The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 2, 1919, Page 11

Section Two oo The Seattle Star "= SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNI # Georges Carpentier May Meet Winner ‘FATE SAYS JACK DEMPSEY WILL WIN ‘TITLE. FIROM JESS ‘WILLARD reach Ring King May Tackle Willard or J. Dempsey A After July 4 Carpentier Is Vuleeiai et of Ring at 25; Was La War Hero in Air Ser Service WONDER OF RING Georges Carpentier at 25 is a veteran of the world war and the ring. He fought in the ring eight years and in the war four. He started as a scrapper when but 14 years old. He began his meteoric career as a bantamweight and held championship honors in every class. He is now recognized as heavyweight champion of Europe He is to figure in a match on Labor day with the best heavyweight in England. It will mark his return to the ring game after four years of war, during which he won decorations for his gallantry in action. BY FRED TURBYVILLE E, A. Fight Bureau TOLEDO, O., July 2.—The next world’s heavyweight | championship match will be between the winner of the Willard-Dempsey imbroglio here July 4th and the champion of Europe. The latter in all probability will be Georges Car- pentier, for he is now recognized as the premier fistic per- former on the other side and chances are he will retain such honors for a time yet. \ Jack Kearns Will _ {Take Champ Abroad If the winner of the July 4th fight is Jess Willard ver likely the battle will be held on this side of the pond, and a good bet for its location is Chicago, where the 10-round box- ing law, recently passed, has set the fight bugs agog. If the winner of the fight here is Jack Dempsey it is ighly probable that Jack Kearns will take the new cham- pion to Europe and the first big match on that side of the | pond will be between Carpentier and Dempsey. If Dempsey wins he will want action, and lots of it. He} ‘will appear in the ring much oftener than any other og oh ‘weight champion of modern days. He doesn’t like to loaf. Both Dempsey and Kearns have promised that in event of victory on Independence day the public will not have to _ clamor for the appearance in the ring of the champion. ‘OULD SPEED GAME i, \ American boxing fans and critics robably a r belie Kearns is of the belief that shay gs ania ee igre haan ) \ imatches between the best in EMgland and was Dempsey and France with the American cham- would triumph in a match with Car | will do much to create an even | pentier, but just the same they would \ greater interest in the sport. |go'@ long ways to see such a match, or SAM LANGFORD — Willard’s |easy. He has jpothing but brute strength. wreteht and at round ability will win | He is siow on his féet, and does not have for him. toe much the boxing ability to land his punch with the maximum of force knock him out oot FEYNN—I have knocked out Dempsey wad been knocked out by Jack, but this has no bearing on my selection for the coming fight. 1 think Willard is too big for Jack, and took for him to win rather eusily, TOMMY BURNS —1 wit! take a fer on Jack Dempsey to defeat Jess Willard. The champion’s long lay-off has been too much for him to round up into proper fighting condition, with a strong, rushing fighter and a terrific puncher like Dempsey coming at him, I figure Dompary to beat that big. fellow. D rH 7 to jempsey wii feel sorry for him, for he seems to be & nice little fellow. MIKE O'DOWD, World's Middleweight | Champion—Dempsey will carry Willard wich @ terrific pace for sight that the champion will begin to He cannot come back, and 9 doubt in my mind about that arts to slow, after as- iiating the punishment Dempsey wilt hand bim, he will be ready for the fin- ishing touches. I look for Jack to win by a K. O, any time after the eighth round. " that Willard will to win in less will be too than 10 rounds or he will be knocked o Secs to whip Willard. Ask Frank JIM JEFFRIES—I watched Wil — si lard’s workouts at Los Angeles be- fore he went East, and I want to say that Willard is im good shupe to give @ good account of himself on July 4. ‘When he meets Dempsey he will be as fine as he ever was. Of course, not his stamina and ing powers will be as good as others hoping to turned the winter, good judgement with Wishes but cannot see how a little man. | great one, ean defeat a big man and ever were ean only be told by the © sfeat one. 1 look for @ 12-round con ring battle, : nd it