The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07
Mr. Crowder, Jr., Talks of Fight

II U aooul being lS IS tnaC Sou W don't have to>be anything else to enjoy yourself; all you have to do IS just to look around this great big beautiful world, which is so full of possibilities, and pick out what you think you'd like to have.
 Eighteen is the magic which re- veal everything roseate-hued and radiantly happy, opinions original and 'youngf always a delicious in- terlude in an otherwise prosaic old symphony.
 l thought of this when I was talk ing to young Arthur Crowder about the big Dempsey Carpenter fight yesterday This clever young gentle man, who is the son of our popular friends. MT and Mrs, Arthur G. Crowder, who number their friends by the scores in Birmingham, their graciousness and cordiality making them always much sought after in whatever company they happen to be placed.
 Mir. Arthur C. Crowder. Jr.. is IS and in the ring" His prediiections for this sport have carried him to the top on a wave of enthusiasm, and when he and young Percy Badham went up to Lawrenceville, N. J.. to school one of the first things that they did was to qualify in boxing" young MT. Crowder taking the honors in the 145-pound class and young MT. Badham in the l25- pound class
 Of course, it was only natural that MT. Crowder should be at the biggest fight of the decade last Saturday up in Jersey, and he and his father oc- cupying ''ringside" seats (no. l be- lieve l was corrected on that, with the Information that their seats cost only CD S25 each), enjoyed the bat tie to the utmost
 Anyway, when the big arena was 1 opened last Saturday, which Arthur Brisbane declared looked like soup plate with 96,000 flies setting before it." two of the most interested spec tators were our splendid Birmingham lcitizens-father and son--Mr. Crow der and young Arthur. sizing up the situation" enthusiastically.
 "The best man won and by knockout, which is about the most decisive way a prizeighter can win battle"
 This, in a nut sbell, is the opinion of the young 1syenr-old fighter from Birmingham, who viewed the battle from a fighters standpoint. .'It was like a big black bear ana a little Angora cat engaging Tn fight" said MT. Crowder, "so far dlo Dempsey exceed the Frenchman in weight and punch.
 "The crowd was really with Car pentier," he continued, for while the betting was 90 per cent on Dempsey the sentiment was 90 per cent on Carpentier. This perhaps was large Ily due to the fact that Dempsey was regarded as a stacker during the late war.
 "Too big and too strong by many odds" Mir. Crowder continued 1 "Dempsey seemed an assured winner almost from the beginning, and with All the steam imaginable in ms punches. it looked at first as 1T the ] European champion couldn't survive llonp. And yet there were peopleL many of them-who felt as if he'a laet through the sixth round, any :. way. maybe through the entire lz.
 "Even with Dempsey his superior
 nbvsicalIy." young MT. Crowder said aat that Carpenter came within al ave lash of putting over crushei
 in the second. That was the req | thrill of the fight-when ne iahuee this blow-a right handler catchlhp Dempsey squarely on the marx ah, set him up on ms neels' T VT GU if looked as if the American cham pion would go down. What held nm up was mystery-but hold up n' did and the Frenchman was uhapi'
 to land another blow before th'
 bell sounded.
 ..From the very beginning 1t was real fight. fast and furious. and the
 people were wild with excitement, said MT. Crowder. "I never saw sucf
 enthusiasm when Carpenter was Tn troduced; he bowed and made ntti' l motion of shaking his own hana--,il other words--giving the crowds tn' | glad hand as it were. When Demp sey was introduced, he was very quick in his acknowledgement ahe
 not suave like the Frenchman.
 "I want to say word about re, Rickard, who put on the fight saie | young MT. Crowder. and this wa' Joy to my heart because Tex IS one | of my friends; met him in New forH
 several years ago and had the pleas ure of writing 8 story about him
 and I want to say just here, that nicer or cleverer gentleman l have
 never met; refined andN chivalrous IT ,.;. ...an,ara unru intprpgtinR ant