Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-18
CARPENTER TRICKS
EMPLOYED AGAIN IN
TRAINING FOR COOK
Frenchman Secludes Himself
and Likely to Worry Oppon-
ent by Delaying Fight.
By SPARROW M'GANN
Special Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune

Copyright, 1921. The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Dec. 17.-That transcon-
tinental wise guy and fight fancier,
Harry Dime, who has been bouncing
about Europe and Asia for the past
year. winning money on bouts and pick
| inc the right colors on the well known
wheel of fate, bought himself cable
dispatch today. 1t is dated London.
'Saw Carpenter today. Working out
great. Weighs 172. English don't give
George Cook chance. Won't tax
about American trip"
Dime has a front. He would have to
get into Carpenters baronial training
quarters. which are located at Maiden
| head. Looks as if he is about the only
gnzaboo who has succeeded IN morning
through the barriers. That is the rea-
son he sent the cable, proud OF him.
self.
Carpenter Hazer.
| According to a letter received from
Harry dated London. he had made sew
arol unsuccessful attempts to see Car
| peptier in action. He attributed TINS
! to the sort of game the F,rencnman
was playing, a game. by the way, 10
which Dime says the British nave TIM
bled. 1t related to Georges scheme OF
VIC IRVING an opponent by postponlng q
fight at short notice. the excuse usu-
ally being illness. He has pulled me
stuff three times on Cook already, ana
xnen the fight with Joe Beckett was
pending he had that big mutt so 1ussea
Nv his postponements that when the
two really did get into the ring Beckett
was half stale and his nerves were
drawn to wire eGge.
Blacksmith Not Hysteric.
Rut Cook is blacksmith, just as
|other Australian fighters, such as Les
Darcy and Bob Fitzsimmons were, and
he doesn't look to be the type OF man.
saws Dime, who will be bothered by his
nerves. Dime adds that Cook is a
tough looking guy. but doesn't seem to
be able to hit hard. He is betting,
however, that the battle goes four
rounds. - -.
'"Carpentier," says Dime, ''is pulling
all tho old hokum he pulled when train
/ ing for Dempsey and then some. ne
has a butler with mutton chops whose
reserved manner makes the well known
snhynx sound like a photograph. lie
10 HE and plenty able to dust newspaper
men off the stoop with his left arm.
Secrecy is the word. Descamps goes
about ike a Chinese idol and no one
knows whether Carpenter will post
none the January ~ fight again OF
whether he will call it off altogether
The British are not falling for Car.
nentier the way they did before he met
Dempsey, and they would be willing to
scrap several of their newest battle
ships if some Englishman would knock
his block off. They have sicked Ted
kid Lewis onto him and the fun OF
watching the Frenchman dodge this
bird has detracted from the interest III
the coming Cook fight"
| English periodicals just received say
| nothing about Carpenters proposed
trip to the United States to meet Tom
Inv Gibbons. From other sources, how
ever, it may be said that lot concern
ling this journey depends upon his show
ling against Cook and another opponent
soon to be selected.
Nobody around these parts is getting
excited over the proposal to drag John.
ny Wilson into the ring against some
opponent as yet unnamed, but com.
monty supposed to be Harry Greb. The
general idea is that il the two do meet
Greb will take the title away from Will
son without too great an effort. Ii SO
then the middleweight class would lool
up ut once, since Greb is real fight
er and would be real champion. There
lis no doubt that Harry can make thu
lmiddleweight limit, but why there
should be is puzzling. Last June, dowr
at Manhasset he stepped upon Carpen