Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-14
''GUNBOAT' SMITH LOYAL
SUPPORTER OF DEMPSEY
Believes Fight Will Go Limit and
30 Georges Carpenter Is
81 -. Dangerous.
SAYS CHAMPION LUCKY MAN
Popular Heavyweight Boxer Admits
That Frcnchman Will Prove Tough
B est Proposition Ever Faced by Title
Holder.
fBy Universal Service !

SAN FRANCISCO. Fec. lS.-Concur-
rent with the news received here TO-
I day that Georges Carpenter, European
! champion. has challenged Jack Dcmp-
/ sey, world champion. Tor tight for
* he.+worlds heavyweirht itle' Gunooat
\ Smith, who has fought both men, made
/ the following statement:
u hope Jsck Dempsey, in agreeing
i to this match. With Georges Carpcn-
Z tier, does not run away with the idea
that he has an easy marx lie hasn't.
i have fought both men and let me say
B that Carpenter hit me harder with his
right than have ever been hit by
any, other fighter in the world. That
COOS for Dempsey, whom have boxed
twice.
cant be more than Twenty-Five or
y twunty-slX. Dempsey has mover met a
real young fellow You cant take 1t
rial. But. going right down the line.
whom of any Importance has Dempsey
! they needed a dcrrick'to got him in the
= ring at Toledo. And even a. his very
best he was no fighter. ] know. |
y fought him. Those other fellows
could check my crutches at the box
Office and beat most Of them myself:
lighting younSStcr in the lot.
= Carpenter Ducks We'll.
Dempsey has never met a tighter
quite like this Carpenter. lie is &C
tive on his feet, jumps around ike a
Z cat and has the most peculiar style of
ducking Eve ever seen. lie almos.
drags his face on tho canvas, he ducks
so low. That is how happened TO
lose on the foul 10 him when we fought
"He had been pulling that duck on
( me so much ] decided ia just bust him
ONE when he ben, over next time ] hit
1 him onc--not very hard punch
ahink-and he went down. / thought it
was one more of.thqse and dashed at him
S again. I ddn'; hitahim. The pictures
SHOW l missed. him = foot. Bu, Des-
8 camps his mana ger, jumped into the
! ring. claimed his man was down when
hit at him and l was ruled off for
foul.
,'Biny Miskc, the ST. Paul heavy
weight, always keeps about even with
. Dempsey when they box. Carpenter
I would knock Miskc out. tel 70"
seS can't hit as deadly punch as the
i FTenchman.
- Right Hand Active; ,o,a
"And don't imagine that right hand
is, all this great Frenchman has either
He uses his left TO jolt and jab. It's
wicked jab. too-one OF those that raise
LITTLE bumps on your race &c W., when nu, ,hS ~
9'understa nd, am great admtrer
of,jaek DEMPSEY; He,is the e, most los Won won
and my FIRST opinion is that he can bea t
csrpsntier: Tn great striker for
first hgnehcs but for all that the bout
II suppose the fight will be for
twenty rounds, Dempsey has never
gone f hslf that FAR Ca GarP pen has
round bouts. OF course, 1t is not Demp-
! scy's fault that his lights have not
gone any distance. You have 10 hand
tito him for ending every one of them
inrapid order.
rBut Dempsey isn't going to stop
CARPENTER with the same speed he nat
n nr.n Inc &C
Willard That Frcnchman is game. He
to9'3 the count from lsomhardier Wells
victory. so they re matched them Wells
time 't'a'' ''e ~ ; !
Dempsey Was Lucky.
E'Dempsey in way was lucky. He
+ came aiorS al a time when the night
game had a mighty punk assortment
y chump, | think. No punch :rom Ful-
5 ton would knock me OF MY feet. De,np-
4 sey. l knew. can take punch. In my
him as hard on the 'thin as eve. hi
any man. But l'-"c o,fd not pu, him
away. He said afterward he was dazed
didr;t Ss,s ,!ilhutes-but he certainly
.'summins up lii say Dempsey ouEh,
70 WIZ III not be surprised Il the
think the fight will 20 TO the lin i ~
XII not say that Carpenter wiIl IN ~,
hD rst any harder than | did in my
n uaS, meeting with him. And the Denim,
a osy 1 n ~, was mere boy with little
;rho No 3 Ing experience or generalship.
inc inc penpsey that Carpenter will NEE,
ssaa worlds champion, who has MI
aorrY ans, IN every one ne has met mel
e1IaI ioi; u Is true. and none the
w sHIat ne best We had to offer' Dem a.
IN onas K .e,s 5 haye nen;y of conGdencs
poneps ' ne doesn't under rate his on.
insomr c ooE ! want the title to ren,oin