New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Doping Battle
Amusing Until
Punch Ends III
Under Ring Restrictions the
One Wallop Is All That
Will Count on July 2
BY lanes Hopper

There are many ways of trying tx
dope out the big Dempsey Carpenter
| fight. and it's an amusing game-till
one big wallop ends it all.
have friend out in California who
is poet. And have another frienc
who is strong man. And the poet
and the strong man are friends
| friends from days of childhood
The strong man is very strong. His
strength has an uncanny quality. Like
that one meets in those terrible sim
ians, the gorilla or the chimpanzee
And ne has fault which strong men
| sometimes have. He likes to impress
| you with his strength. To impress you
directly, / mean, by using it on you in
play.
He'll slap you on the back so that
your teeth almost fly out. He'll
squeeze your poor little biceps till they
bear. in blue print the proof of his
| terrible grip. When he greets YOU
| with a hand-shake he leaves your
| fingers all stuck together, mere dolor.
Gus paste. He does all this, of course.
with perfect good humor, gayly and
playfully, but when he's about you feel
| as II the earth's air pressure had in
creased tenfold; you're all tired out.
Poet Gives Strong Man Pause
| Well, one day this friend strong man
had thus been mauling my friend the
poet. And the poet abruptly got
| peeved.
Look here. Joe," he said very clearly
and distinctly, which is poets way to
fectly willing to admit that YOU'RE
stronger than l am. You've proved it
to me thousand times. But I want
you to remember this:
ANY time | want to l can go over
| and sit down under that tree over there
and in FIVE minutes l can write a SON
net
Then I can take that sonnet and
sell it for IS.
and come back here and fill you full of
holes."
The strong man, astounded. remained
with his mouth open, thinking it over.
Now, can we apply this story to a
| doping out of the chances of Car
pentier and Dempsey?
don't know. But it's good story
and l want to use it, so I'm poinp
to try.
There is no doubt that, under condi-
lions giving absolute freedom of place
| and instrument and method, with lib
erty for the fence and the blue ceiling
for limit, Carpenter, with his finer
intelligence and his greater elasticity
could best the champion.
He might, in fact, employ the very
means suggested by my friend the
poet. The French boxer at the present
moment, could earn much more easily
than my friend and with any old SON
net the SIS which would buy the gun
which would fill the champion full of
holes. You see, my friend is here
handicapped; he happens really to be
a poet.
Probably, though, Carpenter would
choose still easier way. For instance,
ne might, with his savings, get him
self plane with machine gun. Then,
mounting the plane, he would fly above
Dempsey, buzzing around and around
over his head and peppering him from
the machine gun, while below, the
champion, his great reach now Joke,
shook impotently his formidable fist.
Limitations Even in Natures Weapons
The trouble with all this is that it
premacy in which the two men will
engage on the I'd of July is not one
in which either contestant can use at
will what he considers his best facul-
ties.
The gladiators are strictly limited
There is a limit of space, bound by
ropes. Within that limited space no
airplane nor machine gun--nor sonnet
can be brought. Even horseshoes
are barred. The gladiators are held
down, for weapons, to the weapons
God gave Adam.
And even those limited. Barred is
the foot, which, we are told, if per-
mitted, the French contestant could
gracefully "savate." Barred are the