten Rounds, According to Newspaper Men. CHICAGO. June 2 bantamweight boxing ch | shaded by Joe Durman | their ten-round bout at I3 Ind. last night in the opinion of newspaper men. As decisions by referees are not permitted in Indiana. Lynch's cham- pionship was not affected. Representatives of both morning newspapers and a Chicago majority of the afternoon papers gave Bur- man a slight shade. Burman did most of the leadin Lynch fighting cautiously and not appearing to take any chances ex- cept in the third, sixth and ninth rounds. In these.frames the finishes | were. fast. The general opinion amon: experts was that Burman had a slight shad« Dempsey should win this fight, therefin four rounds, Lynch in one and }is no gainsaying that. Assuming|ihe other five were rly even. jboth contestants are in equally §00d| The bout was the fourth in which condition, and all the experts are|the men have engaged. each having [won a decision and one de- clared a draw. In a preliminary bout Andy Chancy of Baltimore was given a shade over Christiano of Chicago by newspaper men. They are featherweights. JACK’S AUTO RELEASED. Fighter Must Appear in November Regarding $500 Doctor’s Bill. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 2 automobile belonging to Juck sey, the heavyw ampion, to be valued at §15.000. was s front of a hotel yesterday to satis $500 judgment obtained against being the fighter in a Philadelphia court recent- 1y by Dr. Herbert k. Goddard for an unpaid balance for an operation‘on the champion’s nose ATLANTIC CITY. N. J, June 29.— Dempsey did not know until today that his big motor car was in the pos- session of Philadelphia bailiffs for a h half hour yesterday. Dempse: auf- feur drove James F. Dougherty, a friend of the champion. to the Quaker ity, where the car was seized. Dougherty, however, appealed on behalf of Dempsey to the superior court for a new trial, which was set for November. The car then was re- leased. “Dempsey will fight this thing to a finish.” Dougherty said. the mast! night! i verp, i i Prince.Albert’s a new note in the joys of rolling! 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Seignobos, professor of French his- tory in the (‘niversity of Paris, has been obscrving that his students were coming into the lecture room with ping newspapers, which. upon examination by the curious professor, turned out to he sporting dailie with long articles relative to the prospects’ of “an American named Dempsey and a Frenchman named Carpentier, Prof. Seignobos took occasion to refer to this in opening one of his lectures, the subject for the day hap- pening to be “Henry 1V.” H Te ported as having said in substance “Young gentlemen, 1 have not led to see that your attention has been somewhat distracted from th study of the history of your race by what seems to_me the undue im- rtance being given a trivial en- ounter at icuffs between two men which is about tn take place on the other side of the sea. I have seen. allusions in the public prints to the zlory that would accrue to the French people by the victory of Carpentier. “I cannot refrain from mentioning that t greatest achievements of our ruce have not been through the display of physical, but mental pow- er. I have no doubt that Jack John- son could beat Napoleon in a per- sonal combat, or that Bergson would be found unequal in a ring inclosing him and Mr. Dempsey. “I beg of you, young gentlemen, to maintain a’ sense of proportion’ in vour intellectual interests and to ndon perusal. at least during lec- ture hours, of these ephemeral pub- lications. F WAGERS ON FHT Betting Is Lighter Than on Any Previous World Heavyweight Championship Contest. NEW YORK, June 29.—Wagering on the Dempscy-Carpentier bout for the world heavyweight championship at Jersey City July 2 is extremely light, Qespite interest on two continents that promises to eclipse that evidenced in iny previous title battle. According to figures at which some roney has Leen wagered in Wall street, Dempsey seems likely ring an odds-on favorite at 3 to 1 for the title the ¢ has been the since the Sulli +holder been so strong- of major worth. e over “Gen- a 2-to-1 fa- y_when_the . Jim Jeggpies 2 over Jack er won at Tol ring favos vorite e Nard at Hava but these figures shifted as the day ite. of the hout approached and the negro with the odds of only 6 10 5 in his . Jim Corbett was approxim. 0-1 shot over Bob Fitzsimmons when they met at Carson climbed into the ri ds of 9 to 5 have been quoted that Dempsey will win by a knockout. Per- sons who back Carpentier to drop Dempsey for the count demand odds of 20 to 1. 0dds of 10 to 1 have been sked by persons who woulll wager that ntier will not answer the bell for hird round. ris, almest hysterical in its enthu- siasm for the French war hero. never- theless is dubious when money is men- tioned. Word reccived here states that Dempsey rul an $-to-5 favorite on the boulevards, with little money placed. 