Evening star., 1912-11-17
CARPENTER ALL IN
Defeat Due to Arrant Folly of
His Advisers.
TOO MUCH HARD TRAINING
French Fighters Vitality Slapped by
Constant and Strenuous
Work.

LONDON, November 14.-BoXing cir
cles in England and on the continent are
still humming with talk about the defeat
OF Georges Carpenter by Billy Papke. for
the Illinois youth shattered an idol and
there Us weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth In Gay Paree." But really
there was nothing at all surprising in the
result, for Carpenter, to all who viewed
his recent form through unprejudiced
pebbles has been on the down grade for
a year or more, and when Frank Klaus
beat him at Dieppe it was obvious that
he was going stale. His vitality had been
sapped by constant training and he was
for all the world like the willing horse
worked to death.
II ever a boxer of the highest promise
was absolutely ruined Carpenter Is the
man. He is monument to the arrant
folly of his advisers, VINO MADE match
after match for him when he should
have been building up his constitution In
stead of weakening his unset and unde-
veloped muscles by jumping from one
fight of hard training for another. Inc
human frame was bound to kick, and II
has kicked Carpenter out of future reck-
cning altogether. He can never be the
realization of his early promise. For
growing youth still in his teens and op-
viously built on lines that would carry
fore he had passed the manhood stage, 1t
was nothing short of madness to allow
him to fight against his natural develop
ment.
All Cut and Dried.
the French boys admirers had his VIC
tory over Papke all cut and dried long
before the contest. They had been
soothed and cheered by reports that
papke had been handing out some awful
stuff in the American ring, and they rea-
soned for themselves that as Marcel
Moreau had stood fifteen rounds with the
Illinois boxer and as Klaus had stopped
Mereau in four rouneis. Is was dead easy
money for the Partisan Carpenter
should never have gone Into the ring at
the middleweight limit. Papke didn t.
ana he sacrificed his thousand-dollar for
felt, but he won the match for Keeping
that extra pound on his bones. A long
course of massage before huge fires near
II sweated the Frenchman to death and
he sat on the scales like man half dead.
Nor could he eat on the afternoon OF
the contest, and from the first tinkie OF
the gong Papke was fighting winning
battle Carpenter showed no great
speed: his blows were less harmful than
if he had struck the American with a
| roll OF paper; they were iil-timed, too.
and his footwork was ponderous from
start TO finish The wonder is that he
| lasted through seventeen rounds, and 1t
was only his natural pluck and dogged-
| ness that kept him up so far.
Papke in Good Form.
| 1t is not sought to belittle Papke's sue
cess in any way. for he fought better
than he has ever done on this side. His
style is not the poetry of motion, nor
would it inspire q word artist to any
classic outburst, but he never lost an
opportunity of getting one home. and all
| the time his sharp. incisive uppercuts on
| body and jaw were reducing Carpenter
| to the state of prostration which made
! him unable to come up for the eighteenth
round. Carpenter has, paid the penalty
| OF his desire to get rich quickly. and II
! will occasion no surprise II he now falls
| be drawn out against some second-rate
performer. The pity of it all. for Car
penter promised so much.
! And all this means that the long-await
ed match between Carpenter and Bonn
bardier Wells is now out of the question
During the past few weeks the Bombar
! dier has been as close as an oyster about
| his future plans, but he has booked him
! self for one bout in Paris, and as England
has no heayyweights worth their salt
| ii is highly probable that he will cross
| the Atlantic again, where Jim Flynn an6
! Al PalZer will be glad to keep him busy
| Two heavyweight aspiran.s, Bill Chase
| and Tom Crowler, We're in the ring a,
| the National Sporting Club last week, but
| 1t was joke. They Topped and fioun-
/ dered about in a way that caused the
| audience to roar with mirth. Chase was
was on the boards, and a wag suggested
that he did it to prevent the staggering
| Cowler from getting up to continue. Pef
| haps he did.