New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-12
CARPENTER WORKED OUT
Defeat Due to Arrant Folly of
His Advisers.
TOO MUCH HARD TRAINING
Bombardier Wells Silent About
\ Plans-Hughie Niche
gan's Style.
From The Tribune. Correspondent

London, Nov. 1.-BoXing circles in Eng
land and on the Continent are still hum
ming with talk about the defeat OF
Georges Carpenter by Billy Papke, for
the Illinois youth shattered an idol and
and there IS weeping and wailing and
gnashing Of teeth in gay Paree.' But
really there waY nothing at all surpris-
ing in the result for Carpenter TO all
who viewed his recent form through un-
prejudiced pebbles has been on the
down Craze for year or more. and
when Frank Klaus beat him at Dieppe
1t was obvious that he was going stale.
His vitality had been sapped by constant
training ana he was for all the world
like the willing horse worked TO death.
If ever a boxer Of the highest promise
was absolutely ruined Carpenter is the
man. He is a monument 10 the arrant
folly of his advisers, who made match
after match for him, when he should
have been building up his constitution
instead Of weakening his unset and UNI
developed muscles by jumping from one
fight into hard training for another.
The human frame was bound TO kick.
and / have an idea ii has kicked Car
pentier out of future reckoning alto
gethcr. He can never be the realization
of his early promise For a growing
youth still in his teens and obviously
built on lines that would carry him
bang into the heavyweight class before
he had passed the manhood stage il was
nothing short of madness to allow him
to fight against his natural development.
The French boys admirers had his
victory 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
stun 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 Moreau I'm four rounds, 1t was
dead easy money for the Partisan. Car
pentier should never have gone into the
ring at the middleweight limit Papkc
didn't, and he sacrificed his $1,000 forfeit
but he won the match for keeping that
Of massage before huge fires nearly
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 unkle Of the
gong Papke was nghting winning battle.
Carpenter showed no great speed, his
blows were less harmful than If he had
struck the American with roll OF paper
they were ill-timed, too. and HIS foot
work was ponderous from start 10 finish.
The wonder is that he lasted through
seventeen rounds, and II was only his nat
ural pluck and doggedness that kept him
up go far.
I do not wish TO belittle Papkes success
In any way, for he fought better than
ne has ever done on this side. His style
is not the poetry OF motion. nor would
II inspire word artist to any classic
outburst, but he never lost an oppor-
tunity 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 tho eighteenth
round Carpenter has paid the penalty
OF his desire to get rich quickly, and II
will occasion no surprise II he now falls
into the pit of obscurty occasionally to
be drawn out against some second rate
performer. The pity Of II all, for Car
pentier promised so much
And ali this means that the long
awaited match between Carpenter and
Bombardier Wells Is now out of the qu"s-
ton. During the past few weeks the
Bombardier has been as close as an oyster
about his future plans, but he has booked
himself for one bout I'm Paris, and as
we have no heavyweights worth their
salt, 1t is highly probable that he VIII
cross the Atlantic again, where, we are
tod here Jim Flynn and Al Palzer VIII
DO glad to keep him busy. Two heavy
weight aspirants, Bill Chase and Tom
Cowler were in the ring at the National
Sporting Club this week, but 1t was a
Joke They Topped and floundered about
IN n way that caused the audience TO
roar with .nirth. Chase was disqualified
for hitting Cowler when he was on the
boards. and wag suggested that he
did il to prevent the staggering Cowler
from getting up to continue. Perhaps
he did.
Jim Sullivan, a victim OF both Papke
and Carpenter, IS after Papke Tor sec
ond match. but nobody is getting the
least bit excited at the sudden desire or
the BermonGsey youth TO yindicate his
claims TO middleweight honors.
At the moment of writing the big line
I'm the bill Of future contests here Is the
Matt Wells and Freddie Welsh bout for
The lightweight championship and Ions
dale belt, which takes place at the Ma
tional Sporting club on Monday, Novem-
Der II. Stakes and purse money amount
to about s. 900, and both men are mighty
keen. Wells's display against Michigan
the Australian, a few weeks ago, was
not inspiring, and though Welsh easily
outpointed Jack I.angford, the American
lightweight, In a fifteen-round go nj lslV-
erpool this week. the work of our two
crack lightweiehts I'm the last year had
heen sufficiently in and out to divide
opinions pretty evenly. / have not seen
welsh for long time. but ! should not
he SURPRISED to find him regaining the
title.
Mention OF Hughe Michigan prompts
me TO tell you something Of the style Of
this bundle OF Australian stone, for, II
memory serves me rightly, he has not yet
eeured on your side. You know some
thing of the crouching style OF boxing,
hut the Michigan smother up is the
last word in this modern development OF
r,n.,craft Michigan started his career