The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-14
JACK DEMPSEY BEGINS TO CATCH II IN THE NECK
Speed and Fighting Brain
Put. Carpenter in Class
With Champion Dempsey

And Carpenter upset all dope. He
came back with a performance that out
classed anything he did in his greatest
davs in the ring
knocked out Bombardier Wells twice,
| the second time in less than a minute
Of fighting.
But Wells wasn't hard to knock out.
| Everybody was doing II. Palzer, Cum
boat Smith. Frank Moran, Gunner NOR
all nattened the Bombardier, Wells was
a tall fellow and n magnificent boxer.
but entirely lacking in ability to take
a punch. He was a champion until he
was hit.
with Beckett it was a different prop
osition. Beckett was rugged. strong,
! enduring. He was tough. Englishmen
likened him to Tom Sharkey. II was
thought he'd wear Carpenter down and
win when the Frenchman had shot his
bolt. And Carpenter knocked him
clearly out with n right-hand punch
Carpenter has what few English box
| ers over the lightweight class have eve
| shown. He has speed and an active
brain, The English heavyweights. with
! very few exceptions, are too u and
slow Of mind to be good fighters. Some
or the greatest joke heavyweights I've
| ever. seen were champions of England.
To a man they were slow, heavy. stolid,
They might plod among other English
heavies, but put them up against a
| quick thinking American they were lost,
| remember one Jack Scales, many
years ago. Eugene CORR took me to see
him fight at the Adelphi A rat beetS
fellow, Kid Mccoy, went over there and
knocked him out In a round, and two
others the same evening in the same
ring, Scales boxed Jeffries in Paris.
Jeffries handled him gently, but in he
second round Scales said to jeff:
"Blfme! Hi didn't come hover ere to
be 'ammered all over the bloomin' place.
/ resigns and 'ands you the champion
ship hof Hengland,' A.
Palmer Whipped.
There was a Jack Palmer-English
champion. He. came TO- America and
was whipped by Jack Twin Sullivan.
Palmer was another beefy fellow of OK
like stolidity in the ring and out Of it,
Gunner Moir, wrestler and boxing
champion of England-slow, stiff, clum-
sy, and easy victim Of Tommy Burns,
when Tommy toured the world, making
good his title claims. Ian Hague was
a whale of a man and would have been
a wonder on a brewery wagon. He
knocked out other English heavies so
easily that the English sportsmen
thought at last they had a sure enough
worlds champion-a man fully as good
as Jeffries, They imported Sam Lang
lOIu W W hShNu w hAeENSs oNhh
knocked all the fight out Of Hague. in
four rounds. Sam flattened another
English champion, Tiger" Smith. in
four rounds. It was soft for Samuel.
Sam used human intelligence In the
ring. something unknown to the Eng
fish heavies.
A few weeks ago An English promoter
came to see Jack Dempsey about fight.
ing Beckett, taking 1t for granted
Beckett would beat Carpenter.
do you have someone ready to carry
YOUR boxers out of the ring after the
first round?" asked a friend of Jacks,
kidding the Englishman.
II don't catch the bloomln' idea,"
said the English promoter.
out in the first round" said the Ameri-
can.
'Haw. haw!" laughed the English
man. "I see. You're spoofing me-"
But Carpenter knocked Beckett out
in less than a round. Dempsey would
have done the same thing. .