The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-19
Kid Mccoy Tells Richard, Frenehman
is the Fastest Heavyweight
In the Busi-
ness.
A WONDERFUL FIGHTER
Can Think Fast and Has the Neees-
sary Punch, Says Former Boxer
Is Clean
Liver.

ever meets Jess Willard, the world 5
champion Will get a drubbing. Nc
Coy, perhaps the foxiest boxer that
ever walked to the center, is great
admirer of the dashing Frenchman.
Mccoy sat with Tex Richard off in
a corner of the Waldorf and told the
tall Texan that the championship OF
the world might change hands If VIII
lard and the idol CT Paris meet.
s.Tex II, tell you why think Car
pentier will whip Willard" said Nc
Coy. Georges is the speediest big
man in the world, and speed is the
thing that will beat the fellow with
bulk and weight Moran didn't have
it and Carpenter has. / watched
Carpenter from the beginning, and
I'll tell you right now that he is the
most resourceful fighter that ever
knew OF boxed with. He is amazing
" fast, a perfect marvel Of action.
and he has two wonderful hands.
Can Think Fast.
81 know he'll drop Willard at least
once in the fight. You know all the
heady punches haven't been used yet.
He'll find a way to bring WillSrd
down He can't think as fast as Car
penier, am sure of that. I've watch
ed both men fight. Willard was new.
er in the same class with this French
boy.
Il saw him flatten Joe Jeanette.
twice in their fight in Paris with
short right handed punches. Joe was
floored as cleanly as any man eve-
was. Little inside right handlers.
mind YOU: punches that / had shown
him.
'If you get him to come here I am
going with him, and IL you don't soc
big Willard kicking on the floor then
shoot me for wild sweet potato,
that's ALL l know what the boy is
capable OF
Hes not a middle-weight. Don't
let anyone tell you that. He weighed
179 or 18G pounds the night he
fought Gunboat Smith in London. He
knocked the gunner sprawling in one
of the rounds. You may be in doubt
about the finish Of that fight. The
Frenchman was winning, mind you.
Going bingtty bang. when he sud-
denly missed and the force of the
muff spun him around three times
at least.
'He was whisked off his pins. He
went down on his hands and knees,
spread out like a crawfish, and the
bewildered Smith made as il to hit
him with a left and finally brought
his right down on Carpenters neck.
The referee promptly disqualified the
gunner And, let me tell you, it was
the luckiest thing that ever happened
to Smith.
Paris Adores Him.
They're mad about him in Paris.
It's a wonder that their admiration
has not turned his head. But it
hasn't He's a clean liver, brave, and
the fastest big man that ever put up
his hands. I repeat that his speed
will offset anything any big man ever
had. Carpenter certainly weighs
more than 100 pounds now He is
growing all the time, and it is fool
ish to think that he is not in condi
ton. He's been out In the open for
two years, living on army rations,
and il you don't think that they will
harden you, why you'd better try
little whirl on the border as / did.
Il admire Carpenter. / had the
honor OF lifting him into his first air
plane. I've been saying little pray
er for him ever since and I'm not
over-churchly. Carpenter doesn't
know what fear means. Remember
that You'll notice that with all the
luxury and money in the world before
him he was one Of the first to offer
his life to his country. Gees he's n
great kid. They'll go crazy over him
here