Imperial Valley press., 1921-06-23
DEMPSEY IS
KA " D Ed
HIS FIRST
TIME:
Hooking Up With Kearns
Was Champions Saliva
ton. Carpenter Advances
Rapidly in European Fis-
tic World.

After the disappointing eastern trip
Dempsey returned to his home in Salt
Lake City and fought one or two in
consequential battles of which no no.
tice was taken. He again was noticed
however, when Jim Flynn. one of the
best of second-raters among the
heavyweights, knocked him out in one
round at Salt Lake City. ..
Discouraged Dempsey went to San
Francisco to pick up what matches he
could. Here it was that he met Jack
Kearns, a good judge of boxers, who
saw in Dempsey certain promise. 1t
was under, the guidance of Kearns
that the future heavyweight champion
fought several battles in and around
San Francisco before the end of the
year. He defeated Willy Meehan, Bob
McAllister, Gunboat Smith and Carl
Morris, all mediocre but crafty heavy
weights, in four-round bouts. Meehan
in another engagement, held Dempsey
to a draw at the same distance.
These results were satisfactory to
Kearns who sought only to give his
! charge the proper ring experience be-
| fore introducing him to the East.
Kearns is one of the shrewdest
"showmen"1 in boxing and he prepared
| for the invasion of the Middle West
and the East with scrupulous care
seeing in this rought and ready Utah
| product a very satisfactory meal
ticket" for the future.
| When Dempsey, from training and
boxing with men who knew every twist
and turn in the game, had absorbed
considerable experience, kearns ad
| judged him ready for another invasion
of the East. this time under more eX-
| pert supervision.
! The trip was triumph from the
start. Dempsey literally fought his
way across the continent. Boxing at
least once, sometimes twice a week,
in cities of varying sizes, he hung
up great record. Fireman" Jim
! Flynn, Bill Brennan, Arthur Pelkey,
Fred Fulton, Porky Flynn and Bat
Ting Levinsky were among the vic
Tins. The only reverse decision reg
istered against him during the year
was a four round bout on the coast
in which Willy Meehan beat Dempsey
on points.
The second battle with. "Fireman"
jim FLYNN was one of the early bouts
of the trip. 1t was staged in a west
ern town and Dempsey knocked out
Flynn in the first round, thus aveng-
ing the earlier one-round defeat at
the hands of the veteran.
An anecdote concerning that battle
shows the confidence which kearns
already had acquired in his new
charge. Flynn's manager, believing
that Dempsey again would be an easy
victim, offered to wager Kearns an
amount on the result. Kearns was
&lling, to wager not only on che re-
suit, but ebt that Dempsey would win
in one round. The outcome proved tie
correctness of his calculations.
| Carpenter quickly developed in
physical strength and weight, as well
as in boxing skill. in 1910 and 1911
Descamps kept him busy during 1910
and although he met no opponents of
exceptional class, he learned rapidly
all the time. Four knockouts, six vic
tories, one by foul, two draws and
two defeats, adorned his record dur,
ing that year. Two youths, Buck
Shine and Young SNOWFALL We're cred
tied with victories over him.
BY this time Carpenter was full
fledged lightweight and, early in 1911
graduated 10 the WellefWelSnl ulVl
sion. His first important battle il
this class was with Frank Loughrey
an American, in May, 1911. The con
test was fought in Paris as prelim
mary to the, Dixie Kid-Young "Tom
my" Loughery contest.
Carpenter received the decision
over his first American opponent il
Is rounds of torrid boxing. The ex
hibition of Capentier was one of tn,
llbest of his early fighting and marked
Y only the first of long series of no
;. battles the French athlete was to have
with American boxers.