The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-02
THOUSANDS AT
 STAKE IN BIG BATTLE

(Continued from Page one) fight go? The answer lay on the knees of the gods.
 Dempsey, grim, bristling with a imitation to erase the claims of | Georges Carpentier from the heavy | weight slate as quickly as possible, | will walk into the ring prime fa- vorite.
 Dempsey Fit Physically. | Dempsey is ready. Regardless of the sinister insinuations that have | been made by various critics about his physical condition, the champion | is fit He has trained for ten weeks. This period of training has been too | long to suit Dempsey yet he has come through 1t in remarkable shape and if he showed a touch of grouchiness now and then who could blame him It has been merely the impotence and the nervousness of fine condition that cropped out.
 trim. He is as finely drawn as is pos sible for a battler of his build and inches. He will go into the ring weighing about TIP. pounds against trained according to methods he has found to suit his condition over 15 years of ring experience and the fistlc public may rest assured that he has overlooked nothing that might help him wrest the worlds championship from the bronzed brow of Jack Demp- sey-
 Carpenter is confident, too. He has nothing to lose; everything to gain. He is cool as a nice fat cu- cumber planted in ice, according to the voluble Descamps, his manager. He believes that he will win and he hopes to do so within five rounds. So sure is Descamps that his French title holder will drop the big boy from Salt Lake that he has asked Tex Rickard for cash figure on a bout between Georges and any chal- lenger Tex may select for Labor Day.
 Dempsey Camp Confident.
 This confiden thing is not one sided, however. The camp of Jack Dempsey breaths confidence, too The champion, of course, has all to lose and battling, now, is nothing new to him. Two short years ago Dempsey was climbing the ladder; just looking fame in the face. To- force that can be directed against him. It is the old story of the crowd calling for a new title holder and a change of scenery. It is not that Dempsey lacks popularity. He has a large and loyal following. It's just because the public is fickle and always ready to acclaim a man who can dethrone another in the world or sport.
 Dempsey will win unless the big crowd fills this huge wooden bowl this afternoon is destined to witness the most surprising encounter in the history of the game True few ia. vorites have come through in past years of fistic history. But Dempsey is different. He is forceful, cy- clonic and above all he likes to hght. He has youth on his side, too, being full year younger than Carpenter. He may -ot be the annihilating gladiator th;a: faced Jess Willard at Toledo. But to all intents and purposes he is INT in req adiness for Carp over whom he holds every physical advantage
 Dempsey's supporters feel sure that he will ldefeat the dapper Carpenter in few rounds. Carpenter may surprise them. The F'renchman IS going to enter the ring wrapped in the cloud of mystery he has built around himself in more than month of training at picturesque Manhasset.
 What is this Georges. anyway a fighter? An actor? what The questions until they have become weary of trying to figure Georges out. A few of them have settled the argu- ment by banking on his past record and telling themselves that he has hidden his real ability. But has he? Did Georges refuse to box at his best speed with American fight experts Looking on because he has some of the greatest tricks in the history Of the game up his sleeve? Or was it because he is just an ordinary boxer after all, who came touted as a won der and wanted to keep his reputa- ton unsu1lied by the caustic remarks of relentless experts? These ques- tions that will be answered within this great octagonal arena. this after noon after the weather god permits.
 When chief time keeper Joe Ban non hangs the gong it is a practical certainty that Jack Dempsey will leap from his corner with all the ferocity of a tiger just as he did three years ago at Newark when he met Fred Full ton. Dempsey will make rushing fight of it. He hopes to finish his challenger in a few rounds and he is going out to make a quick and artis- tic job of it.
 Carpenter will make it a running battle in the early rounds if possible. He wants to get the range on Demp sey. He wants a chance to study the champ; to measure him for the cloak of defeat. He is not sure in his heart, that he can bring this Tfgerish fellow down and he hopes that he will be able to stay out of tl1e way of Dempsey's vicious blows long enough to solve the problem of winning. But can he do this? An swer this question and you have the story of the fight in a nutshell. Dempsey will win inside of half a dozen rounds or the fight may go tue distance with Carpenter the pop u1ar winner on points and Dempsey still in possession of the worlds title.