New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08
Tom Gibbons
Likely to Take
On Creb First
Winner Probably VIII Get
Chance at Carpenter;
Champion to Return Soon
By Jack Lawrence

BY Jack Lawrence
While Tex Richard, lessee of the
giant boxing arena in Jersey City, has
not yet made any official announcement
concerning the next big battle to bs
staged within the huge octagon Of pine,
1t IS practically certain that the bout
Will bring together Georges Carpenter
and Tom Gibbons.
A tentative agreement to this end is
said to have been reached yesterday
Deschamps, manager of the French
champion, and it is probable that arti-
cles will be signed before the battling
pollu sails for France on the liner
Savoie, scheduled to leave this port for
Havre on July IA.
Carpenters trip abroad will be a
hurried transatlantic dash that will
bring him back to the soil of the Unit
ed States within five weeks rom the
date of his departure, according to the
itinerary laid out by Manager Des-
champs. The French adonis expects 20
spend only week with his wife and
little girl in Paris before starting
again for America. 1t is possible that
he may bring his family back with him.
Retains Training Camp
During his absence Carpenters
training camp at Manhasset will be re-
tanned and he will prepare there for
his fight with Gibbons. The date of
this encounter has been tentatively set
for Columbus Day, October u. but this
depends largely upon the rapidity with
which Carpenters right-hand heals. 1t
was injured in his cham pionship battle
with Jack Dempsey last Saturday.
According to the doctors who have
taken N-ray photographs of the frac-
trred mitt and have been treating it
daily, the hand will be ready for ring
service by Labor Day. Deschamps
however, is determined to take no
winner and will not permit him to
bring it in sharp contact with hard
jawbone until it is thoroughly mended
Richard said last night that no Off
cial announcement concerning Carpen-
tiers next ring appearance in this
country would be given out before
Monday. 1t is possible that Harry Gret
may be matched with Tom Gibbons, the
battle to take place in Richards Jersey
City arena, and that the winner will b.
Carpenters next opponent. Richard i!
known to favor this plan and is said tx
be striving to put it through.
While Jack Kearns, manager of Jacl
| Dempsey, said last night that he had a.
yet received no offers for another cham
! pionship fight, it was taken for granite,
! in sporting circles yesterday that Car
pentier's conqueror will be one of tn
principals in the main event of hight.
attractive boxing program to be put OF
at Boyle's Thirty Acres on Labor Day
Dempsey Back in Week
Kearns received a telegram from
Dempsey yesterday afternoon in which
the champion said he left Chicago late
Wednesday night and expects to reach
Salt Lake City, the home of his mother
tomorrow. He will remain at Sal
Lake for more than a week, and will b.
back in New York on July 81.
Kearns denied emphatically last nigh
that there was any rent due on the
and his retinue Of handlers in At
lantic City.
1--WE don't owe a cent to anybody il
Atlantic City" Kearns said to ths
writer "We settled up all our &C
counts before leaving there, and il
there is any unpaid rent due on the
houses we occupied it is owed by peo-
-ple who had them before we took pos.
session. The rent of the two houses
for the period of our occupancy was
SO 600, and this was settled in full be-
fore we left.
"If Jack is matched for another fight
in the East he will do his training al
Atlantic City, although l am not Ger.
tain that we will locate in Airport.
have received no offers of another fight
Jacks return to this city on July 81"
Choppy Right to Jaw Wins
Richard, Deschamps and Carpenter
went to Newark yesterday and saw foi
the first time the moving pictures Of
last Saturdays historic ba1tle. Rickarc
declared afterward that the pictures
settle very definitely the rather heated
discussion that has revolved about the
manner in which Dempsey delivered The
final blow of the fght-the one thai
sent the Frenchman to the canvas fol-
the fatal count of ten.
Some have held that the last wallor
was a terrific right-hand swing thai
struck Carpenter just above the heart
! while others contend that it was {
choppy right to the jaw. The latter
version is correct, according t. Rick
ard.
'The final moments of the grea
fight are shown very distinctly on tn,
SCREEN said the promoter. "The pic
lures show that the blow before th'
last one was sharp left to the jaw
This was followed Immediately by
terrific right hook that struck tn
Frenchman about midway between hi
! left ear and the point Of his chin. TIL
pictures show that he had started t.
crumple up even before this RICH
handler was delivered"
When Carpenter was asked what h
thought of the pictures he rSelied i!
French that "they showed a goo
fight" When the reel finally fickere
out the manager exclaimed:
"He was too beeg, too powerful TO
my Georges!"
Deschamps declared that the picture
indicated plainly that the champio
weighed more than the 1873 pound
given as his weight just before he en-
tered the ring. He said that Demr
ney's weight was nearer 1876 than 1888.
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