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SPORTS. Fight Pictures Are Gratifying to Carp entier FRENCHMAN IS SHOWN TO BE NERVY FIGHTER BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, Juiy 8—Gallant a: N encounter he said he hoped he hid peaple. nd chivalrous as any of those mail- clad Gauls who followed in the train of William the Conquerorsis Georges Carpentier. In his battle with Jack Dempsey he disre- garded instructions and carried the fight to the champion. After the been able to satisfy the American 1f he had any lingering doubt oh this score it was dispelled yesterday afternoon when he sat in the Halsey Theater, on Market street, in Newark, and lived again that hair As the reels unwound they revealed a combat as_eplc in its dramatic qualities as Tom Brown's famous engagement with Slogger Willlams at Rugby or John Ridd's battle on the moors. Once or twice as Georges sat watching, it seem- though he shivered when Demp- huge fis jed his head back- <houlder forwar reproduction o wallop, which -3 n right-hand staggered (he champion in the second round, wus shown. Champion ix Jarred. tearful in The force of iin the actual bat- at theater waiting, into the effort, Kk's chin der the impac ampion flew backward about four feet. He didn’t jump. He was knocked backward. The next in- stant a right upperc for the ! It was a miss by an inch. Had it landed, who may at might have happened That thought probably hit the Frenchman hard he sat watching in that stuffy theater. For he leaned forward with sort of 4 droop and then shook his Lead. when Dempsey clinch- ed and weathe is moment of danger. Carpentier- turned to camps. who his right, T his brows and smiled and shoo! head. Right h was cted on the silve een the reason why Car- no return match with ° jaw that built net result was that might b greater a t h been a granite wall There other a crum e no | of the punch result—the had heard rigid as the fighters going to he sa pictures showed th their corners at t Then appears Jack Kearns at Demp- sev's Jeft elbow. From a hip pocket hottle and places it to inhales it ntained all Araby. Slowly | ih that New the faces of Carpentier amps met. The dimly 1 above them re vealed and shining eyes. Watches Fatal Fourth. After that the picture shows Car- penticr making liftle use of his rikht | uppereuts, the hand, to protect thumb. tal fourth round arrives Carpentier did not rgove his eves from the screen. His face was inscrutabie as he saw him- self lying upon the ring floor, spring- ing to his feet with desperate energy at the count of nina. only to be sent prone again as Dempsey rushed to the attack. When the Carpentier party rosa and | went out to their automobiles they had seen nothing to show that at all -raising struggle. MOTHER' T0 JACK SUES Mrts. Carrie Barrett Asks $500 for " Her Varied Services at Champion's Camp. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July §.—Suit to collect $500 wages was filed yester- day by Mrs. Carrle Barretf, Wwho niothere Jack Mempséy while he was in training here for two months ih prep. for his fizht with Ceorges C , against the cham- pion a ns, hlg manager, in_the Atlantic City district court. Service was made on Kearns last night, it was stated. Mrs. Barrett alleges in her petition that “on May 10 she agreed to render her services as general manager and helper in buying food and groceries, managing the work in the kitchen, keeping house in good order and doing other things to enable those living therein to_be comfortable.” She also states that her servic were worth $60 a week apd she has ll‘)('l'ulvcd but $100 for her time and la- or. Dempsey on Way Home. CHICAGO, 111, July 8.—Jack Demp- sey left Chicago for Salt Lake City i0 visit his mother. The heavyweight champion ~ had been here since Wednesday morning. He sald he left New York hurrledly to dodge process servers in suits on unjust claims. —_— 'PAID RENT, SAYS KEARNS Declares He Gave $3,000 for Demp- sey's Training Quarters at - Atlantic City. NEW YORK, July 8—Jack Kearns says that he pald the rent in full for the two Airport training quar- ter buildings before leaving Atlantic City on July 1. The sum he says he paid was $3.000. This would seem to dispose of the statement that the Dempsey retinue had permitted some one to stake them to the quarters. Kearns had nothing so say about the $100 check he gave Mrs. Mathews, the woman who throughout the train- ing had kept house and been a “real mother” to Jack Dempsey. There Ix golng to be a big crowd at the Bronx boxingdrome on Tuesday night when Bob Martin and Frank Moran hook up. If Martin can put Frank away easily and swiftly, he can by that self-same blow suddenly assume a position among the leading candidates for the honor of meeting THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921 SPORTS. HORRID OLD WOODS. MOSQUITEES, BLACK FLIES, FooD SERVED OM VULGAR TIN PLATES ANnD NOT A PERFUMED BATH NOR A Bo™M BoN FoR A WEEK. YA N N West Side Team Takes All Nine Matches From Oxford-Cambridge Combination. NEW YORK, July 8—American racketers representing the West Side Tennis Club, yesterday made a clean sweep In the doubles and singles matches againat the Cambridge-Ox- ;:lr? vlayers of England, at Forest Ils. Only one match, that between S. H. Voshell and R. P. P. Barbour of Ox- ford, went to deuce games. Sum- mary: Singles. Ichlya Kumagae defeated H. Carthy of Cambridge, 6—1, 6—1. Watson M. Washburn defeated C. Hopkins, Oxford, 6—3, 6—1. 