New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
This Bout Will
BE Without Its
Bit Of Badi1nasge
y
Dempsey Uses Mo Language
in the Ring; Carpenter
LIS Also q Silent Battler
By Heywood Broun

This fight promises to be one for
the eyes alone. There will be nothing
to hear in the ring except the thump
of gloves and perhaps the crash of a
falling body, followed by little count
ing. Dempsey does not talk while he
hgnts and neither does Carpenter. and
even If they did they couldn't under
stand each other, and SO that's that,
but silence is not traditional in the
prlzering. Other champions have chat
tered. 1t was almost as much fun to
Ilsten to Jack Johnson as to watch
hlm. He kept up a running fire Of
comment during the fight with JEFF
1rles' Working round to the corner
where the late Bill Naughton sat die
tating story, he called out, "Get tbis
INTO your story Mr., Naughton," and pro-
ceeded to smack Jeffries with three
straight lefts in succession. Sam Lang
1ord on one occasion when matches i
against a white hope enthusiastically
Jouted by a local sporting writer,
oacked his man directly in front of the
rlngslde seat where the reporter sat
and shouting, Here comes your cham
plonv' knocked the white man through
the ropes and almost into the Ian Of
mis- admirer. Young Corbett is sup
posed to have gained his successes
against Terry McGovern by whispering
In his ear insults so obscene that Terry
would forget to guard In the intensity
or his rage and leave himself wide open
for knockout punch. Kid McCoy was
also aware of the usefulness Of y taunt
in time and Jim Corbett had q rood
deal to say for himself.
Dempsey Wastes no Words
Even in defeat Jack johnson want
down talking. Look at the little red
spot on that white boys body" he
calied out at one stage Of the fight
with Willard and then drove home his
INST and left the mark of which he had
spoken. AS the tide turned against
johnson Southerner, sitting near the
Iringside, began to heap abuse upon
him and Johnson kept answering him
until little bit before the end. when
he, nc called down to his tormentor:
white man. you're down there talk
ing; I'm up here fighting"
mere must be certain swank and
sWagger to the fighter who wants to
tell the world what he is doing as we'll
as to show it. In Dempsey both these
qualities seem to be lacking. He has
little to say about his fighting prowess
even outside the ring. Probably he is
the most modest champion America
has known. In fact his diffidence goes
little beyond modesty. A psycho-
analyst would very likely find that
Jack Dempsey has an inferio1ity COM
pick about all things except one. He is
by no means dun witted, but he is
aware of the fact that nothing much
has been put into his head and he.
proffers opinions in regard to almost
everything gingerly.
This may very we'll explain his fond
ness for dogs and for children. Dogs
made a god of man whether he is or
not. We like to have them around be-
cause they fatter our vanity by the
frankness of their adulation and ad-
miration. Dempsey is hard on SPAR
ring partners but kind to dogs. The
two big police dogs at the camp are
his violent partisans. But he has &C
complished more difficult conquest
than that in camp. The three old
women who cook and wait on table in
the Airport camp are just as obviously
his slaves. No matter what reception
the crowd may give Dempsey he will
take into the ring with him the con-
ISOLATION that he is hero to his cook.
Jeers May Spur Him
He is keenly sensitive to the criti
cism of crowds. The newspaper cam
paign against him hurt. He was not
insensitive to the jeering of the crowd
at Madison Square Garden the night he
fought Brennan. If there are ieers in