The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-11
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Sporting Fans Anxiously
Await Opponent for
Jack Dempsey.

New York. July l0.-who next for
Dempsey Frank Moran comes for
ward with a bid for a twenty-round
bout. Moran Is making a more Sc
rious bid for publicity than he is
for fight. since he knows that he
would be a joke in the ring with
Dempsey and that no promoter
would risk plugged nickel on such
match. What about Georges Car
pentier. whom Jack Kearns favors.
for the next match for Dempsey?
Carpenter would be even worse
than Moran. In his palmiest days
the French champion was not a
strong and robust fighter. The best
thing he ever did was to stop glass
jawed Bombardier Wells As a mid
dle-weight Carpenter was knocked
out by half-conditioned Frank Klaus
and by Billy Papke. Mike O'Dowd.
who saw Carpenter in France, says
he did not like the Frenchman's
complexion and his glowing eyes.
There is report that Carpenter has
lung trouble. We would not back
Carpenter even against ODowd.
Against Dempsey. Carpenter would
be in danger of mortal injury. Car
pentier's manager never will permit
his man to face the new champion.
What of Joe Beckett the new
champion of England? Here is a
man weighing 196 pounds, standing
5 feet Z inches in his stocking feet.
Not a bad match physically. Beckett
/ has a punch. but Frank Goddard, a
novice, knocked him out so many
months ago. A Dempsey-B Beckett
I match would be worth while any
way.
/ What about Fatty Meehan, who
| got the decision over Dempsey in a
| four-round bout in San Francisco
last winter? Billy Gibson. who has
Meehan in tow. already has entered
bid for match, with an eye 10
an eight-round contest in Newark
on Labor Day. Such a bout would
| attract close to 100000 persons and
would outdo the Toledo scrap as a
| financial proposition. We do not
take Meehan seriously. He has nc
! punch and we do not think that he
could stand up against Dempsey
for even two rounds. We do not
take the San Francisco bout seri-
ously. and anyway Dempsey defend
| ing the championship would be a far
different proposition from Dempsey
| putting up an exhibition for a war
fund. Meehan would be slaughtered
by Dempsey.
However, Meehan might do as
well as anybody else. and if the
| fight public in this section mu st
have sight of Dempsey in a
championship bout Meehan might
fill the bill. But there must be no
attempt to gouge the public out ,of
all proportion to the possibilities OF
the tight. Tex Richards experience
in Toledo should be a warning TO
| ether boxing promoters.
Talk of another Dempsey-Miskc
| fight must be banished. Miske said
| the other night in Toledo that he
never would enter the ring again
| with the new champion. "Ie hits
who confidcd to a friend that he
did not think he could go half q
round with Dempsey.
q The negro contingent must be
counted out of the running since
Dempsey has drawn the color line
At that. not one OF - Negro
! heavy now in the ring
would have a chance arSinst tbs
! champion. Sam Lapgford was
! forced to quit by Fulton and is
! through. Harry Wills would be
punched into submission in spite
| of his cleverness. Kid Norfolk
! would not do. Bill Tate. the fourth
! OF the list, was Dempsey's CHIEF
/ sparring partner and suffered sew
/ eral knockouts in camp at Toledo