8. H. Voshell defeated R. P. P. Bar- bour, Oxford, 7—5, 6—1. T. R. Pell defeated M. D. Horn, Cambridge, 6—3, 6—1. L. E. Mahan defeated S. F. Hepburn, Oxford, 6—1, 6—2 F. C. Baggs defeated J. M. Lowry, Cambridge, 6—1, 6—0. Mc- vard British Athletes Will Arrive Next Wee —By Webster | € NEINEN (1EAN UPSTRONG TEAM ON WAY, 1 13- ) TO OPPOSE AMERIC N C - EW YORK, July 8—The members of the Oxford-Cambridge Eni;’ versity track team who will compete against the combined teams of Princeton and Cornell at Travers Island on July 28, are ex-, pected to arriye in this city early next week. In the party, which saifed, from England Wednesday, were close to twenty of the leading varsity athletes of the two English universities, HARVARD-YALE TEAM’ PRIMES FOR BRITONS CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 8.—In spite of the intense heat, both Har- and Yale athletes had work® outs yesterday in preparation for the coming of the team from Oxford and Cambridge: The Yale men remained at Beach Bluff in the morning, but later motored to Beverly. There they warmed up on the high school track, where the New Haven men will work on alternate days. Yale's quarter-miler, Coxe, jolned the forces under Johnny Mack and ap- peared to be in fine trim. The Yale trainer, owing to the heat, did not 0 \ drive his men, reserving them for to- . Deasite: ~ lday, when the first real try-out will ell and Karl Behr defeated Mc-{pe hield at Cambridge on the stadium Carthy and Horn, 6—0, 6—0. Kumagae and Beale Wright defeat- ed Hopkins and Barbour, 6—2, 6—2. Mahan and W. M. Hall defeated| Lowry and Hepburn, 6—1, 6—4. WOMEN IN TENNIS FINAL. Boston Players to Meet for Clay Court Championship. BUFFALO, N. Y, July 8—Mrs, Frank Godfrey and Mrs. B. C. both of Boston, will meet for women's national clay court cham- pionship here tomorrow. Mrs. Godfrey defeated Miss Mar-| jorte Knox. Buffalo city champion, in | the semi-final round, 6—0. 6—1, and Mrs. Cole won from Miss Leslie Ban- wfl of West Newton, Mass, 6—3, 4. Change in British Team. LONDON. July 8.—J. B. Gilbert will replace Maj. Cecil Campbell on the British Davis Cup team. It is under- stood that Campbell could not get £ Al Copiruhe, 1981 1L T. Wikhes GOLF ENTRY FOR OPEN LIKELY TO EXCEED 200 LTHOUGH not definitely decidéd, it is now expected that when the leaders in the professional and amateur golf world meet for the national open championship at the Columbia Country Club, July A SWEEP NET MATCHES. War Reds Take Five Contests From Commerce Racketers. \ ‘War Reds swept their five-match ten- Inis engagement with Commerce, held yesterday, In the Departmental Tennis League. All matches were decided In leave from the army. Too Much for Brookes. PITTSBURGH. Pa., July 8.—Norman Brookes did not captain the Austra- lian Davis cup tennis team, because he felt that he was not physically fit to stand thé work even of the eliml- nation contests, it has been learned here. Play for Southern Honors. ATLANTA, Ga, July 8.—Carlton T. Smith, Atlanta, present titleholder, and Douglass Watters, Mulberry, Fla., champion in 1916, meet today for the singles champlonship of the Southern Tennis Association. RSN S, MISSISSIPPI STATE LEAGUE. ‘ Clarksaale, 4; Jackeon, 0, Greenvwood, 5; Meridian, 2. track. Bill Bingham, who is in charge of the Harvard team, was much pleased when 1 saw Capt. Denny O'Connell run. O'Connell recently had a severe fall, and it was thought he might not be able to compete in the international meet. However, Coach Ringham sent him out for two miles, and the work- out was very satisfactory. The matter of the hurdles is atill & little_in the air. If Yale is going to run Sheddon against Hullman, _the freshman, Harvard will insist on' Dick Whitney, who is the next best to Krogness, being allowed to have a trial. The Harvard Athletic Association has received a letter from -Hurdler Trowbridge of the Oxford team stat- ing that the Englishmen would be at Princeton a week preceding the zames. Upon their arrival here the visifihg: track and field stars will begin friifne.. diate training for the internatighed. collegiate contests, which will -take place the latter part of this month, Athletic experts who have followed their work in the annual Oxford-Cam- bridge dual intervarsity games and the English national champiopkhips predict that the combinéd Light and Dark Blue team will be able to tesi, the best athletes of both Prindstop. and Cornell to the limit in the sched- uled games at Travers Island, ex., pecially as first places only wiil count: in_the international meet While the order of entry for th English collegians is not settie? at this time, it is thought that the visitors will send their men to:tfie line in the ten events about asifolss lows: - 100-yard dash—H. M. Abfahmms’ Cambridge. 