is mighty hard for a decision | ‘ - | tebe rendered against @ champion. With | EDDIE McGOORTY—1've seen all the | it the natural advantages and a cham- | best, of the heavyweights for the past 10 | Dion's honor, 1 can't, for the love of | Years, and I think Dempsey the greatest | Stixe, see the championship turned over | of the bunch. He has @ real haymaking 2 wallop. I've seen him in the gymnasium to Jack Dempsey. and in the ring: He's clever a and makes no mistakes when openings occur for the goods t livered, JOHNNY KILBA making a big mistake by training in | the hot sun, True, the battle will be fought in the afternoon, but in- temsive heat saps the vitality rather than helps you get used to it. training methods are | A big man shot get bard- ened up, but not by methods that will reduce his strength, Willard will need every ounce he possenses when he faces Dempsey, BILLY GIBSON — Dempsey spring the surprise of Willard's Ti on the champion when they meet at Toledo on duly 4, 1 look for the contest to go the 12 rounds, with Dempsey the witmer and the new mpion on points. Dempsey is 0 fast that he will bewilder the big feliow, who never performed well against a small man, FAKE FIGHT TICKETS ARE BEING SOLD By H. C. HAMILTON (United Press Staff Correspondent) TOLEDO, July 2.—Fake fight tickets e made their appear- ance in different parts of the country, according to complaint made to Toledo police yesterday by Frank Flournoy, Tex Rick- ard’s partner in promoting the Willard-Dempsey battle here on | duly 4. } Yesterday a Cnicinnati man ex hibited to Flourney a ticket which | he said he had purchased in Cincin-| nati for $40. This ticket, while not exactly like those used by the pro. moters, was marked with the seat Dempeey | TOM SHARKEY days, He for him tot rounds. Wil in my opinion, Show me one good ever beat and I may change He beat Johnson when the and at that it He has been and my opinion. | Dlack fellow was all in. took him 26 rounds to do St out of the ring for three yea won't be half as ‘won the title He may look all right from the outside, but you can’t tell me ye'll be there when the pinch comes. JACK CURLEY — Dempsey will win. The big fellow has been away from the ring too long to come back, and Dempsey should quickly estab- lish his superiority after the first few rounds of battle, DANTE PETROFF Big faller, Zbyszko can beat that BATTLING NELSON—Jack Demp- sey is rounding to nicely, At this stage of his training Dempsey is a bit peeved. I was that way before I wen the battle which gave me the championship. It is = sure indica- | number and section and carried the fee see oaan '# im perfect phys | title “Willard-Dempsey” fight print- ed across it. Stamped in red across the face of the ticket appeared the price for the best seats for the To- ledo arena—$60. | The Cincinnati man thought he was buying the ticket at a $20 dis count | Below number, in small | letters, appeared the advertisement | of a cigar known as “El Rico.” j Flourney asked the Toledo police to notify police all over the country to be on the lookout for confidence men who were peddling the fake tickets. GUNBOAT SMITH—Jack Dempsey will be the heavyweight champion on July 4. Iam certain of that fact, because I have met both men. Willard has his favor except the great physiqu' which nature endowed him @ born figh men I ever met in th puzzl nockout in either hand arvelous, 1 boxed hi Francisco in 1917, and he outpointed | ¢, I boxed him again in 1918, and trained hard for the fight. He gave the worst lacing I ever got, and tucked me away in two rounds, I fought W! Jard 20 rounds in San Francisco in 1913 @ad easily won the decision, 1 found him be has the seat His speed is four rounds in Seattle Fans Favor Young "the Fight Is On! { Pick Dempsey to Beat Jess; Youth Will Win, Say Critics By LEO H. LASSEN | Jack Dempsey will be the | world champion heavyweight after the Fourth of July, if pre- dictions of local fight experts | come true, | In the poll of local sportsmen | 32 fighters and fight fans fa- vored Dempsey to win and 16 favored Willard to cop the hon- ors. Betting in Seattle is at even money and with Willard’s slight favorite in some quarters. Most of Seattle fight critics | think the battle will go the 12 rounds. Dempsey is favored because of his youth. “They don't come back” Is | the pet “slogan of Seattle ring nota- ble: “I have seen many championship battles,” im Davis, local