0 £o into| SPORTS. PREPARING FOR BATTLE IS PICNIC FOR GEORGES Has Not Shown the Least Trace of Anxiety, Closely Cropped Hair Being His Only Worry. - ’ ANHASSET, N. Y., June 29.—As the day for the world champion- ship bout draws near everybody in the challenger's camp is get- ting nervous, excepting Georges, and he alone appears to be wor- | 1ying about as much as a schoolboy getting ready for a picnic. He wants to 70, and is having lots of fun making preparations. Outside of this, 1. has not displayed the least trace of anxicty. The escape from the «.iwd of visitors yesterday afternoon was not made so much because Geuiges was nervous, but because of his camp associates. His friend Pierre Mallet, who has | hair. Since his blond pompadour was increased his cigarette consumption |clipped by the barber of Manhasset 50 per cent in the last few days,|he has been wearing a cap. He runs plotted to get away because he didn't | his hands over the top of his head want Georges to be bothered, and scems amused at the sensation in Manager Descamps has begun to| his fingers. wring his hands and pull his hair, and| Today Carpentier entered into the Trainer Wilson has betrayed a slight |final stage of training and he ex- irritability. pects to be on edge when he calls Georges' only worry is his short!a hait tomorrow afternoon GEORGES SHADES RIVAL IN TEST OF MENTALITY (This is the fourth of m series of six articles by Dr. Willinm Brady, noted phyxician, who has examined both fighters. He i giving a complete physical analysis of the rivals.) HERE is an undeniable atmosphere of confidence in the result T noticeable at Manhasset, and down at Atlantic City about Demp- sey's camp the atmosphere is all “fight.” About the French train- ing quarters you hear no tough conversation, no profanity. The atmos- phere there is thoroughly clean, and apparently gentlemen only gain !t admittance to the place. I regret to say that I did not find quite so whole- |some an atmosphere at the American training quarters. In an hour I heard more downright filthy speech and unwarranted profanity in the Dempsey camp than I have heard in a long while, not from Jack himself or from any one immediately connected with him, so far as | know, but irom persons who were obviously not outsiders. Jack Dempsey himself is a clean-| jAnd in Loth cases it required a fow spoken fellow, and I dare say he!d-conds to make clear that they were would have stopped the mouths of the |being timed and must not Stop 1o talk hangers-on had he heard their rotien until the tisi was completed. speech. There was also too much talk | Jack's clapsed time was two min- about booze and the evils associated lutes and thirty-four seconds, wh therewith—still without Jack’s knowl- | Georges' was two minutes and fiftecn edge, 1 am sure. All this indicates seconds. And Georges made four er- that'a certain dcgree of the ol rors against Jack s five, but Juck d and now obsolcte “prize fighter'” at- covercd the little point every one else mosphere prevails about the Ameri- | had overluoxed that where {can camp, and we can only Lope that[tre test directs vou o write any let- this will not react to the delriment ter except G afier a certaln commis, of the American contender's chance|we had all written letter before, of retaining the world's championship. [us Georges had done. That may has 1t psychology is a factor at all, us 1|been more or less accidental. but [think it is, then this plug-ugly at-|shows tsat Jack is not fast asheep, any rate. May Mean Much. We must give Carpentier a “news- vaper decision” in this test, since hus rating is about 15 per c-nt better than Dempse 1 think that mosphere i6 a sad mistake. . Carpentler's Reactl Fi T said that Carpentier is of the san- guine tempegament and Dempsey is phlegmatic. The Utah man is slower in reacting, slower by a huir, but per- haps that much surer or more accu- rate. Thus it took Jack some twenty seconds longer to complete the Woods- Worth and Wells test for attention than it did Georges, but while they both made the average number of mistakes, it was Jack who uncarthed ana righted one little point in the test ! Tkat had quite escaned cverybody else. lincluding myself. up to that moment, and that fact accounts for most of the elapsed time after the average two Iminutes required to complete the te ILet me say that while a certain cle- ment of luck enters into such a test. it takes a pretty keen head to com- plete it in lcss than two minutes Without making any errors or cra- sures or corrections.+ Another thing, both Dempsey and Carpentier were taken by surprise, and I think neither |understood very clearly at the be- ginning t the idea was. “It is too silly.” said Georges. as in- i terpreted for me. “Kind of a brain teaser, !said Jack. fairly describes both contestants. The Furopean contender is 15 per cent faster in his mental processes than tie American co and amon meny otk vattic 2K as 4 man being mentally too slow to seize an opportunity to finish a fight 1821 VESPERS QUIT REGATTA. 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