The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24
Carpentier Has
 Twenty Styles Of
 Fighting, Curley
By JACK cURLEY

On, ye crltlcS!
 Last Tuesday night at Jersey City Georges Carpenter doffed his hat to the American public and promptly and decisively knocked out Battling" Levinsky. f
 One has to read very carefully the account of Tuesday nights battle to discover this fact-because the eyes of the critics were on the contest, but the minds on a Carpentier-D Dempsey match.
 And no fight expert. no matter how experty, can draw on his imagination to do justice to Carpenter by com parison, mainly because 1t was Bat ting" Levinsky facing the French man and not Jack Dempsey.
 However, the question, Can Car pentier fight?' has been answered, and "Yes, he can," as the unanimous reply. Just as though Georges were "a novice that some one located out in the bushes. His record. including his fights with Papke, Smith. Klaus. Wells. Jeanette and Beckett counted for naught. The favorable reports from American. fight managers like O'Rourke, George Engle, Dan Mo Ketrick, Jim Buckley, all who saw him in action in Europe amounted to mill,
 Can he fight?" The question was uppermost
 And so Carpenter stepped into the ring with Levinsky. Thirty thousand spectators thronged the Jersey City ball park to witness the event. Each and every one knew that he came to witness the Carpener-Levinsky match.N Each and everyone knew it was Levin sky and not Dempsey. who was slated to oppose Carpenter. Each and every one left the park perfectly satisfied that Carpenter defeated Levinsky. and beat him in true man-o'-war style. Yet, the echo of all criticism Is what about Dempsey; proving that the eyes were on Carpentier-L r-Levinsky, while the mind worked fast and furious on Carpen. tier Dempsey match.
 I came away from the ringside ab- solutely satisfied with the Frenchman's performance. and more convinced than ever that he has more than an even chance to defeat Jack Dempsey. I base my belief on the following:
 Carpentier has twenty styles of fighting. He can fight boxer and box fighter. He can punch and punch hard. He is fast. He is clever. He can take the offensive. and if crowded or in danger can properly defend himself. He knows how to feint, and after making an opening can take advantage of same in lightning speed. In plain words. he thinks quick ly and knows every trick of the game
 The majority of the fans watched Carpentier with skeptical eyes. Mental suggestion. always big factor. where one opines on matters fistic. was all against the Frenchman. Mostly they left the ringside criticising Carpen- tiers open style. They forgot that the bout started out with Carpenter tightly covered. and not until he served Levinsky severa courses of rip-roaring smashessto body and head. not till he beat him into state of helplessness did Georges ven ture his open style. taking chances. ii fact disregarded Levinsky's punches
 What would Dempsey do to him? That was the constant mental and oral query as Geofges was observed leaving him self wide open?
 My answer is that Dempsey would do nothing to Carpenter because the French fighter wucld not be wide open
 He has twenty styles and he wouls adopt one of the others.
 Remember my prediction arrived al after carefully studying both men.
 Georges Carnentier will be the next worlds champion.