The New York herald., 1921-07-01
GiYY'S HOTELS HUM
With TALK OF Fight
From Medicine Hat to Miami
and From Bangor to Ell Paso
the Pilgrims Arrive.
$4,000 VISITORS ON WAY
Speculation as to the Victor
Chief Conversation, With
Carpenter Popular.

Steadily filing with out of town pill
| grims to the international quarrel to
be solved in the middle of yellow
pine arena bigger than the whole Polo
! Grounds tomorrow afternoon in JEFF
sey City the hotels of New York hum
with fight talk. Twenty-Five thousand
people from the provinces" and Can
ada are arriving at New York hotels
for the biggest pugtlistic show In the
recorded history of mankind, and more
than 5000 of them are already regis
tered The rest will swarm in to-day,
tonight and early tomorrow morning.
They are immensely interesting,
these folk; people distinctly represen-
tative in the best way Of their various
communities from Medicine Hat to
Miami and from Bangor to Ell Paso-
doctors and lawyers and merchant
chiefs (maybe stray dominic in dis
guise. who can tellD, men of sub
stance and social position, good up
standing, first rate types of American
citizenship.
| They bring their womenfok with
| them nice. motherly women. young,
attractive. smartly frocked girls, who
sit with dad talking fight" in the din
| ing rooms of New York's hostelries.
Butter wouldn't melt In their mouths.
but the fight germ has got them. They
are as interested as their fathers and
brothers. Their tongues clatter busily
in every lobby and dining room discus
| son--and Carpenter Is their hero. More
of that in a moment. II Is odd to sur
vey them. knowing that they are thor
oughy nice women here solely to attend
a prize fight, to see two men batter
and hammer each other until one falls
senseless. 1t wouldn't have been pos
sible to observe such spectacle even
few years ago. The women who saw
Jack Johnson beat Jeffries into in
sensibility at Reno were, as rule, a
different sort. Pretty much the same
was true at Toledo when Dempsey
brought willard down like a tree,
though change in type even then was
perceptible At least 5000 women,
maybe many more. Will sit In the arena
at Jersey City.
Speculation on the Victor.
At all of the big hotels that are GEN.
tres OF the fight visitors from out of
town, the Biltmore. the Commodore.
the Belmont, the Waldorf. the McAlpin.
the Astor. the Claridge. the Pennsyl-
varia, all the talk Is fight talk. Gus
tomary topics of conversation have
been pushed aside. Last evening thou
sands of perfectly conventional people
In perfectly conventional evening dress
devoted the conversation OF dinner and
supper hours and much time in between
to specializing as TO the victor.
The truth is that 30 far as visits to
many hotels and questioning OF patrons
and considerable echoes OF conversation
go the young Frenchman with the beau
tifui legs and Greek profile is marked
favorite among the folk from out OF
town. For some reasons not necessary
to examine. perhaps. Dempsey Is not
popular and Carpenter lis. At the Hotel
Biltmore. for example. a reporter for
THE NEW YORK HERALD questioned
forty-six patrons, most of whom were
registered from out OF town. as to their
hopes for the fight and of the forty-six
Carpenter was the hero OF thirty-five.
| or the thirty-five twelve were women.
| Only two women were found in this
company who wished TO see Jack Demp-
sey erect while the referee counted ten.
At the Waldorf out Of thrty-two per-
sons twenty-five were for Carpenter. IL
| appears that the sympathies Of many
| persons have been captured not only by
| the Frenchman's flawless war record
but also by his high spirit, his smiling
cheerfulness and his confidence In him
self with many Carpenter Is the
under dog" and probably IL is human
| for many to hope for an upsettng Of
the expected result. Persons who have
been around the hotels believe that In
the whole great crowd OF upward OF
| 100. 900 people Carpenter viii have more
partisans tomorrow than Dempsey.
Many NotsbIes I'm City.
Visitors at the hotels are from pretty
much everywhere. The large cities and
the we'll known social centres are heav-
| lily represented. Hundreds OF names are
registered as from Chicago and the list
| from San Francisco and Los Angeles Is
surprisingly large. Tho big middle and
central West cities have poured in their
people. Boston and New England are
sending a large contingent. Narragan-
sett Pier. Watch Hill and Newport are
well represented.
Among the fight visitors at the Bel
mont is Sir Robert Jones, famous Liver
pool surgeon, who will sit at the fight
with n party of prominent physicians.
| including Or. r. w. Lovett of Boston.
Representative John l. Nolan and Mrs
Nolan Of California are at tho Belmont
| for the fight. At the Biltmore among
the gathering hundreds are Mr.. and Mrs.
| Harry Preston OF London. Mr. Preston
Is a friend Of the Prince Of Wales and
often accompanies the Prince to fights in
l'London. There. too, is John A. RUSSELL
president Of the Board OF Trade of De-
troit Tom Mix, cowpupcher OF the
moviess Scssue Hayakawa, Japanese
Aim actor Major John Calvin of Gin