Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-14
FIGHT FAILS TO SHOW
CARPENTERS ABILITY
Blew Into New York After Fight
With Cold on His Chest and
Bankroll in His Jeans.
DS WESTRlt0OK PEGLER.
lnitcd NcNa SfaN Gorrcunnn dc II

united News stan Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Oct. l3-Battli.g
l.evinsky was such wabbly et-up
for Georges Carpenter that the fight
rams in the big town are st!ll match
ing pennies for an answer to the
question: Can Carpenter fight and.
Georges wheezcd into New York
from his training quarters at Sum.
mitt, y j.. The morning after the
hSht with a cold in his .;urgid chest
hcmg acquisitions OF that busy quar-
ter OF an hour In the cool OF tho
evening at the Jersey City baseball
park, in which he knocked Levinsky
for home run with the bases full.
He swejled around the Claridge lobby
for while with Francois Dcs-
champs, his manager. and then
dritted upstairs to knead his bosom
with a lotion OF turpcntine to cure
tho cold
Deschamps had no end Of mad
on because the people weren't giving
his boy credit for tremendous feat
OF hs;icuGs in beating the patriarchal
Kept Jnw opcn.
All the papers here commented on
The fact that Carpenter fought with
his left arm held low and his left
Jaw wide open TO any stray boxing
gloves that might have been flying
about in the chill night air For a
fact. Carpenters jaw had sign on
il. Hit Me" all through that fight.
and the fact tina; he didn't get hit
WAS more to LcvinsKy's discredit
than Carpenters credit. Robert
World. implies that If carpentier
ever missed n swing at Jack Demp-
sey as he missed swings at I1evinSky.
Dempsey would lean into the opening
and spin him halfway back to
France with one punch.
Carpenter certainly lived up TO his
twenty-four shceting as a pretty
Boxer and relentless attackev. but
any fGhtcr of any class ut all would
have whaled Levinsky as ne showed
n tina, battle. The battier looked
cheap as an order OF beans. lie was
awkward. laundering whenever he
missed one OF his tinid leads. And
ne had very bad case OF buck fever.
killer that had been built up arouni
tho Frenchman. In the end Carpen-
't"r snvaeely brushed aside Bats eN-
isndea LEI; arm, which was the
RATS feeble right cross and chopped
him repeatedly on the jaw with tha.
overland right.
l~vinsky didn't give him hEh,, so
real abilities than +, did before.
To all OF this. Deschamps takes ex-
guard aEains; Levinsky." the keen
eyed manager sputtered. Against
Dempsey ne fight n dlce-ent way.
One time he ask Levlnsky 10 hect him
because he know LAvinsky cannot
hurt him. But he Will no; let Derp-
gey beet him He will knock ou,
Dempsey IN four rounds"
Deschanps received an offer from
Ton Andrews, o. Milwaukee. 20 fight
Harry Greh out there. hut he didn't
ta!nk much OF Greb as an opponent,
and so turned down the match He
piso heard some rash talk on behalf
81 Nike O'Dowd and Ted Kid" Lewis
and offered TO have Georges knock
them out in the came ring any morn
ing between 3 and e:l5 OF the clock
Carpenter Is going 10 do another
motion picture In New York and Will!
remain here for about two months al
together His contract with Charles
u Cochran. OF London. binding him
rot 10 fight Dempsey except under
Coch:an's auspices. expires IN the lat
ter part OF December. after which
III will he free TO sign for the Denp-
sew battle under American handling
* But DcschamDs wants half o. the
gate money and says he will not lot
the lad step into the ring with Demp-
sew for cent less.
NO seexty.forty" he protested
rght. Carpenter IS the attraction
~" Is mooody. Observation-Disclosures
r And that made pretty near four