449-yard dash—B. G. D. Rudd,’ Ox- Gregory, Cambridge. z rd run—B. G. D. Rudd and W. K. Milligan, Oxford; H. B. StaMard. Cambridge. Ome-mite run—w. K. Milllgan; @z:, ford; H. B. Stallard and W. G. Tatham Cambridge. e Thrre-rfl(le run—cInnes, Oxford,; and Seagrove, Cambridge. PG 120-yard hurdle race—G. A. Trow.. bridge, Oxford, and L. F. Partridge, Cambridge. . Broad jump—IL 8. T. Ingrams; ford, and H. M. Abrahams, Cambridge. Hammer throw—H. C. Nokes, Ox-, ford: N. F. Burt, Cambridge. Shot-put—A. F. Reese, Oxford: H.. D ‘Waterhouse, Cambridge. 2 High jump—R. J. Dickinson, Oxford; E. J. Burns, Cambridge. Reserve—J. Ford, Oxford. u cant help but like them! They are DIFFERENT They are GOOD BEECH-NUT 20 rorls\},\i CIGARETTES times the Frenchman did not con-!Carpentier next fall. In the mean- |19-22, th vi iti j i i - duct himself with the gallantry and|time, how about Frank if he hand 22, they will play under.condmon_s just a little different ffm-n those [straight sets. Summary: 3 f his ra that he{Martin more convincingly than which have beéen in vogue in preceding tournaments. Some time ago it | _Jobnwon-Fdgar (W. R.), d Green- | stiller (C., 80, 6 i ] B made of the ana Erennah did? was announced that if the entry list exceeded 200 conditions would be e e Hle W, ) % | defeated Davis-Hi C), 64, Fhioin, T rone races tn % @art Racing men| SHANECd o that one-half the field played on July 19 and the other hal | Thomee suter. (K- R ). deteatsh e Why is Carpentier a pugilist? That|today were wondering whethar the| o0 the ‘°‘;1°.w‘"3 day, cighteen holes each day, and the thirty-six best | (%" \©j,So% Boberts. Ablerfoigy 0 question recurs with greater empha- |showing of the Rancocas gtable at|Scores and ties each day to qualify for the championship proper. 6--1. 6-4: Hoover-Waggoner (W. R.), de- sis every fime you am with him. = He | Aquedust yesterday would stand as| The éntry list closed Tuésday, and al- tercollegiate tournament at the Graen. |fedié] Tenin-Dobkin (C.), 6—1, 6-1. foliows art and music and world af-| fairs with deep intercst and keen intelligence. He has supreme poise in any environment, and one grants him a great deai of culture, acquired if not natural. Perhaps he is a prize fighter becausa in his own country the sport is more agreeably environed than here and England. Or perhaps i i3 because beneath all Carpentier is a fighter. To fall into the vernacu- lar, we will say he is (Copyright, 1921.) TOM GBRONS WLLING On Vacation in Minnesota and “Will Not Think of Boxing” Until It Is Over. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 8 Gibbons, St." Paul light-hea boxer, is now on a va last until the middle until it i& over he about boxing.” That statement was made to a lo- cal sporting editor by Glbbons over the ~long-distance telephone from Osakis, Minn., when informed that Tex Rickard was seeking to get in touch with him in an effort to arrange & bout with Georges Carpentier. However, the St. Paul fighter 8ald he hoped the match could be arranged, for he is anxious to meet Carpentler. Rickard Awaits Gibbons. NEW YORK. July 8—Tex Rickard has declared that until he is abie to get In touch with Tom Gibbons he will be unable to make any definite propo- sition to Carpentier about a fight next fall. Carpenter is willing, he sald, to fight with any good man in his cla: —_—— RIDER’S INJURIES FATAL. Jockey Buckles Dies of Fractured Skull in Canada., MONTREAL, July 8.—Jockey E Buckles of St. Joseph, Mo., who wal thrown from his mount at the De Lorimier track Wednesday, dled at a hospital here last night from a frac- ture of the skull. He was well known on the Canadian turf, and also had appeared on American tracks. —_——— CHICAGO, TIl, July 8—Forty mew entries have been reported for the western amateur golf champlonship Bext wealk Tommy weight tion that will f August, and vill not think $E3.00 Ladles’ all-wool California style suits, all sizes and colors, values to $10.00. Special <» Bas FREE hing With Every the record of the metropolitan sea- son of whéther some even more un- usual sequence of victories by oné stable on a single day will occur again. ' the same time, through yester- ‘s showing, the Rancocas stables deposes Harry Payne Whitney as the leading money winner of the vear. Rancocas' four winnings yesterday netled $13,658, with a grand total for the vear of $115000. The Whithey earnings now stand at $110,000. The Rancocas winners were Budana in the first race, Mad Hatter in the third, Gray Lag in the fourth and Little Chief in the sixth. —_——— WILSON IN TITLE BOUT. Middleweight Champion Is to Meet Robinson July 15. BOSTON, July 8.—Johnny Wilson, middleweight champion, will defend his title against George Robinson of Cambridge in a ten-round bout at the Boston arena on the night’of July 15. 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