The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-25
By FRANK e.. MENKE

No fighter in history ever was more
amazingly touted than has been
Georges Carpenter And no ringman
ever has appealed to American sport
writers as more of an absolute bust
than the same Frenchman
How come?
Europe is wild over him; France in
particular is delirious. Over there
they regard him as the greatest
knuckle shower Of this age-o- any
Over here fistic critics, almost unani-
mously cannot concede him a chance
against the mighty mauler from Utah.
How come?
Well, based on European standards,
where they haven't produced a great
heavyweight in 80 years. Carpenter
| is great. But that doesn't necessarily
! make him more than second or third
| rater in America
Appeals in Bush League
Carpenter appeals as an outstand-
| ing star in the bush league of pugil-
ism.
The man who lives in a minor
league baseball town and has never
| seen big leaguers in action, goes wild
over the proves of the star mounds
| man of the circuit. Never having
come into contact with major league
class. that fan has no basis for com
| parison. And so he would be willing
| TO bet all he's got that his hero
pitcher could hop into any league and
| duplicate his minor league work. For
without a standard for comparison all
| leagues are alike TO him.
But with astonishing regularity
pitchers are volleyed from the minors
to the majors, are promptly volleyed
right back by the hickory bludgeons
of the big league swatsmiths. It's
because the majors outclass the
minors.
Best in Europe.
It's much like that in Europe Car
pentier unquestionably is the best
| heavyweight there-the starriest per
former since Charlie Mitchell's day
Because he is that and because
Europe hasn't seen the amazing Demp
sey-it is blind to what comparison
would show But over here they're
not. All fighters are judged by Amer
= lean standards-and the American pug
I. list is the standard by which al
others must be judged.
Glass will tell" is an old expression
and rather pertinent It certainly
holds coed in every division Of the
athletic world. Occasionally there are
ip-fops-nothing in life constant,
runs true to form. But the exceptions
are rare. The best horse usually wins
the best ball club usually wins; the
; best tennis and golf player usually
rOmps homo in front.
And so it is in pugilistic endeavor.
Champions Fight.
Cheese champicns"-men who have
risen to the crest through a fiuke-
rarely last long. Champions of worth
champions Of greatness-linger in
definitely at the crest Much hula
baloo often is made about certain as
pirants for the title. But when the
battle is waged, it's the champion's
night all the way-while the champion
holds TO condition and fights the
heady sort OF battle that carried hin
upward TO tee peak of his division.
On July , q brace of fstic gladiator:
will be tossed into a ring, a gong will
bang-and the milling will be on. Ont
man has every physical advantage
over the other; he's 4 man who never
was actually knocked out in his life
he has crushed into inconsistencies!
nearly every man he has faced il
more than three years And in al
that time no fOeman ever has landed
soidly on his head and body-and NJ
) r1T"l ever remained on his feet afte