Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-06
Weight About
Only Difference
in Big ScraDDerS.

New \ DIX, June Nv lth a QlIer-
ence in weight of about 20 pounds
when they meet in the ring four
weeks hence, Dempsey and Carpcn-
tier will otherwise appear almost
equal in build and stature. If both
were to mix in among a few collegi-
ate athletes, football players and oars
men, probably neither would he pick
ed out as being unusually big or for
midable in general make up, Demp
sey stands feet, / IL inches in
height. just two inches taller than the
French champion and while Carpen-
tier will weigh about 10 pounds in
fighting condition Dempsey expects
to enter the ring slightly under 100
POUNDS.
The champions shoulders are broad
! while Carpenters are sloping in
shape but otherwise the bodily meas
urements OF the pair do not differ to
any marked extent
/ Experts Who have seen both men
are satisfied that they will be we'll
matched in speed and cleycrnCss but
the majority believe that Dempsey
will carry by far the heavier weight
in his blows. DeXterity and supple
ness are claimed as advantages for
the Frenchman by his followers but
Just how hard punch he can deliver
! IS still problem.
! Dempsey showed in his bout with
Willard at Toledo that his blows pos
i seSs enormous furnishing power but
! his more recent encounters with Bill
{ Brennan NJ Madison Square Garden
did not demonstrate that lie still re
tains the lorceful punch necessary to
successfully stand off a man of Car
pcntiers undoubted ability and clev-
/ erncss.
Just how good the challenger is or
how hard blow he can land is
, predetermined to the ma iority of
! American HStic patrons. who have
! seen him IN action. His only bout
/ here, that with Levinsky in Jersey
i CITY last year, did not afford much of
+ 4 lin" on Carpenters prowess Lee
whisky. always a clever boxer. made
I practically 10 serious effort to de-
/ iend himself on that occasion and
went down and out an easy victim
for the Trenchman in the fourth
! round
| Nearly so years have elapsed since
/ oucensherry rules and glove contests
! were substituted for the London prizc
ring code governing pugilistic con-
tests for championship titles. In
most OF the bouts fought for the
heavyweight championship since the
change took place, there was a de
ended ADVANTAGE
the principals, but this did not always
| carry victory with it.
beginning with the Corbett- Sull-
van battle at New Orleans in 1892,
/ the big Boston man was massive in
proportion to the 1.-the supple and
extremely clever Californian but tho
/ smaller man bore the big chan,pion
! down and annexed the title in the
list round. Corbett was one and
onc-half inches taller but 10 pounds
iIghter than Sullivan who stood 5
! ieet 10 Il inches and weighed about
/ Goa pounds
Corbctt and Bob FitZsimmons wnrs
more evenly matched in height and
age. Corbett was half an inch taller
and four years younger than the
~ ii'oHiildH but he was nearly 20
/ pounds heavier than F'itzsimmons
when the latter knocked him out and
| won the title at Carson CITY. March
! H. 1897.
I TWO years later James !. Jeffries of
huge build and outweighing F'itzsim-
/ mons by fully 80 pounds won the title
: IN II rounds from. Bob at Coney
! Island and five months later, Novem-
bcr. 1899, Jcffries got a referees de-
cision over Tom Sharkey in a Is
round bout in the same arena Shar-
key W%S several inches shorter a.d
about 20 pounds lighter than the
! then champion.
{ Corbett challenged Jeffries twice
| for tho title but was knocked out by
the bigger man each time. once in %.
rounds and the next time in 10
! rounds.
! Jack Johnson. the negro who de-
| fcated Jeffries at Reno. New, in 1910,
was nearer to the big mans size
than any of the other heavyweights
! who had met him for the title in the
previous ten years. Johnson was
! three years younger, one inch short