sportsman, “and age always bows to youth, I pick Dempsey to win this says se nth or eighth round.” Frankie Murphy, kin Coast flyweight | who knows quite a bit about boxing himself, picks Willard to cop the big honors in the Fourth of July} bount. “Willard is too big and he is the better boxer,” says Frankie, “give me the boxer every time. He beats the one punch battler nine out of ten times.” After seeing Frankie, who knows | how to box, and has defeated lots of men heavier and harder hitters than himself, this fact is not to be denied. Willard is credited with being a bet | ter boxer than Jack. Willard, with his strong left will bother Demp- | sey, whose kick is in his right mitt. Brown Picks Jack Bill Brown, of Brown & Hulen’s, picks Dempsey to win, “Jess is too old to stop Jack zi, Lonnie Austin, i fight pro- moter, can't see anybody but Demp- sey “When I was in my” punches in a fight HES WINNING 208, Mard | says Lonnie, “but now, if some one hits me easily in the wind, I feel it clear down my spine, and I keep in training, too. Age can’t stand the gaff. Dempsey will wear Willard to |a frazzle before it is over.” | Lonnie Was Champ Lonnie was formerly welterweight champion of the Northwest. He is now on the brink of 40 years of age, near Willard’s mark, and many fans | | thruout the country are making the | same prediction, that Willard is too old. Ad Schacht, referee and well | to win, “A good big man always beats | good little man,” says Ad. will knock Jack for a goal.” And so on down the line. Will! Dempsey's youth win for the Giant} Killer? Is Willard too big for the) challenger? Similar questions are the land on the eve of the biggest heavyweight battle in four years that only the fight itself will be able to answer. Life Is Such IN TOLEDO BY RAZZ BERRY EYE ON TARGET H.%. Broad of Chicago is go ing to fire a broadside into the fight crowd July 4th—said | broadside consisting of 60,000 ot dog sandwiches. Broad likes to feed the birds—at 20 cents pcr dog. | can j all over. | ‘The arena was built to hold up the weight of 60,000 persons and |of hot dogs, a ton of peanuts, a ton| lof buttermilk and a ton of other knick-knacks, If the fights lasts long enough there will be a collapse. | | Two thousand fans will sleep in one big room. When they all | get going right the combined snoring will sound like a huge | jazz band. The only thing that could equal it would be # soup overture, pore evcereoall DY ‘The columnists and sport humor- ists are weakening under the strain. If the fight was two weeks off Kid| Vocabulary would never finish, Maybe Jack Kearns figures “silk will win the fight.” He has a trunk full of silk shirts. : . It’s getting hot around here. Jess| Carpentier will Willard has replaced his full-length tights with georgette crepe de chine bloomers. Looks funny without his Iuly 2.—(United Prens.) Teddy Bears. LONDON, that hea | America 1920, MacDonald, who will handle Car: pentier during the tour, aid there But the blackest thing around| would be no chance of his man meet the Dempsey camp is Jamaica Kid,'ing Jack Dempsey, Mike Gibbons or alias Dark Midnight, Mike O'Dowd before April- Georges Carpentier, Buropean eight champion, will tour the firat four months of, Jack Dempsey can be a lite guard if he loses the fight. He's sunburned the color of a broiled steak, Star to Win fight and look for a knockout in the| never bothered | me much, altho a jot of ‘em sting,” | versed in ring tactics, picks Willard | the big dope in fight circles thruout | of Big Battle ESDAY, JUL LS 2, 1919. Ju | Fifth Round Will Be Dangerous Session in Mix for Jack Dempsey ‘So Says Seer in - ‘Teledo; Dempsey Will | Get Lots of Kale, Declares Palmist Ex pert | shen | HERE’S JACK’S PALM t BY BETTY BROWN TOLEDO, Ohio, July 2.