The evening world., 1921-05-21
ABILITY TOH|T
AND SPEED MAKES
UNBEATABLE FORM
"Jack Won't Land Those Hard
Punches on a Fast, Clever
Man," Says Jeff, Who
Thinks Well of the French
mans Chance to Capture
Worlds Title.
By Robert Ed0ren.

v On a flying trip to the Coast
carried an invitation from Tex Rick
ard to Jeffries on his San Fernando
Valley ranch to be Richards guest at
the Dempsey Carpenter bout.
Guess I'll So" said JEFF. "IN
have my oil wells going by that time
and the ranch in good shape, so that
and I'd like TO see this fight. Is the
Frenchman as fast as they say?"
Fast as any heavyweight you ever
saw" said.
Can ne punch-has he a real
kick?"
"He punches hard enough to suit
anybody"
Then he'll beat Jack" said JET
suddenly. u know Jack wei and
think lot OF him. Hc used to come
over to see me and bring his mother
along, and he's a fine fellow and 4
good fighter. But il the Frenchman
s as clever as they say, and can hit,
he has a first class chance. That's all
there is to it."
well, Jack isn't so slow himself,
and he knocks 'em out in a round"
suggested.
''He won't land those hard punches
on a fast. clever man." said Jeftrics.
II Carpenter is anything like Cor
oett in clevernesS Dempsey isn't
going 10 sock him the way he did
Willard. A fast, clever man won't
let Dempsey land his hardest
punches. If the Frenchman knows
now TO take care OF himself he's
going to give Jack n fight. / know
how hard it was to hit Corbett where
it would do any good. II Corbett
would have been q great tighter. but
Of course he couldn't hit. They say
the Frenchman is as fast and clever
as Corbett ever was, and he has a
punch. You give n fast, clever
man a punch, and he's likely TO slip
IL over on Dempsey or any one else"
THE GREAT QUESTION.
Has Carpenter a punch? His
speed and skill are unquestioned. He
Is known to be remarkably cool and
crafty in the rng-a born general
and II he'd never boxed his war rec
ord would be proof enough of his
EamenesS.
But has he a punch?
Let's look back over Carpenters
= ring record a little.
Georges began boxing when he was
only twelve years old, and fought
three ring battles at thirteen, winning
Two and losing one. When only
fifteen he fought many of the best
bantamweights, French and English.
He fought flfteen-round bout with
the famous Charles Ledoux, one Of
Che strongest and hardest hitting
little men France ever turned out
and Georges earned the decision.
He fought fifteen battles in his
fifteenth year, and more when he was
sixteen At seventeen he WAS going
like a streak, beating Frank LouEh-
rey. Jack GOldswain. Young Joseph,
Arthur Everndon, sid Burns and
Harry Lewis. He beat Lewis in
twenty rounds, and Lewis at that
rime was one of the best mid
dleweights in the American ring,
o rugged, clever, aggressive fighter.
centage Of his fights with clean
knockouts. He seemed able to
knock out the English champions,
winning all the titles from bantam
weight with X. o. punches.
At 1s. n tall. slim boy, Carpenter
Knocked out Battling LaCroiX and
. was matched with Jim Sullivan, Eng
fish middleweight champion, clever
boxer who was regarded in England
as a world-beater In his class. Many
Englishmen travelled to Monte Carlo
10 see the fight and back their man
heavily. Carpenter attacked so furi-
ously that he Knocked the English
champion out in the second round
End Sullivan hardly had time to land
q punch. Shortly aftcrward Carpen-
1ier beat George Gunther, twenty
lounds, knocked out Huber Roc ana
Eeat Willie Lewis OF America in
twenty rounds. Lewis had been
knocking out n long lire of English
heavywe LShts, but he had no chance
with the dying Frenchman.
DEScAMPS SAVED HIM.
For a little while Carpenters fight
.ng form went off. He lost to Frank
Klaus, worlds champion, on a foul
n the 10Th round at pieppc and to
IIlly Papke, former worlds champion,
1T Paris. Descamps, Carpenters
nanager, jumped into the ring 70
save Georges in the 18th round, but
lie was only eighteen at that time,
md was said to be weak from grow
ing too fast. He had grown from 4
bantam to middlcwcight in three
wears, lighting all tho time.
When he was nineteen he grew
gtronger and started l knockout
-treak. He beat rugged Marcel
-Ioreau in rounds, knocked out
Bandsman Rico in ,, Cyclone Smta
in 3, George Gunther in II ana then
was matched to fight BomDadtcr
Wells at Ghent in Belgium.
Carpenter wos rtill middle
weight and Wells was the clJyorcSt
heavyweight turned out in Engaul
since Mitchol's time, six feet three
and half inches tall, 8pleHdidly
"A sharp, hard hitter. English sports.
,I;c, went over to win hack the money
they'd been losing when Carpenter