The New York herald., 1921-07-02
CARPENTERS ONLY
HOPE LIES IN LONG
DRAWN OUT BATTLE
Frenchman, by Staying the
Limit, Would Achieve a
Moral Victory.
DEMPSEY NIGHT TIRE
Early Test of Strength by
Challenger Fatal to
His Chances.
CHAMPIONS HARD BLOWS
Worlds Title Holder Must
Win Quickly, and Decisively,
or Lose Prestige.
CHAMPIONS HARD BLOWS
BY CHARLES f. MATHIsoN.

BY CHARLES f. MATHIsoN.
Straining at the leash like hounds
seager for the chase. Jack Dempsey and
Georges Carpenter, ablest heavyweight
fighters of the world, await the gong
that will call them to the centre of the
ring in Jersey City this afternoon in
what promises to be the greatest
pugilistic combat of modern times.
The gladiators. after months of
strenuous prapartion, are fit for tho
struggle, and no matter who is victor
the loser will have no excuse to offer
on the score of physical condition.
Dempsey is in condition to fight the
greatest battle of his career, and Car
pentier has shown a perfection of
physical excellence that presages a
wonderful ring effort on the part of
the European champion.
Dempsey is the personiHcation Of
rugged, powerful manhood, coupled
with agility, combativeness and a
forcefulness of attack seldom COM
bined in any other heavyweight boxer
bone and muscle behind his aggres-
siveness. his catapultic attack has
swept nearly all his opponents, in
Guiding the best heavyweights in
America, off their feet to speedy de-
feat. His victims have crumped un-
der the crushing blows OF the cham
pion, and few have been bold enough
to demand a second test OF skill and
strength with the title holder.
He has done all that has been asked
of him, which is as much as any OF the
great champions of the past have ac-
complished. and. still 1t Is the opinion
OF those who have closely watched the
champion that he has never been COM
pletely extended.
This Is the sort OF man that the COM
parativeIy slender and less rugged
French champion will attempt to defeat
this afternoon in Boyes Thirty Acres
Should Carpenter vanquish the mighty
Dempsey, or even last the limit of the
twelve rounds prescribed for the bat
tie, 1t will be proof that the Frenchman
is much better fighter than his past
performances in the ring would indi-
cate.
Carpenters Courage.
The Frenchmans courage cannot be
questioned. for he is fearlessly entering
the ring with robust young giant who
weighs twenty pounds more than the
challenger and who excels the French
man in rearly all essentials of physical
construction. Dempsey is taller by one
and half inches. has a greater chest
rf~N-.
arc important qualifications in boxing
bout. especially IL the contestants are
well matched In the matter OF science
and skill.
1t is conceded that Dempsey is quite
as speedy with hands and feet as the
Frenchman. and that while the style
of the worlds champion is not so snowy
as that OF the Frenchman it is very
effective.
Therefore. II becomes apparent that
n Carpenter Is TO win quickly 10 must
he through the exercise OF strategy, In
which the Frenchman will take advnn-
tage OF some situation where Dempsey
Is careless or off guard.
II II intimated that Carpenter will
avail himself of supposed psycholog-
teal advantage, To the discontinue OF
the worlds title holder. In fact, the
Frenchman seems to be under the i'm
preston that Dempseys morale will be
Shattered by the propaganda put into
circulation through military channels.
II Is said to be the expectation OF Car
pentier that Dempsey will be so irri-
tated and annoyed by this attitude on
the part of the soldiers that he will be
distraught and unable to do himself
Justice In the ring.
IL is greatly to be feared the French
man. who has not hesitated to accept
compliments from military sources that
contained bitter attacks on Dempsey.
will be disappointed. Dempsey has no
doubt privately resented these attacks.
but he has not in any public way taken
cognizance of them.
Now that the time has come for the
warriors 10 prove which is the better
man in an eighteen foot ring rather than
in military records the champion will
enter the fray ready to do his best. He
has come through his training with
splendid results and In in high good
hurnor as he awaits the call to action.
Therefore II would appear that neither
Carpenter nor his astute manager
Descamps, will be able TO gain any
special advantage through invoking the
aid of psychology.
Frenchman's Deadly Right.
There remains for the European cham
pion his celebrated right hand punch
portant personages as Bombardier Wells
and Joe Beckett II the Frenchman car
get that dangerous right fist of his across
to the Dempsey Jaw the result might b,
disastrous to the worlds champion.
IL Is possible that Carpenter might
accomplish this feat during an inter.
change OF blows by the contestants and
that the clout would result In the trans.
fer of the worlds title TO Paris
Yet II would be necessary for Tho
Frenchman to land this rlghthand punch
before Dempsey succeeded In reaching
his opponent with any kind OF a blow
Especially would II be wise for tho
Frenchman to avoid a left hook to the
body previous TO sending his own right
hand TO Dempsey's Jaw. for II has Beer
the sad experience OF a majority oi
Dempsey's opponents who have felt tho
force OF the champions left hook that
they lost interest in the subsequent pro-
ceedings
Considered from all points Of view, n
-~.u..f1 he fatal for the Trenchman 10