The Washington herald., 1921-07-04

first. preliminary bouts started in
with little fellows as each pair that
came out was bigger than the rest
leading up TO the feature, as you
might say.
i Well. right here and now am sure
the ladies would like to know what
the prize fighters wore. Any event
of importance which ever read
about gave a description of what
4 was worn by the prominent figures,
so I am sure 1t will be expected
of me hrre.
Well. then. the two near-Irishmen,
Curtin and belmont. wore smart
jade-green trunks. Curtin's were
tricolette. cut severely tailored, and
Delmont's being a loose model with
4 his monogram in white IN the left
knee. while Frankly Burns had q
charming Alice blue Terry. robe
trimmed with white. In striking
contrast. his opponent appeared in
dark red with boxing gloves to
match, while Soldier Jones had a
delicate creation of cornfower blue
! wool reaching barely to his waist,
and Gene Tunney appeared in a chic
creation OF black
Has SILK himona.
Probably the most striking cos
tune, however. was worn by Mr..
Carpenter. 1t was gray and
black -kimona with long flowing
sleeves and black sash, an ex-
tremely becoming garment which
will doubtless be copied along
Broadway during the coming season.
The big disappointment of the dress
parad was handed out by Mr.. Demp-
sey. who made his appearance in an
old red sweater and great deal
of bare leg. However, when he took
this on, he had a real cute white
b. V. D. under it. trimmed about the
waist with red, white and blue rib
bon. the loose ends of which flut-
tered in the breeze as he fought.
But to get back to the fight. Well.
as 1t was creeping on past 2:3o the
excitement got as thick as the
threatening clouds overhead. Every
BODY was whispering here he
comes" but nobody knew who was
meant, and all you had to do to
start something was to rubber An
any direction and point and say.
oh. lookf' and you had the wnoi.
mob with you. Well. when the an
nouncer got up on the platform fol-
lowed by bunch OF camera men.
the chief OF police, the governor and
the mayor. why We all fell for the
tact that something would be do
ing pretty soon. And this idea got
a further strangle hold on the
crowd when bunch of boys come
in carrying an enormous horseshoe
of roses and lilies, with the re-
mark Success" for a motto. but sue
cess to whom was not mentioned.
Feels Like Lamb Stew.
My. but it was hot, sitting there
in the crowd and all, and the ex-
know just how lamb stew feels
while it is being reheated for luncn
IeXt day after a hard night in the
ice box. and still we waited.
Then all at once lot of ladies'
commenced pouring in from every
entrance, and as there was a lot
of blue clothing amongst them. ]
had an awful scare thrown into me
for fear they was reformers and tn.
fight was to be stopped before. IL
had commenced. Then the an
nouncer started announcing. and so
the crowd got an idea Dempsey was
coming. so it stood up and hollereu
like mad. but what the annou~' .-.
said was, these ladies was going
to collect for the st. Francis Hos
pital," and -1he enthusiasm cooled
although l expect the generosity
did not. Anyhow, I think il was
real thoughtful OF them to start Il
hospital before the Dempsey-Car-
pentier bout, don't you? And then,
at last. come the two real boys.
Carp. Comes Into Ring.
Well. when Carpenter come in.
walking like an Apollo Belvedere, in
a bathrobe, the crowd went wild.
Oh. my gawd. what a man! Here
I been married to a motion-pictur
actor for three years, and they are
generally admitted to be pretty
classy lockers; but I think / have
mentioned have never seen a prize
fighter before. He looked like he
was treading on air, and there was
something about him besides his
good looks made my heart go out
to him the minute l see him. You
felt he was a gentleman and a real
herman clear through to the bone.
Although he said little or nothing,
he got across in a way which any
actor living would give their lives
to be able to do. And then come
Dempsey amidst a roar of enthusi-
asm.
And after everybody had shook
hands with everybody else and the
two fighters had bound up their
hands in case they got hurt, ana
put on their gloves-well, then the
fight was on, and though l couldn't
say 1 approve of fighting. I got TO
admit my heart jumped right up
into my throat. and J felt my head
would burst with excitement. You
see, this was the real thing, and
from the very first move even a
mere outsider and Admittedly
womanly woman like myself knew
the difference between they and the
ones which had gone before.
Get Beauty ParIor Rub.
Well, l expect you have seen
many fight your own self, SO 90
not need to describe this Yet I
will tell. for the information of
them which has never seen one,
that 1t amt as horrible as a person
would naturally expect. Also,
every time the bell rings each
fighter Is took to his own particu-
lar corner, where he sets down and
Is waited on without raising a
finger to help himself. while the.
:rowd of helpers turns in and gives
him a regular beauty parior trent