The evening world., 1921-05-17
FRENCH CHAMPION PLANS
COURSE OF HARD WORKOUTS
FOR BATTLE WITH DEMPSEY
Joe Jeanette to Help French Heavyweight Get Carpenter in
Shape for World Bou-Why Georges Failed to Make Better
Showing Against LevinSEy
By William Abbott.

Georges Carpenter, smiling and
confident, started training for his
worlds Championship battle with Jack
Dempsey on July :, to-day, WITH a
long hike over the rolling Long Island
country around ManhassCt Long
walks and limited workouts with his
sparring partners will be the schedule
for the next two weeks until the
French champion is thoroughly ac-
ciimated. Then will come vigorous
bouts with Joe jeanette and Paul
Journee. a French heavyweight who
was specially imported to act as a
trial horse. Carpenter will remain
at Manhasset, and every hour Up to
the big rumpus at Jersey City has
been carefully mapped out by the
Frenchman's assistants, who hover
about him night and day.
Carpenter is wonderfully sclf.pos-
Bessed for one coming such long way
to seek the highest boxing honors n
the world. He refuses 10 make a Dat
prediction, but continued question ng
brought out the fact that he expects
20 beat Dempsey and by knockout.
While Carpenter Is silent Des-
camps, his cunning manager; Gus
Wilson. who has trained him for all
his important fights, and Paul Jour
nee all hold 10 the belief that Car
pentier knows too much for the Amer
lean champion and viii win inside or
twelve rounds when the two meet.
Carpenter is either care free or a
wonderful actor. Always buoyant and
cheerful, he now seems in fine spirits.
On his last visit the French idol
booked drawn and worried, potmarks
OF strenuous social and movie picture
demands Now his face is free OF
lines and, IL anything, he appears
heavier, although Carpenter, in i'm
proved English. assured group Of
newspaper men he weighed ITS. his
normal weight.
CARPENTER SAYS BETTING IN
= FRANCE is ABOUT EVEN.
Asked OF the latest betting odds in
France, Carpenter said II was about
even-flfty- fifty, as he expressed it
There were more questions fired at
the debonair Frenchman until Car
pentier slipped away TO do some quos-
tioning himself. lie sought out VIII
son, his faithful trainer. who has re-
manned in this country for n year.
and asked about Dempsey's showing
against Bill Brennan in the Garden
last winter.
Carpenter smiled broadly when
Wilson assured him that ne would
have won in two rounds had he been
in Brennans place. The Frenchman
next inquired about Dempsey and
seemed perpleXed when informed
that Walloping Jack had been doing
q lot of movie picture work and was
supposed not TO be in tip top con-
dition.
Wilson's information seems to
make the whole camp more opumis-
tic. would Carpenter beat the
heavy-hitting DempseyT Wee wee
A quick sidestep and sudden thrust
with the right hand-that was how
Wilson and the huge Journee fore
saw the July 2 battle. They gave
Dempsey credit for being n dangerous
man. But their own Georges. clever
and resourceful, knew too much for
him.
The writer, not wholly satisfied
with their explanation, asked about
Carpenters poor showing against
Battling Levinsky.
Wilson, for the first time. volun-
feered the information that the
French champion was not in the best
of shape for that bout. He caught a
heavy cold a few days before that
engagement and finally fought Lev
inBky against the wishes OF his stan.
Wilson insists the Carpenter that will