Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-15
NERVOUS WAYS
USUALLY MEAN
THEY'RE READY
Corbett Says Good Fighters
Always Are TemperamentaI
When on Edge.
CITES OWN EXPERIENCE
~ JAMES ]. CoRBErr.


Former Worlds Heavyweight Champion.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Ive been hear
ing and reading quite 4 bite of comment
about occasional displays of nerves" By
Georges Carpenter and Jack Dempsey.
Like many others who are recording
the progress of the rival boxers in train
ing, have visited both camps, vet SO
far ! have failed 20 notice anything I'M
usual in this way.
FROM my own experience and FROM
what have observed in years of folIovsss
ing boxing l have never yet seen a tor,
hotcn boxer who did not show a touch
OF temperament at times and l fail to sea
why any particular Importance should
De attached to such a thing.
PLODDERS NOT
USUALLY GOOD,
da II Dempsey were to plod along In his
G4Iiy routine, showing no more In
99lVldua!ity than truck horse, or II
carpenter drifted along from day to daY
Win never a flash Of impatience. taklnc
everything as it came to him with the
patience OF mich cow, there would be
wrong.
Dempsey and Carpenter are both fun
OF nerves. Certainly they are. If they
We're not they would not be where they
are today. They are Ike thorouphhred
race horses, dancing at the barrier and
eager to tear into the stretch. The
nervous energy that is In them. with
tnelr wonderfully muscled bodies to obey
It's command. makes them great fighters.
BaDe Ruth, for instance, has nerves.
BaDe's nervous temperament asserts it.
self at the moment he crashes into 8
baseball for home run. He is keyed
up. eye, mind and muscle working in
perfect coordination as the pitch whizzes
up to the plate and In the Instant that
determines whether he will swing on the
pill or not his nervous voltage is upper
most.
Nervous energy will be uppermost in
both Dempsey and Carpenter July 2.
After they have received final instruc-
tons from the referee and go to their
corners, back to back, to await the harsh
clang of the gong, they will both bs
Jingle Of nerves. I've been there my
GEORGES PLACID
AND IN SHAPE.
Ny visits to Carpenters camp have
been as pleasant and uneventful, in a
Georges is quiet, quick witted, fast to
pick up the thread of a conversation and
withal the very embodiment of pent-up
energy, under control. But on the sur
means he is in condition-great condi-
ton
/ have studied Dempsey more closely
than I have the Frenchman. for I have
had more opportunities, and 1t will notS
surprise me to see Jack give more out
ward evidence of nerves on July than
his opponent. l say this simply because
believe Dempsey capable of being
keyed up to a higher pitch than Carpen-
tier. 1t means nothing aside from this.
nothing in the way of unfavorable COM
ment as applies TO the champion.
Dempsey's rushing style of lighting Is
the best indication in the world that he
is a veritable mine Of nervous energy,
the sort of nervous energy that predomi-
mates his cyelonic style Of lighting. II
Is that same sort of energy that gives
Carpenter his speed and lends the snaps
to his great right hand. And no great
fighter could be a great fighter with
out it.
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