New Britain herald., 1920-10-15

an injustice of a most brutal kind and one which is harder to bear than the bitterness of my defeat to all the hopes that I had of being able by my showing with Carpenter to jus- tify a return match with Dempsey"
 For the following reasons I trained harder, moro ccnscientiously, than I ever trained for the 240 battles that I had previously engaged in:
 "1. I thought it was the greatest opportunity that had ever come to mo in my life to win fame and great ness.
 "2. If I had beaten Carpenter by big margin I would be morally the light champion of the world, even though I did not knock him out.
 "3. My victory also meant that I would win a very considerable sum because I backed myself heavily on the result: and, if I was not knocked out, I would have won still further heavy sums which I had wagered.
 "4. My manager, Dan Morgan, who knows my capabilities better than any man breathing, would not hear of my defeat and wagered heavily on me, taking every bet that was offered to him until he could, take no more.
 ''5. Jack Britton, who has accumu- lated a. fortune by careful living and never betting or speculating, made Gn exception that he had not made for years. When told him felt fit and we'll on the morning of the fight he bet that Carpenter would not knock me out
 "6. And. lastly. the greatest reason of all was that knew hundreds of the Jewish race, who had faith in me which has been built up by a long and honorable career in the ring, were backing me heavily to win. Among these were included several of my relatives
 Tt is not possible for me to do any thing to prove that this cowardly att tack on my honesty is undeserved In regard to the fight I know my vindi- cation will come if ever Carpenter meets Dempsey. In the second round Carpenter hit me harder than I have ever been hit before. From that mo- ment to the end of the contest I was dazed."
 Chairman Smiths Statement.
 Chairman Smith issued the follow ing statement:
 ''It has been brought to my atten- tion through the press and other sources that there are certain rumors that the fight between Georges Car pentier and Batting Levinsl<y in Jer- sey City on Tuesday night was a fake or frame-up.
 Personally, I am convinced that these are the idle rumors that follow In the wake of all big matches and emanate from hard losers. I was a spectator at the fight and watched it carefully. I was there in an official capacity-as boxing commissioner of the state in which the contest was taking place. It is my duty to pro- tect the public. If there had been anything to warrant the belief that the fight was a fake. I certainly would have stopped it. But I didn't sec anything to make me think that it was not absolutely honest.
 We have no process of law which will enable us to bring men from an- other state 10 New Jersey to testify in any investigation we might make, but if those writers who have pub lished that the fight was a fake are real sportsmen, they will come to New Jersey. and lay the facts, if they have any that will prove their state ments, before the commission.
 "Or better. 1 will hold an investiga- ton in the offices of the International Sporting club so that they may be saved the inconvenience of coming ov ar to New Jersey.
 -"Levinsky. may not have been knocked completely out. His own