The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-30
FRENCH BOXER HAS UPPERCUT
 THAT EAWFUL
BY BILL uNMACK

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.-Some of the experts watching Georges Car pentier have discovered that the French challenger has deadly uppercut." At least two writers have vividly commented on this punch and they brought out the fact that Car pentier pulled" the punch, which in the opinion of the experts proved to them he was trying to hide such a blow in his training.
 There is nothing new in this upper cut of the French champion. The writer say Carpenter knock Dick Smith silly with that same punch. The next time these experts see Georges training and he brings up one with his left hand instead of his right columns will again be written on the left hand deadly up. percut." There will be nothing new in that for these two punches are just as natural to Carpenter as can be.
 The first time I say Carpenter was in training in Paris and at that time in company with several Americans including Bob Martin of the A. E. F. heavyweight boxing champion, Jimmie Bronson his manager and others we saw those uppercuts. The blows come from evidently nowhere, travel with the speed of lightning and land like trip-hammer Martin, Bronson and myself were taken back at what we saw, and later when we saw Dick Smith knocked out by that right hand uppercut we real ized the damaging capabilities of the blow as worked by Carpenter
 Of all the great heavyweight cham pions of the past and present never have I witnessed such a finished and beautifully executed uppercut as Carpenter is possessed of. There is no such thing as telegram" of
 
 nowhere and what is more it travels only few inches. Carpenter only has to have about six or eight inches drive for this blow and if he ever lands it with an unlimited swing, Dempsey or anyone else will rass into slumber land. If the Frenchman feints Dempsey and puts over his uppercut either with the right or left hand the world cham pion will have to be a superman if he does not go to the floor tenn porarily at least.
 Personally, I think Carpenter is the cleverest "bOxer' in the world to- day If the Dempsey-Carpentier af- fair was to be an out and out boxing contest with the decision resting on technique, skill and cleverness Demp- sey would not have look-in. There is no question, however, but that both boxers are going into the ring prepared to slug and be slugged. If l it is otherwise, Carpenter will dis play a brand of boxing that will bring forth columns and columns of data on his class as boxer. He has a writhing, swaying motion in the ring, way of lodging his head and lowering his shoulders that constantly makes an adversary miss" and if this state of affairs | is brought about and the world champion Dempsey is forced into missing" his blows and thrown off balance the willy cat-like moving Car pentier will be on him in a flash Everybody at Dempsey's camp says that Dempsey can't lose. I say Carpenter can win and has better than fiftyfifty chance to win. The preponderance of weight shown by Dempsey in my estimation makes little or no difference in this con- test which is of limited duration. If Carpenter can stand up under the rushing tactics of Dempsey and if the Frenchman can stay five rounds,
 then the "hero of Verdun" has a