The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-22

The press work on the so-called information
a prize fight is the old press work OF earlier
wears with the additional assistance of the pic
lures It is no better than previous press stuff
but the pictures are better and easier to get.
Don't get excited over the international
feature of it. 1t is staged for the money, not for
the match between the Frenchman and an alleged /
American representative. The press agents are
busy from a sordid side. Of course the boys who
do the sports press reports have to hold their
jobs. They need em.
The pictures are good. We see Dempseys
lawful ARM displayed to the best advantage. NOW
there are probably dozens of arms right mere IN
the city limits that would photograph well. With
out any manner of real doubt there are thousands
of men going about their daily work quietly il
nthis country who if occasion demanded would
throw both fighters out of their homes and down
a row of cement steps for a goal. Neither Demp-
sew nor CARPENTER are the "best men" in Amer
lea or in France. They are simply the selections
of commercial pugilism. That's all. Outside the
ring and it's restrictions there are probably hum
dreds and hundreds of men in both America and
France who would run down these champions
light on them as bee lights on posy and PICK
them apart as hawk does hen. And some OF
them never had fight in their lives. But there
| is grand difference between fighting man to
man for your life with all the rules abolished and
scrapping with gloves in limited rounds in a ring.
Mr. Dempsey seems to have understood all that
when the draft struck US.
! CARPENTER however is a different character
with different record. He is entitled to repre-
sent France in an international prize fight. He
fought for France gladly and willingly with his
life in his hand. That's why most of us hope ne
will knock Dempsey for six miles of concrete high
way. But that doesn't affect the fact that the
fight is staged by promoter who hopes to make
a fortune out of it and that both fighters figure
they'll be on easy street the rest of their lives
after it is over. The things sordid, managed
advertised Most of the press stuff is bunk. IT.
q as sordid as the midway of street carnival ant
f the ballyho and noise have the same incentive be
hind them. 1t isn't sport. It's out for the coin.
r some of us openly and some of us quietly in tn
:, study of the parsonage perhaps. That's becaus
all of us like fight, contest, the measuring Q
man against man.
1t will probably be pretty good fight; bu
it will not be American against Franchman. Nc
a by thousands of $25 and $50 seats 1t will be tw
at !pugilists fighting for the money and promote
st rubbing his hands when he counts the crowd.
Is Why these little fights we have in Montar
nt between second raters are more honest in most
ze their purposes, genuine, more real than tn
at big go that is now getting more publicity than
st real war. They too, come nearer being real spo
for the clubs. that stage them are not makiY
ng money, they are merely giving the people spol
SIS I Nevertheless well all follow the stories al
lie. look at the pictures and we'll all grab the pap
I'D when the report arrives, that is most of us w