New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Bettors Give
Georges Little
Hope for X. @.
Speculative Gents Readily
Offer 20 to Frenchrnan
Doesn't Stop Champion

The speculative gents OF Wall Street
have decided that the chance OF
Georges Carpenter to drop Jack Demp~
sey is one out Of twenty, and are back
ing tus conviction with cash. This in
dlcates that the secret training Of Car
blow which he is perfecting to use on
July have not made much impression
on the speculative gents.
There are many factors combined to
develop the conviction in the specula-
less than the traditional Chinaman's
chance of knocking out Dempsey.
First, Dempsey is tWo-handed fighter,
where Carpenter is, for all intents and
purposes of the manly art of mauling,
one-handed fighter. Carpenter is
Trailer and about twenty-five pounds
lighter than Dempsey. The record Of
the poilu champion is comparatively
unimpressive. Then, Carpenter is com
paratively aged for boxer.
When Dempsey dropped Willard at
Toledo on the Fourth of July two
years ago he loomed up as the hardest
hitter that ever fought under Queens
berry rules. In the first fervor of
astonishment over the feat the experts
declared that Dempsey was the great
est ring fighter of all times.
Then came the Miske bout, and the
experts began to wonder. 1t is our
personal opinion that you can scratch
the Miske bout in going over the record
of Dempsey. 1t was, in way, what
Jimmy Johnston, the boy bandit Of
Madison Square, would call zone of
those things"
Throw Out Miske Bout
Miske went into the ring knowing
that he was TO be knocked out at
Dempsey's pleasure. He looked about
as bewildered and as helpless as a
white rabbit tossed into cage to fur
He was about as confident as man be-
ing led to the electric chair.
In that bout Dempsey paved with his
chalky-faced victim until the ring
siders began to whistle, indicating that
the champion was carrying" the VIC
tim along. Then Dempsey reached over
and ended it. He could have done this
within the first ten seconds.
The bout with Bill Brennan is the
puzzling one. Dempsey made rather
poor showing for champion here. He
came close to having himself decorated
with the Order Of the Caulitiower Ear,
and while he eventually dropped the
stout-hearted porkand-beaner he suf-
fered considerable humiliation.
There are many excuses offered for
the showing of Dempsey in this bout.
He was not trained properly, they say,
and could not get started. To mere
looker-on it seemed that Dempsey
started slowly, intending to finish with,
rush, and then found that he had
loft <O
While it might have seemed to some
that Brennan at one time had chance
to land the championship, anybody who
watched the bout closely saw that
there could be only one end. All through
the bout Dempsey was playing meth od-
ically to the body. One or two of these
punches landed in every round and the
| accumulated punishment was wearing
Brennan down. The knock ut-the
rabbit punch-signified nothing. Bren-
nan was through because of the body
punches long before the rabbit blow
was delivered.
Dempsey in Good Shape
| The Dempsey of the Brennan fight
| did not look like the Dempsey of the
Toledo battle. but to anybody who
knows the boxing game he did not at
any time during the bout at Madison
Square Garden look as though he would
| lose his title.
One thing is certain, that the Demp-
sey who will meet Carpenter on July 2
will be as close to the Dempsey who
met Willard as he can be. 1t is pretty
hard, therefore, to see where Carpen-
tier the fragile, Carpenter the mys-
| terious. has much of chance.
| In the mean time it seems hardly fair
tc pick on Carpenter and Dschamps fol-
| their methods of training. They are
entitled to their secrecy, if they think
that it will help them. But if they are
counting on the psychological effect
upon Dempsey they are doomed to dis
appointment.
If Dempsey could not be impressed
by the bulk and the reputation of Will
lard, he will not be greatly worried
1 over the stories of secret blows and
! secret strategy.