The Washington times., 1921-06-10

Pipe the INST.
John L. Sullivan. Jim Corbett
Robert Fitzsimmons (the only ex.
ception), Jim Jeffries. Jack Johnson
Jess willard. Jack Dempsey.
II Carpenters Christian name be-
gan with J we might say that II
was a bunch. II 1t were Jerry OF
Jacques or Judson or Jerome many
a bloke would bet on the bunch
Fitz broke through with an r.
Maybe Carpenter can bust in with
a @. What'li you bet he won't?
Dave Smith. the Australian mid
dleweight, who saw the Carpenter
Klaus night at Dieppe. France
writes the following interesting let
ter to the Sydney Referee:
When in England in 1912 / hap
pened to be in Liverpool. and a dis
cussion arose regarding the project
ed contest between Carpenter and
klaus, so I decided to have look
at 1t, and. II possible. have a cut at
the Frenchman myself. The con-
test was held in the coastal town in
France, Dieppe.
WAS VERY sHREwD FELLOW.
The promoter. whom / afterwards
met, was a very shrewd fellow.
httCT 6hiH6 pokh WYE ~ no NUM-
ed for town to hold the contest.
He approached the deputy Of the
different places, asking what each
would offer to have the bout staged.
Dieppe bid highest, and SO; got the
mill. The promoter himself told me
he had more money guaranteed than
he had to pay both boxers. The
house. to use an Australian express
sion, was all cop The guarantee
money was collected from. the Cash
noes, hotels and other public places.
and even the taxi men had to pay
their share. My hotel rate was
usually twenty francs a day. They
charged all visitors forty francs .
day. I, being a boxer, was charged
the usual prices. So got OF lightly.
The contest was held In a railway
goods shed. The streets leading to
the convincing place were lined with
befiagged poles
The carnival opened on Sunday.
when Digger Stanley, the balf-Gipsy
English boy. was defeated by Lee
deaux. 1851
Monday was the day of the big
mill. A big crowd assembled. Fully
5000 or 5000 persons attended, of
which 1000 were ladies.
GOT FLAT.rERING RECEPTION.
sitting at the ringside with an
English writer's wife, l was sur
prised when Billy Papke came in and
sat next to me. We were both intro
duced to the audience and got a fat
tering reception. Frank Klaus was
In the ring. He looked a Les Darcy
sitting in his corner-short, tough
and rugged. Carpenter, who received
an ovation-nowers, confetti and
kisses, .etc.--looked something like
our Les O'DonnelI OF years ago. just
an overgrown boy, The night itself
needs little describing. Klaus, who en-
ployed the cyclone Thompson method
of boring in, simply took all Georges
punches to the head, and walloped
lefts and right to the body, and he
soon had the Frenchmen in Queer
street. One can hardly believe the
tales of Carpenters wonderful foot
work one hears today. Then he
spread hts feet too far apart and was
fatfooted.
THE ffth round saw Georges on
the floor. Though knocked down re-
peatedly. he battied away till the
nineteenth round. Then Descamps
pulled the cleverest thing in the his
tory Of the ring. Georges was get
ting a fearful mauling in a mix up
when Descamps Jumped into the ring,
and Carpenter lost the contsss
through a breach of rules. Instead OF
being defeated by the X. o. he was .
martyr to a hot-beaded second. Can
you beat that?
IF Dempsey. Is Of the same gum
chewing. tough species OF man Klaus
was think he will take all Georges
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