The Washington herald., 1921-03-10
Richards 500, 600 Forfeit
Money Held by Edgren
ny ROBERT ,EDGREN.

ny ROBERT ,EDGREN.
The big battle between Dempsey
and Carpenter is going to come on.
There isn't any room for doubt
about that.
The two principals and Tex Rick
ard are going to stage the show,
and It is going to be a record event.
How do ! know? As sole arbiter
Of the forfeit money and custodian
Of the funds I can assure you that
Rickard alone has posted 100000
to my order in certified checks and
bonds - thus covering the entire
amount originally posted by RicA-
ard, Cochran and Brady.
I have instructed the Central
Union Trust Company to return
cochran's forfeit money to him. and
Brady has, received his.
Tex is Just as we'll OF without
his partners. His methods are dar-
ing and original, and he will now
have q free hand, and you may
wager that the result will be the
greatest sporting event the world
has ever seen.
Both Cochran and Brady wished
to withdraw from the venture. and
justified themselves on grounds OF
technical violation Of the contract.
Carpenter posted his forfeit money
in French bonds, which the law pre-
vented from leaving France. Con-
sequently they were deposited with
Morgan. Harjes Company In Paris.
which Richards associates declar-
ed was a technical violation Of the
contract.
Everything Is in order from the
financial standpoint. Now for the
battle!
A Real Trial.
Is CARPENTER game?
I'll say so! This Georges boy Is
one Of the gamest birds I've seen
in years. Just before he left for
France ! saw him perform an act
of courage unequaled by any guy
who ever posed before a motion
picture camera.
had carried a golf challenge
from Dempsey to Carpenter and
arranged for a match at a New Jer-
sey golf course. We drove out from
New York together. Dempsey
brought an outfit of golf clothes
along in a grip. being an experi-
enced golfer who has played at
least three or four times. Carpen-
tier brought nothing but the clothes
he wore. Georges had only a vague
idea that golf was something not
played on a billiard table.
In the clubhouse Dempsey and
Carpenter stripped for action.
Dempsey produced a we'll fittins
jersey that drew tight around his
trim waist and showed the bulging
10 l. nI Oh AA-
Someone explained to Carpenter
that golf was played over the hills
and a long. long way from the club
house: that there was an icy wind.
and that he'd freeze in his silk
where an ancient sweater for
Georges to wear.
Georges put 1t on. 1t was a
sweater built for a large fat man
1t could have been wrapped around
times. 1t draped his sinewy. ath-
letic figure like the wrinkled skin
Of a hippopotamus might hang over
q Cazelle.
1t hung half way to his knees
tapped in the wind, rolled UP in
punches about his wrists. 1t was
the worst sweater L ever saw. IL
made Georges look like a slope.
shouldered poor FISH. 1t disguised
everything about him but his smile
Carpenter is the neatest, trim.
st-looking fellow in the world
Never a hair out of place. And
he had just been In the movies.
expected to see him pull of that
sweater and throw 1t back into the
locker. But he didn't. He appeared
entirely unconscious OF 1t. Smiling.
ly he told Dempsey he was ready
He went out to play. posed cheer
fully beside the trim, neat Demp-
sey while cameras snapshotted the
pair for the papers. picked VI
enough golf in four holes to give
Jack a battle all the rest of the
way. and when II was over re.
turned the sweater with a smile
and a compliment.
Game! Say, any other fighter in
the world under the. same
circumstances would have been fig
uring for q week how to dress to