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NO OPPONENTS
FOR CROWN OF
DEMPSEY LEFT
Tommy Gibbons Must Show His
Worth Against Two or Three
Coed Men Yet.
BY HENRY L. FARRELL.
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

New York, July 4.-Looks like
Jack Dempsey is still pretty good.
The worlds champion has beaten
most of the big men and in Carpen-
tier he knocked out the greatest OF
the fast and clever ones.
Those remaining for him to prove
himself are not outstanding right
now: Harry Wills, Jess Willard,
Bill Brennan, Tommy Gibbons.
Dempsey has already defeated
Willard and Brennan He showed
Carpenter that he is just as good
now, if not better, than when ne
whipped them. Neither of them Is
entitled to another trial, unless the
public decides to pay big money to
see the champion in action.
Wills is not good enough to beat
the champion.
Dempsey showed Saturday that
he could take the greatest punches
in the world. Wills can't hit any
harder than. the F'renchman. He
hasn't one-haIf the strength of the
Frenchman. Considering the row
that would be raised by matching
Dempsey and Wills, the bout would
not be worth the while as it would
only give Dempsey a chance 10
knock off about the only one who
hasn't already got it.
Tommy Gibbons is good but he
is light Gibbons needs at least two
or three stiff matches, such as one
with Carpenter, before he tackles
the champion.
Tex Richard wants the match
for Labor day in his Jersey City
arena Carpenter, who plans To
return for a while, wants either
Gibbons or Bill Brennan. Gibbons
and the Frenchman would be q
great bout. 1t would bring togetn-
er two of the fastest and hardest
hitting heavyweights the world has
ever known.
Gibbons has been wanting the
lantic last year.
Richard also is planning big
match for Columbus Day, Oct. II
He would like TO get Willard IL
! Brennan for Dempsey.
The champion said that he was
going 10 sTVe them all a chance
hat he was not going into the NOV
es and that he was going to keep in
light training for a clean up drive.
Ne said the same thing in Toledo, !
\ NNwSNe1. NsVMpSeE rs 'SNNwNNS no
\ signs OF his Saturdays battle. W
says he did not feel punch in tn
? second round when he seemed /
! be grOggy and nearly out He claim!
that the FreHchn1aR caught him OF
his balance and knocked him
against the ropes, but that he wasn't |
hurt in the entire bout.
Carpenter recovered rapidly.
Save for the little cuts on his face,
\ a slightly swollen eye and his banc-
aged hand he does not look mucf
unlike the Frenchman that played
around on the lawn at ManhasseI
! before he met the champion.
Descamps. his manager, says
Carpenter is willing 10 meet them
all but he does not want another
bout with the champion.
We are not one of those who
alibi," he said. Dempsey is the
greatest fighter in the world and
we know it. We cannot beat him. -
Carpenter has a broken bone in
his hand beyond doubt. But it is
matter of doubt when he shatter-
ed the bone. The writer believes
it was in the third round and not
in the second, as the Frenchman
claims. In the third round Carpen-
tier started short body punch and
hit the champion on the elbow. The
Frenchman WINGED with pain and
shook his hand like a ball player
after stopping a hot one. He hadn't
favored = hand before but he
did after
The injured hand. entities the
Frenchman to sympathy but it does
not detract from the champion s
victory. He hit Dempsey with every
thing he had before he fractured
the driver and he couldn't bring him