The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-19
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HEADIEST BOXER
SAYS COCHRANE
Thinks With a Split Second
Motion, But May Be Too
Light to Beat Dempsey.
Learned Game From Us.

NEW YORK. Jan. l9.-Georges Car
penAier is the headiest fighter in the
ring today, Take Charles Cochrane's
word for il.
What's more, Carpenter isn't under
rating Jack Dempsey for a minute. He
knows all about Jack and realizes what
he will go up against when he faces
the worlds champion.
Cochrane has netting but praise for
Carpenter. He admireS the great
trenchman for what he is, but admira-
ton has not gotten the better of the
British promoters judgment. He
doesn't believe that Carpent er mas any
thing resembling an advantage on his
side in comparison to Dempsey.
Carpenter is the brainiest fighter in
the ring today" said Cochrane recently,
discussing the ability of the French
champion with the writer, He is a
split-second thinHer and the keenest and
most uncanny student Of an opponent
| nave ever seen.
What the F~lenchman doesn't know
about fighting is not worth discussing.
He's jolly well fun of tricks and he has
a manager who knows lighting inside
out. Why, just as Carpenter was en-
tering the ring with Beckett, M. Des-
champs, following his tighter, spied me
AZ tue IlllS GfdG anu llSlu up WV In
gers with the remark that the fight
would last no longer thai two rounds.
You know whether he was right -er not
Expects Hard Fight.
And don't think that M. Deschamps
is being carried away with any de-
lusions that Carpenter in his bright
flush OF success and popularity is going
to have things easy against Dempsey.
Far from 1t. Carpenter is also aware
of the KIM of a fighter he will have
to face, He has a very good idea of
what DemI@y can do. He realizes that
he is in for the hardest fight of his
career and that he is attempting the
seemingly impossible. Yet he believes
he a win. II he did not think that
he could win he would not have chal-
lenged Dempsey, much less have &C
cepted the. match when ! preached 1t
to him after the Beckett fight. Win
ming means more to him than the
money.
&Carpentier is a trifle light, but he
Is a remarkable boy. He weighed only
16S when he went into the ring against
Beckett, though we gave out his
weight at 10 pounds. He Is not like
the English fighters at all. He learned
to fight from American boxers who
wen to France when he was but a
young fellow and he uses American
methods in the ring.
Personally l am inclined to think
hat his lack of weight will prove q
handicap, probably too big a one. II
he only carried more poundage he
would be the ideal fighter of all time.
He is a splendid boxer and a great
hitter, and he is game to the core,
Make no mistake about that. His bat
ties with Klaus and Papke proved his
gameness beyond a doubt, and although
he lost both bouts he deserved more
credit than he did for any of his vic
tories because of the splendid courage
he showed while taking punishment
| You must not forget that he was only
an L~undevelope5 COY at that time ant
no match for his experienced American
opponents,
Produces Contract.
Cochrane then brought forth the con,
tract he holds with Carpenter.
I'm going to do something hav'
not lone since l came to the United
/ tract with Carpenter" And he did.
The contract, he explained, called TO
the posting of 5000 pounds of thu
amount he guaranteed Carpenter fol
the Dempsey match by Feb. 10. IL
posted that amount before the middll'
Of January. The contract also binds
Cochrane to post another sum Of none,
in June and yet another next Deem
Der, and stipulates that in the even
he fails to post the money as agreed
the contract shall be void.
But | am going to post the none!
when the time comes whether l hav,
secured Dempsey's signature or not,
said Cochrane, land | ON assure yo'
that unless | say so Carpenter ant
Dempsey will not meet-at least no