The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-28
BIG FIGHTERS
 ARE NEARLY OF
 SAMESTATURE
(By Associated Press)

urday, Dempsey and Carpenter will otherwise appear almost equal in build and stature. If both were to mix in among few collegiate ath- letes football players and oarsmen, probably neither would be picked out as being unusually big or formidable in general makeup. Dempsey stands 6 feet, 1h inches, just two inches taller than the French champion and while Carpenter will weigh about 170 pounds in fighting condition, Dempsey expects to enter the ring slightly under 190 pounds.
 The champions shoulders are broad while Carpenters are sloping in shape but otherwise the bodily measurements of the pair do not differ to any marked extent.
 Experts who have seen both men are satisfied that they will be we'll matched in speed and cleverness but the majority believe that Dempsey will carry by far the heavier weight in his blows. Dexterity and supple ness are claimed as advantages for the Frenchpan by his followers but just how hard a punch he can de- liver is still problem.
 Dempsey showed in his bout with Willard at Toledo that his blows possess enormous punishing power but his more recent encounters with Bill Brennan at Madison Square Gar den did not demonstrate that he still retains the forceful punch necessary to successfully stand off man of Carpenters undoubted ability and cleverness.
 Just how good the challenger is or how hard blow he can land is problematical to the majority of American fistic patrons, who have seen him in action. His only bout here, that with Levinsky in Jersey City last year, did not afford much of a line on Carpenters prowess. Levinsky, always clever boxer, made practically no serious effort to defend himself on that occasion and went down and out an easy vic tim for the Frenchman in the fourth round.
 Nearly 30 years have elapsed since Queensberry rules and glove contests were substituted for the London prize ring code governing pugilistic contests for champion ship titles. In most of the bouts fought for the heavyweight champion ship since the change took place, there was a decided advantage in stature between the principals, but this did not always carry victory with it.
 Beginning with the Corbett-Sulli- van battle at New Orleans in 1892, the big Boston man was massive in proportion to the 1.-the, supple and extremely clever Californian but the smaller man bore the big champion down and annexed the title in the 21st round. Corbett was one and one-half inches taller but 15 pounds | lighter than Sullivan who stood 5 feet 1Oh inches and weighed about 200 pounds.
 Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons were more evenly matched in height and age. Corbett was half an inch taller and four years younger than the Cornishman but he was nearly 20 pounds heavier than Fitzsimmons when the latter knocked him out and won the title at Carson City, March IF, 1897
 Two years later James J. Jeffries of huge build and outweighed Fitz- simmons by fully 50 pounds won the title in Il rounds from Bob at Coney Island and five months later, Mo- vember, 1899, Jeffries got a referees decision over Tom Sharkey in a 25- round bout in the same arena. Sharkey was several inches shorter and about 20 pounds lighter than the then champion.
 Corbett challenged Jeffries twice for the title but was knocked out by the bigger man each time, once in 23 rounds and the next time in 10 rounds.
 Jack Johnson, the negro who defeat ed Jeffries at Reno. Nev., in 1910, was nearer to the big mans size than any of theother heavyweights who had met him for the title In tho previous ten years. Johnson was three years younger, one inch short