New-York tribune., 1921-05-26
I Does Is Min
sntes' Shadow Boxing i'm
Rambling Old Barn,
With His Right" Busy
By Fred Hawthorne

Different persons impress you differ
emily. With one man it will be the
flash of his eye; with another, his man
ner Of talking to you. In the case of
Georges Carpenter, boxing ace of
France" it is his right hand that lin
gers longest in your memory
It Jack Dempsey is to be beaten
down and deprived of his woria.s
heavyweight championship in Jersey
City on the afternoon of July ., it is
our prediction that q right-hand punch
from the slender Carpenters fist will
start Jack on the road to defeat.
Neither Dempsey nor any other man
now in the RING can take that straight
right on the chin and remain in an up
right position. The blow is delivered
with the snap Of whiplash, and with
the entire weight of Carpenters
swiftly moving body behind it, The
punch is whipped over with more speed
than q fast man usually has in a left
lab, and it has the sudden, jarring eff
feet Of dynamite.
No Sparring for Georges
Such is the impression we carried
away yesterday evening after a visit to
Carpenters training camp at Man
hassett, Long Island. The French cham
plon DID not do Sny sparring during
his hour of work in the rambling old
barn that has been fitted up with a
ring, punching bags, weight machines
and the other paraphernalia that form
a pugilist's nursery toys, but he did
about FIFTEEN minutes of shadow boxing
and five or six minutes with the light
and heavy bags, and how he did rip
across those deadly right-handers!
When Carpenter made his first visit
TO this country about a year ago, prior
to his battle with Levinsky in Jersey
City, we watched him training and saw
him knock the hapless "Battler" cold,
but at that time the Frenchman was
not nearly the formidable looking
fighter he is to-day.
At that time Georges looked frail
around the body, nor was his legs
sufficiently sturdy, it seemed, to stand
up under him in a bruising battle.
And although it was right-hand punch
that was responsible for Levinsky's
downfall Carpetier did not have the
same terrific power in the blow that
he has to-day.
1t was announced on Tuesday that
Georges would get into the ring with
Joe jeanette, Journee, the boxing cook,
and others of his sparring partners
yesterday, but, although Francois Des-
champs, the challenger's intensely Gal
lie manager, had said, 'Let Georges do
it." Georges didn't; not in public, any
how.
mo box until next week; no box
when it rain; no box in the barn; only
out there jabbered NJ. Descamps to
the newspaper men as he pointed
across the barnyard to where new,
steel-posted ring had been set up along
side a rail fence and two doors away
from the cows duplex apartments.
Deschamps Counting the Days
Deschamps added that there were still
thirty eight days left before the fight
and that Carpenter would not start
boxing until next Wednesday. "And if
it rain you better not come here-no
box"
Carpenter weat for a short run down
the winding country road as far as
Payne Whitney's estate and back again,
accompanied by Gus Wilson, his
trainer, early yesterday morning, and
8 o'clock in the afternoon, when he pad
died out to the barn, his feet protected
from the mud by pair of goloshes and
clad in silken bath robe.
First the French "ace" went through
ten minutes of shadow boxing in the
barn ring and his work was most i'm
pressive. Carpenters footwork is
amazingly quick and shifty; sometimes
he shuffles and at other moments he is
up on his toes. Georges shot over
every imaginable kind of blow, from
short left jabs to vicious uppercuts
with right and left hand and straight
rights and lefts.
The man who will battle Jack Dcmp-
sey before the greatest crowd that ever
saw ring battle, boxed yesterday with
q natural crouch, the body well pro-
tected from body blow, and he Is al
ways moving, shifting, twisting, so that
the men who watched the work out
gained the impression that Dem psey
may find it exceedingly difficult to land
enc of his crushing blows to the
Frenchman's body.
Next came several minutes of skip