The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11
CBy James J corbett.s Former THes v
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Special to the lFarn1er-9 W
 New york. July 1a--sT'11e. cFeorgea Car pentier-cunboat Smith match is the pugilfstic feature for the co1niItg week. l Tone5on stages tfnis battle sziso- Fol- l lowing so closely the big ltgatW elsnL l international championship contest U would not have been sazrpr1sfng naa this match suffered from lack of in ] that the two big felovVs are attrFs - ling considerable attentt5r rom Eng fish devotees of the sport.
 I few days ago attention " as called to an interview puba1 shed In I an Fng1ish newspaper In which Car pentier relieved hinseIf Of few per- Itinent remarks regarding hisN chance9 of defeating the Eunboat Judging l from the tone of the talk GeorEee is 1 a very confident youth, or a. cpnceited has strained longer and more ith- fully for this match than for any other in which he has ever engaEed i we can hardly credit some of the statements in the public interview According to Carpentier the Gun boat is a hard hitter but altogether too slow to amount to much in the 1 hrhtirg line. Therefore with his QCar- Ipen4ter's) superior science and great i speed the result Of the bout ia a foregone conclusion Of course Ezltn his numerous advantages the pa tile can end in only one fashion-a Carr l pentier victory. That IS the way Georges tells it.
 Nowadays speed in the prize ring l is measured by a different stand ard than in former years A gsueiation lago a boxer who was called fast gem l leraI1v could step around pr etty lively. l Gunboat Smith, according othe stsr-s lizards of few decades back, would mot De considered much in the speed lline, but as they cornpS1te speed today I he is not So far below fhe average. | If Carpentier gets in the ring with Gunner thinking Smith can't move around fast enough to get a punch lover occasionally he Is going to be before the f1rst round is over. While Gunboat may not be able to step around as fast as a master of the mod ern dances he Is far rom being the slow -rnoying clumsy plodder the Britt ish papers have been pictur1ng him. Admitting CaEpentier to bs more sraerl- tff1cs he had better not talxe liberties with the Gunner under the impression that the latter is slow moving dndi- lridua1. when smith gets a chance Ito put his famous right over he can i whip it across with as little less of time as anyone in the game at the present time And he doesn't waste any unnecessary steps in the opera ton either. The wild and reckless swinging that characterized his work i ly disappeared. Tn recent battles. par 1 tfcuIarly those with Jim Flynn and Sam Langford. the Gunboat surprised the fans by his skill and straight hit ting Smith is a better boxer than some of his eariier exhibitions indI- cate.
 The Gunboat has al style pretty much his ovn-as nearly avery great lighter has Not that T. am going on record lthat he is a great ring man ;1le hasn't t1nf inality of method. which is something, l and in his case very effective method it has proven solar in his career l I doubt if Carpenter has the sta- I nina to weather twenty rounds with 1 the hard hitting Gunner. No doubt he has a fair knowledge of boxing and lean punch moderately hard. but past I performances do not indicate that he l is either the gamkst or the sturdfest I boxer in the game While a ma jor- l his comparatively poor exhibitions \ with Frank Klaus and Billy Parke at their face value on account of G5eor- I ges' alleged youth and inexperience it must be remembered that Carpenter has been boxing number of years now, Tn fact, he Is veteran com pared with the Gunboat He start ed as a bantanweight eight years ago i and has fought in all divisions up to 1.-the Heavyweight class. When ex-
 
 sI referred to, lack of experience was 4 given as the old alibf But Georges cant plead that any longer. A boxer Eswlo has been in the game profession ally for eight years. is far from g nov
 Unless Carpentier makes running match out of 1t look for the Gun boat to come home the winner, and l with a knockout. About fifteen rounds is the limit I would put on the
  for the full twenty rounds without get Il ting in the way of a few of the lat ter1s danger projectiles will be ready to take my hat off and class him as And. by the way, over in Paris that's what they think he is right now- Can you Imagine an offer of S30, 900 purse for a match between Carp pentier and Young Ahearn, the Brooklyn box CT? Why, Ahearn couldn't get steady work on this side. although always Irated as fairly good performer. And 1t is as much due to Ahearn,t per- formance since he has been abroad that the offer was forthcoming as to i Carpenters reputation as a box of fee attraction.
 With all this frenzfed competition for bouts it begins to look as if those American boxers Snowy Baker induc- ed to go to Australia. will come hack home via. England. Eddie McGoorty in particular, ought to command a re- spectable purse in London right now Eddie is we'll and favorab1y known in England and could command fat purses for his services if he were here while the going is good Now
 that he has about played out the string in Australia I expect to hear any day that Edward has packed his
 <eister and shipped for Merrie Eng land.
 But the Ahearn noise is what shocks me Ahearn operated around New York for four or five years and earned the title of the Dancing Master as a result of the methods he employed in lnnatches When the going would get