—If you believe in signs—put {your money on Jack Dempsey. | Fate has doped Jack Dempsey to win the champion- ‘ship! It’s in his palm! It’s in the spiritual influences hover- ing over Jack’s head! According to all the “signs” Jack’s troubles are over and he’s on the highroad to wealth and GREAT NOTORIETY! I’m just home from a “reading” with one of the most jnoted and successful of Toledo’s seeresses—a combination palmist and spiritualistic medium—who gave me a reading of Jack's palm so accurate and so thrilling I’m ready to go out and bet money on him myself! I can’t tell you the lady's name, because palmist: Toledo—(it seems to be about the ONLY thing that’s |and I don’t want to get my friend in trouble. This morning Jack Dempsey obligingly inked his mighty right hand for me and impressed it firmly on a sheet of smooth white paper! Jack was too busy to chase a palmist with me this afternoon. He had a little scrapping date with Bill Tate et al at his training camp. is “agin the law” in ‘agin the law” here}— GE Ri = . FATT However, I sleuthed out the palmist lady, and flashed the palm im ARE YOU GOOD AT PALM READING? DO YOU) yrossion on her as that of a friend ot mine! |DEMPS S HAND PROVES HE WILL BEAT WILLARD | remarks: 2 |ON JULY 4 AND WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAM-}| Dangerous Business | PIONSHIP OF THE WORL) D? “He's in some kind of dangerous business! Is he an aviator? NoO— | against an accident, 4 DEMPSEY IS | our. FISTED — |“ “He's in a specially critical time of his life right now—he must , of an accident—but I see he's going to get thru what he's tackling all | Id say he was in his twenties—isn't he? 4 | “He's a big fellow—lots of energy and power. He's so determined | |can do anything he wants to. My, what a hand! I see big things in it—he’s going to have won money—immense success. He's going to accomplish something bi; |the near future. I don’t see any thing that can stop him.” to Get Money Be You tell him when he | 4 gets it not to let it make a fool of him. 3 “He is sometimes subject to fits of melancholy. That is foolish—he has nothing to worry about, his best. His good habits will be his best friends, “I also see the figures 00. 1 don’t know whether it's dollars or not | it’s 35,000 tho—very plain.” : all the details of what is going to happen! | I blurted out: “This is the hand of one.of the fighters!” | “It’s Dempsey,” she exclaimed, “I've seen the “D” there all the | AGREE WITH THE TOLEDO MEDIUM WHO SAYS JACK) Without knowing the identity of the palm's owner, here are her first - I see it isn't that—but it’s something awfully dangerous. He must guard © Young! suecess—money—notoriety! It's all right there! It's coming soo: “Your friend is going to have lots of money. “When he reaches the age of 35 he will have everything—he will be I couldn't hold in any longer! I had to tell’ her the truth—and find out time! | | ‘That explains the great success line! He’s going to win! Every: thing is in his favor—he’s sure to win!" * “Four is his lucky number. He certainly has luck in his favor on Fourth. ® “He has @ lot of scientific skill—I see it. He thinks. He works scien tificaly. Fifth Dangerous HIM TO BE CAREFUL IN THE FIFTH ROUND! 'S HIS MOST DANGEROUS ROUND.” She began to count, slowly. 4s “One—yes—tell him to take it easy in the first round. The other mat.’ ™)| Will take it easy. Two, yes—three—four—ftive—five—there he must be | | careful!—six, yes—seven—eight—EIGHT! That's his round! Things look fine there—that's most favorable” Then I paid the lady my little old dollar and galloped to this typewriter |to tell you all about it—and advise you—(f y@u believe in signs)}—to put | your money on Jack Dempsey! BETTY BROWN FINDS JACK — DEMPSEY’S SWEETHEART | | | | HE outer line incloses the right fist of Jess Wil- lard. The inner line takes in the punching digits of Jack Dempsey. Photographer Bob Dorman took the picture of each at exactly five feet. The com- parison is accurate. | a) BY FRED TURBYVILLE TOLEDO,.0., July 2.—The male of the species invaria- | | | bly passes final judgment on the female of the species at the| Lay goog Sita heart—is | “just turned eight | e ise , jureau years old.” lend of the up-and-down—the feet. But whoever allowed the TOLEDO, Ohio, July 1.—Mr. Jack tebe age |foot of the male to cut any figure? Until a week ago Helen was pom | If the crowd eats 60,000 dogs you| biame it for yelping when it’s! | here they are going to drag in a ton} Tour U. S. A. Soon), | George MacDonald announced today | Dempsey is having a love affair! Right here in Toledo. When he should properly be giv- ing all his time and thoughts to the world’s boxing championship—he has thrown discretion to the winds and | ‘They do in fistic circles, If a)great buik, fighter is tall and has small feet he/| wise ones would unhesitatingly can easily toppled over with | to Dempsey, the challenger. punches to the head |hands are as big proportionately as Jack Jotinson was tall, thin of legs. | his feet, and again Dempsey is out but had big feet which made it