The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24
RosenthaL Picks
 Carpentier Forp New Ring Cham
By JAMES ]. CoRBETr.

| boOiSSS OdFpeutitT CdH Nuip JdCh Dempsey"
 ] Rosenthal has been identified with the game promoter and manager for more than thirty years, and is generally ac- l cepted as an authority on things fstic / l His money and influence made the JacR' ] Johnson-Jess Willard affair possible in l Havana.
 i Kosenthai. explaining his position, says:
 q saw that French kid at work against | three Americans, and I'll say he's the fastest moving and swiftest puncher that ! ever lived" adds Rosenthal. Dempsey 1 hits harder. But Dempsey can't hurt If | he doesn't hit, can he? If he ever gets 1 into the ring with the Frenchman he ! isn't going to do any hitting, because hell never be able to land a solid smash. You can't hit shadows. you know. And that's what Carpenter is "I was in Billy Papl1e's corner in 1912 when Carpenter fought him in Europe At the time, Papke was at the absolute crest of his career. Carpenter was a l'-year-old kid. Think of it. Seventeen and pitted against a seasoned and one of the greatest middleweights! In the second round Carpenter near ly broke Papke's jaw with right handler to the jaw. Billy dropped in his own corner, with his head hanging over the ropes He was completely out. l plunged sponge into ice water doused it with a powerful solution of ammonia and damned it under Billy's nose As I held it there, Billy's other handlers poured ice water on his head
 'Fhe drastic treatment brought Billy around by the count of seven and he was able to get I'D before ten. My or ders were to clinch. He did and SO saved himself through the rest of the round-saved himself by grabbing the French kid so tightly that no one could Dry him loose
 Nothing but the most heroic treatment made 1t possible to get Billy out for the third. And even then, if he had gone out and fought openly, the French boy would have hung it orr him for K O. But Billy was told to clinch-and clinch he did until his brain had clea red Then he went out and fought, but always agiy.
 "ln the sixteenth Billy ripped right to Carpenters eye and gashed it. He ! kept hammerng away at it in the sev- enteenth and had it wide open and p!eeding badly when the round ended As tie bell rang for the eighteenth Deschamps, who was managing Car pentier. wouldn't let the French kid ] resume the battle, fearing permanen, lnJury to the eye. So Papke won on technical knockout But not because carpenter quit as mary claim, bu, because his manager wouldn't let him fight any more.
 Papke wcn--5ut he was dead to the world ill the sccnd round and wouldn't nave recovered in thirty seconds if hann tricked the TIenchmen by using ihe ammonia and the ice water T saw Carpenter take on Jeff Smith Ia short tune later--at time when smith was really great. Deschamps
 made the kid go slow for 15 rounds and then ordered him to tear loose For the next five and final rounds carpenter showed more fighting abil, ity than any man I've seen in the r;re He was wonder of wonders-and he
 made the great Smith look like a. no. vice. "Carpentiers record shows defeat at the hands of Joe Jeannette the american negro, That decision was
 mistake and an injustice to the Frenchman. He dropped the neg-o in one of the early rounds and had him all but out. When Jeanette got ur he saved himself by clinching If he'd ever tried to meet the Frenchman toe to- toe in any of the next four rounds he'd have been flattened sure But
 Jearnettes a smart warrior-and he
 knew what was best for him. Frenchman refereed and gave the f1ght 10 the American. The decision '~' iSsS~ aho JccIeu--dnQ It should
 have been. For Carpentier had the
 edge all the way But the refere. Ike many other Frenchmen just hen had great fondness for Jeannetts who was a great favorite in Paris
 And hts liking for the American negro overcame his Judgement.
 "Carpentier is infinitely bettar in every way now than he was in 1913. 1915 and 1914. And feel certain that he's greater fighter-an things con- Isidered-than Jack Dempsey. I grant | freely that Dempsey can hit H1a l record is crowded with kpockout triumphs. But Dempsys opponents
 have been--in the main-men who are
 heavy afoot. All Dempsy needed to do was to walk in, let loose with all he had--and down they'd go.
 l But when he meets Carpentier-oov different it'll be. He'll look like
 Japanese lantern strung over a picnic
 ground on breezy night. He'll be swinging, swinging-and hitting noth- ing. And every time he misses he'n be in danger of getting an awful smash on the jaw. If one of those smashes that Car pentier can let loose lands solidly--and
 I'm sure one will-there'll be another
 heavyweight champion of the world.
 And his name will be Georges Carpen- tier"
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