The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-14
Cunboat Smith Compares Merits Of
Dempsey and Carpenter for Champ

san Francisco, Dec ta.--concur-
/ rent with the news received mere to-
day that Georges Carpenter. Euro
pean champion. has challenged Jack
Dempsey. world champion for
fight for the worlds heavyweight
titlc. Gunboat Smith, who has fought
both men, made the following state
raent.
Il hope Jack Dvrn peey. In agreeing
to this match, with Georges Carpen-
tier does not run away with the idea
that he has An easy mark. He hasn L
. 1 have fought both men, and let me
SAY that Carpenter hit me harder
/ with his right than | have ever oeen
! hi. Ey any other fighter In the world.
That goes for Dempsey. whom ! have
/ boxed twice.
Carpenter is a young fellow. He
csirt be more than twenty five or
1wcnty-six. Dempsey has never met
/ n real young fellow You can't take
il away from him that he has done
h. best he could with lot of poor
material But. going right down the
line. whom of any Importance has
Dempsey has ever beaten? Jess VII
lard why, they needed derrick
10 get him in the ring at Toledo. And
even at his very best he was no
aetter. know. fought him
II csc other fellows Dempsey beat
w1o were they9 Why ! could check
MY clutches at the box office and
bea, most OF them myself. There
WASH, single rugged, healthy ngnt-
ing y ungster in the lot
dempsey has never raet a fighter
quite like this Carpenter. He liz &C
tive on his feet, jumps around ike
cat and has the most peculiar style
CT d icking I've ever seen. He al
most orags his face on the canvas. he
ducks SO low.
RULED Off FOR FOUL
That's how ! happened to lose
on tho foul to him when we fought in
IIaI~ He had been pulling that duck
on me so much l decided ia Just bust
HIM one when he bent over next
time hit him one--not a very
/ hard punch. ] tbink---and he went
down / thought it was one more OF
those dashed ST him again. / didn't
ait him. The pictures show ! missed
hin. foot But Descamps, his man
aeer jumped into the ring, claimed his
man was down when hit at him
ana I was ruled off for foul.
billy Mlske. the st Paul heavy
weight ALWAYS keeps bout even with
Dempsey wnen they box. Carpenter
would knoc6 Miske out. | tell YOU
. .hat right hand of his is poison. Demp-
can MT a. Vf26ly a R1HNo 80 ttbt
iFreneuman
And don't imagine that right hand
~ all thts great Freachmau has either
f4r uses his left to jolt and lab, It's
wicked Jah. too--one OF, those that
raise lit1e bumps on your face when
they land And fas'' He is in and out
in and out, all the slime.
Understand, ! ara great admirer
% Jack Dempsey. He is the most Won
in Ypv WI
ana my first opinion ts that he can beat
i Carpenter. I'm great u stlckier for
nrSt lunches but for all that the bout
would be p wonderful one. | suppose
! Inc arht will be for twenty rounds.
! Dempsey has never some half that far,
I Carpenter has never fought anything
Gre but twenty round boutF. or course,
! It IL not Dcmpsey's fault that his firhts
! have not gone any distance, You have
! Ia hand 1t to him for ending every one
Of them in rapid order
But Dempsey isn't going to stop
/ Carpenter with the same speed he fiat
! tened every one from Al Norton to
Jess willard
F'HENrHMAN IL GAME.
THAT Frenchman - game. He ooE
the count from Bomhardier Wells and
came back and knocked the English
man dead. They thought ii a huke
/ victory. SO they rernatched them Wells
got his aeain-and faster than the
first time. ,
I Dempsey in a way was lucky Fl ?
7 came along at ii tune when the night
I rame had a mighty rLnk assortment OF
+ heavyweights. Even Fred Fulton Is a
ehump. I think. No punch from Full
ton would knock me off my feet
+ DEMPSEY. know. car take a punch. In
my fight with him In san Antonio
! hit him as hard on the chin as I ever
I hit any man T}ut I could not put him
away He said afterward he was daged
for several minutes~-but he certainly
didn't fight like il,
Summing up. II say Dempsey
ought to win. I'll not be surprised II
the Frenchman does, and Tn inclined
To think the fight viii 90 TO the limit
tTlt not say that Carpenter viii hi
Dempsey any harder than | did IN my
first meeting with him. And the Demp
sey l hit was mere boy, with little OF
no ring experience or generaiship. Th'
Dempsey Carpenter will meet IL
worlds champion. who has made goot
against every one re has meta sorr!
lot. II is true. and none the equal o
the Frenohman. but for all that IN
! best we had to offer Dempsey vii
likely nave plenty OF condolences
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