hard| measured. acquired a sweetheart! to rock him with high blows. Jess has had one accident to his| She visits him daily at his training Jeffries had big feet, too, and it was | hands, pushing in a knuckle on his| camp! hard to topple him *|right hand in the Moran fight three} She has such a firm hold on our Ample Footing years ago. | hero's heart that no others need ap- | Both Willard and Dempsey have| Dempsey's hands are in splendid | ply. ample footing. They're both we!l|condition, His fists have sent many| She loves him devotedly and he jtaken care of in that respect, allow-|a hopeful to the canvas for the full loves her ardently, and they both ad- |ing each to take punches and in turn | count of 10 | mit it freely and in public! | had undersize hands, the flock be get well set to deliver a punch Jess’ hand is so big he can hit you! Only this morning I caught the Again, if Jess Willard, despite his! in both eyes at one blow kao ahercessl HL ihe, wenamental business of carving their inte: twined in initials on a fallen log on | Maumee Beach! It looks like a serious affair. | Everybody thought Jack Dempsey | [was immune to feminine allure- ments. | After 24 Years! | He's gone unwed and unengaged | for 24 whole years—and NOW after four short weeks, this charm resisting captive Mr. Dempsey’s sweetheart is Miss | Helen Dowell. She lives in a pretty brown bungalow a half-block from the Dempsey camp, | She is a petite blonde—the honest to-goodness golden-haired type with beautifully sweeping black eye lashes and smiling, shy blue eyes. She doesn't bother about being dressed up all the time—or fuss || about a chaperone with all those {/men—or worry about the conven- ices at all The Secret's Out She does as she pleases—and everybody thinks it's perfectly right—for Helen, Juck’s sweet- | | | EMPSEY’S feet are big enough for his size. So are Willard’s. The comparison shown above is accurate. Photographer Bob Dorman took the pic- tures at full length of the lens—five feet, The outer line is Willard’s foot. Inside is Dempseys, JOHNSON IDOL (1) LOS ANGELES, July 2—Jack Johnson, former heavywelght cham pion of the world, ts In Mexico City, acting as athletic trainer for a party | Protty bungaleers within a radi f a half-mile of the training camps | engaged in selling .00 per cent lemonade, posteard pictures of the boxers, or space in thelr front yards for the fans te park thelr flivyers, Tho cherry crop ts going to waste! hereabouts, No one has time to pick (ho fruli, ‘They're all busy plekin, | quarters and iron men from the as- | sembling flaht crowd, | Angeles con: tractor, whe Just returned from a six months’ tour of Mexico, Sny- der saya Johnson |g an idol of Mexico ate. ‘ fame of them may farm a fem: pany and buy out their present bogs Tf a fight bug gets neme jn his bee. after the Fourth, ryeedees he'll be sessed with long golden curls, Then in the course of nature and hot weather those curls became @ nuisance—tangly and hot, and all that, ‘and Helen voted for a bobbed coiffure—and got it. But just because she cut off her hair she didn't cut away her feme inine wiles with it! Certainly not! Romantic Stunt What did this daughter of Eve do but choose from the shorn and shin- ing mass, the longest goldenest curl of all—and tie it up in blue ribbon and white tissue paper—and carry it straight to her Jack? “What did he do, Helen, when you ave him your curl?" I asked. “I just told him to open it—and then he did—and he looked—and he laughed—and then he went to the house and put it in a little box and locked it up in his trunk,” said Helen, the unabashed And then Ernest, Helen's brother, broke in ing Toledo girl has made him an un NAME WATEH ° TOLEDO, July 2.—Jess Willard named Ed W, Cochrane, sports edi- | tor of the Kansas City Journal, hig timekeeper for the July 4 bout. “He hugged her, too!” MEN FOR BIG JULY 4 MIX Cochrane is one of the best known followers of pugilism. He is a refs eree of some reputation and wags given consideration when the referee for the Willard-Dempsey bout was picked. J. O. Bannon of New York will be Dempsey's timekeeper. Tex Rickard made a payment of $30,000 to the Toledo Boxing com- mission today. This is part of the per cent of the fight proceeds that will be given to Toledo chart ties, Rickard estimates that more than $30,000 more will be paid after the fight. Hotel bellhops will ‘make al almost Sa much out of it as Willard. "yy CTS Wag