Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20
DILLON WILL PROBABLY
MEET FRENCH FIGHTER
Practically Certain He Will Be Next Ameri-
can to Measure Blows With Car
pentier Gossip.
BY T. s. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, August 16-
1t is very probable that Jack Dillon, the
! Indianapolis middleweight. will be the
next American to clash with the French
champion, Georges Carpenter, the COM
ing fall, negotiations now being on for
a match between the two, to take place
in Paris some time in October The
talk about CARPENTER being matched
,, with AL Palzer and Jack Johnson seems
to be somewhat of joke. Descamp,
manager of the Frenchman, may not be
up to American methods of managing
boxers, but he is just wise enough to
know that Carpenter is too light for
such big fellows as Johnson and Palzer,
for he has just signed up to have his
champion meet Bombardier Wells in
return match before the National Sport
a guarantee of 15,000-which is some
coin for twenty-round bout between
these men. Wells seems to be back in
the good graces Of some of the British
the F'renchman for q second meeting.
but the odds would favor Carpenter
again. He has defeated the Englishman
once. and knows his weak point, and
the indica tons are that he will repeat,
although there is always chance for
a slip. Should Dillon meet Carpenter
before the Wells match, there might be
need of changing the program, for the
Indianapolis boy is very liable to upset
the dope by beating the Frenchman.
Dillon has come along at rapid pace
the past year, and there are no middle
weights in the world today who have any
license to win over him in limited
round bout except by outpointing him.
II the French champion should make
anywhere near 100 pounds for Jack he
will know that he has fight on his
hands. and he will have the lighter man
to face at that. Jack Johnson tried to
get on with Carpenter. but the French
boxing federation frowned upon the
proposition: in fact, the federation has
been handing the colored man anything
but the cordial reception he imagined
he would receive. once he landed on
French SOIL
A letter from Charlie Calvin, the
American promoter, who is in Paris,
states that Jack Johnson. being unable to
get on boxing match there, has ar
ranged to stage a wrestling match with
Constant La Marin, who styles himself
worlds champion catch-as-catch-can
wrestler. for the title and purse Won
der what Frank Gotch will say now.
just imagine Johnson and the French
man pulling off stunt of that kind and
getting away with 1t! Well as long as
Gotch don't mind and Jack Herman don't
know anything about 1t, they may get
through. Charlie goes on to say that
from California, who has been In Paris
for the past five years. off and on, has
just returned from his tour of Australia,
and the chances are he is planning
future. for they both need the money.
McVey may have some trouble get
ting started, as Victor Breyer, the
French promoter, holds a judgment
against Sam for 10000 francs. and he
will want to see something before he
stands aside. 1t may be the means of
bringing the two colored men together.
weight, who did not fight up to his
standard the. past few months Of his
campaign last spring, has decided to get
down to business now and prepare for
busy time this fall. Eddie has had
good rest among the northern pines and
is still working with Rudy Unholz. and
they are endeavoring to get match with
Jack Dillon at Denver for Labor day,
but that will likely fall through. An
other match they are after Is with Bob
McAllister .at San Francisco. McGoorty
was to have met the winner of the Nc
Allister-Petroskey bout the other night.
but the fact that II was a draw and
good fight may result in another match
between the two. in which event Eddie
will have to wait. McGoorty realizes now
that he must get back into the first rank,
otherwise he will not be the money-mak-
er he was last year when he started the
season. There is no reason why he should
not be at the top of the list, for he has
everything that goes to make great
Observation-Disclosures. height, strength,
cleverness and hitting power. Eddie
needs some more of the roughing end of
the game, and he will probably do bet
ter. A match between the Oshkosh boy
and Dillon should be a treat, for both
are about on a level now, and anxious
to cop of the coveted middleweight title.
They have Frank Klaus and Jimmy
Clabby to contend with, and it looks now
as though Bob McAllister OF California
will come along and prove contender,
in which case the race for the honor
will be all the more interesting.
Carl Morris. the Oklahoma bunch Of
beef, has placed himself once more in
the limelight of the fistic clans. having
handed out sleep potion to that ter
ribie bear. Freddie Mckay. who styles
himself New York policeman. Mckay
was also an expert at the Japanese art of
wrestling and from all accounts he had
better stick to the wrestling game and