The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-29
Gibbons Should Haze Little
Trouble Mauling Carpenter
Merciess Beating of the Frenchman by Dempsey Has Weak
ened Foreign Fighters Resistance Says Menke
Believes Battle viii Be Brief

ord? They're never the same. There
is something in the way Dempsey hits
'em in the body-something in the
crashes that he sends to the chin
which takes away from these men for
a long. long time-perhaps forever
the old ability to take beatings.
No man ever had to stand more ter
rible body mauling than the French
man. The American champion was
merciless with his inside attack A.
terward there were many who figured
that Dempsey had all but rearranged
the placing of Carpenters internal
organs by the body smashing through
those four rounds. And Carpenter
himself admitted that never, in all the
fights of his lifetime put together, had
any man hit him so hard
Dempsey Hurt Carpenter
Dempsey softened up the French
man so that the Frenchman never
again will be able to present the same
solid front to any foe. Dempsey hurt
Carpentier-not in a way that will
cripple him as a human, but certainly
in fashion that will harm him as
a fghter. For once mans body has
been smashed to point of exhaustion
by sledge hammer blows, that body
never again can take mauling in the
same old way.
Gibbons, therefore, tackles a man
much softer and with far less resist
ance power than Dempsey tackled in
Jersey City.
Dempsey could have whipped the
Frenchman-in the first round in Jer-
sey City if he hadn't played it safe.
Caution stayed the impulse to go out
and smash the Frenchman with every
thing in the fistic catalogue 1t stay.
ed him through two more rounds.
Dempsey had a championship to pro.
tect-and he protected it. He had ev.
erything to lose by carelessness-cer.
tain victory to gain by caution.
Makes Cautious Fight.
So Dempsey fought along slowly
carefully-and won at the earliest
| moment that a cautious fighter could
win against such highly touted-
and fearfully over-rated-fist flipper
| as Georges, of France
! Gibbons will not need to exercise
caution. He can go in and start his
seeking with the bang of the first ball
! He need have no fear of the great
right hand punch that was supposed
| TO Kill with its every landing. He saw
dempsey take that punch not once but
twice In rapid succession He saw
Dempsey stand up and fight back.
So Gibbons knows that the punch
isn't the dynamite which a lot of DO
hunks claimed it was. Tomasco per
haps reckons that his own jaw ism
! quite as tough as that of the mar
from Utah. But he has it figured
and correctly-that it's still tough
enough to stand up unflinchingIy un
der whatever the French daisy cal
deal out
Gibbons Style Orthodox.
Gibbons is a bit taller than Demp
7 sey-but not so heavy. He is an or
thodox man in defense; using tn.
tactics and the style which Jim Cor
bett originated He will prove in
finitely harder to reach than Demp
sey. And that bird can hit-oh, my
Oh, my, how he can hit. His specialt,
is left body hook-the blow tina
changed Jim Jeffriese from a mediocr,
man to heavyweight champion of tn
world
| He can't hit with Dempsey's powe
but 1t won't be necessary. He pei
haps can't take 'em like Dempse
does-but he won't need to. For Cal
pentier no longer is the man he use
to be-since they tossed him into
squared arena with the THE Tiger O
the Prize Ring"
Copyright 1891 By King Features
| Syndicate, IncD