The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-02
Dempsey Was Favorite as Hour
Drew Near for Worlds
Championship Bout
JERSEY CITY COMPARED
TO "A HUMAN VOLCANO
Extreme Confidence Expressed
By Both Camps Before
ts~2ss Fight Started
By Henry l.. Farrell, I,
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

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Jersey City, N. j., July 2.---Jersey
City zteemed today with the erup-
lions of human volcano. .5.....-.-.
1T seems that, every soul in the
world and his. relative were pour
ing up out of holes in the ground
to see Jack Dempsey and Georges
Carpenter decide the heavyweight
championship of the world.
Tube trains rolling under the Hud-
son River at minute intervals were
damned from early morning. Ferries
on fast schedules carried their thous-
ands of pedestrians and hundreds of
automobiles. Trains from the west
dumped dusty. travel stained passen-
gers from adjoining states and cities
Before dawn the usual worlds Sc
.ries spectacle was presented outside
the hinge. wooden octagon which Tex
Richard pitched on "Royle's Thirty
Acres" for the big international bat
tie between the American champion
and the French war hero and nation
al idol. #y~.-~,.-.
Thousands of men and women and
children were, in the lines extending
for blocks away from the windows
where general admission tickets were
passed out for five dollars. The line
leaders, most of whom brought stools,
camp chairs and lunch baskets, ap-
parently thought nothing of an all
might wait to get a place in the big
bowl far back from the ring in which
the two contestants would look like
two miniatures. -'-
Two thousand police, including
the Jersey City force, with additions
from New York, Newark and the pick
,of sletths from all the big western
cities and mounted state troops pre-
served order in the crowds and kept
the traffic moving on the narrow
streets. .s ~ Ill.,.
Ticket holders who had paid from
SO to $50 for reserve seat also
started filling their, places early in
the morning stocked with newspa-
perg and magazines to pass away the
time. r..
Listening to the talk every place it
was hard to believe that the thous-
.ands, 1t seemed almost like millions,
sounded more like the fight was over.
that the battle had been fought and
that the American champion had fin
ished the Frenchman.
Bets four to one and five to one
that Dempsey would win found no
takers Those with money to wager
liked, better to back, their judgment
on the round that it would happen
in and how it would take place. Few
seemed to figure the Frenchman as
having a chance. i'..
Statements from both camps de-
clared THE fighters to be in perfect
condition to do twelve rounds for a
half million dollars or more. Man.
ayers of both also expressed their
confidence in winning.
'prhe champion is in perfect physi-
cal condition and he is not suffering
with nerves: We expect to win just
as soon as possible" Jack Kearns,
manager of the champion said.
'.Carpentier is fit and ready to
fight the greatest battle Of his life.
We have the greatest confidence. The
fight will not last long," Francois
Descam manager of the French
man said. =
Weights of the two principals were
not announced this morning but Mt
was expected that the champion
would weigh around 100 pounds
with the challenger around l75
pounds. ..@.s
The champion, who moved up to a
private home here from his training
camp in Atlantic City kept out OF
sight. Teddy Hayes, his chief train
err, said he took his usual morning
exercise but he was not seen or at
least not recognized by any OF the
crowd. No one except a few chosen
friends and some newspapermen were
permitted around Dempsey's QUAR-
tiers. ~. ~
Carpenter remained over night at
his training farm at Manhasset, L.. l..
He was to drive over with his retinue
lust before the battle and go imme-
diately to his dressing room. Special
police precautions were arranged TO
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