The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-04
NEXT BATTLE REAL PUZZLE
 FOR THE FANS
Georges Carpenter and Tom Gibbons Both Have
 Hosts of Admirers.

NEW 1Oflh. Aus II To LOM III order to wonder what sort of a fight Georges Carpenter of France worlds champion light heavyweight, and Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul will of fer the patrons of Tex Richards fight emporium. The two have been duly matched, and will endeavor to slug each other for home runs some time in October, probably on Columbus Day.
 That makes, it just the proper caper to ask: Can Tommy Gibbons wallop Georges Carpenter? And just for variety's sake: Can Georges Carpenter wallop Tommy Gibbons?
 The answer to the stions-both of them-is yet and no.
 Carpenter is not rugged. He hasn't the vitality to carry him along in any sort of a fast fight, for it seems that every punch that lands on him has a telling effect. It is doubtful if he is clever enough to keep Gibbons from hitting him. His much vaunted cleverness didn't make any appearance at Jersey City, espe- cially after Dempsey socked him a couple. And if he was clever the night he boxed Levinsky, he didn't show it. Time after time Carpen- tier started punches toward Levin, sky and missed A clever boxer doesn't waste energy like that, espe- cially when the fellow he's boxing is a setup. A clever boxer doesn't get excited and lash out with both hands as Carpenter did when Levinsky was covered up. Gloves protecting his jaw and elbows across his stom- ach. There wasn't thought in Car pentier's mind to pull back and let fly the one punch that would flatten Levinsky. No, indeed, Georges was just excited, and that's all there was to it.
 Georges Chance
 Carpenter, despite this, has an ex cellent chance of beating Gibbons but he'll have to do it in hurry As each round goes by Carpenter s reserve force is lessened. All the stories you read about Carpenter wanting to stay away and box can be put down as bunk. Carpentier is every bit as anxious to get his fights over in a hurry as Jack Demp- sey-maybe more so. And Carpen tier is far more dangerous in one round, or at least until he has let fly that right hand of his, than he is in later rounds
 Some time before the July ? bout the writer quoted a friend of Georges, an American,a who declared that Carpenter had to defeat Demp- sey in a punch, or his only chance of winning would be gone. At the time no mention was made of the American's name, but now that Georges mighty effort is a thing of the past, it's fair enough to say that the man was Dan McKetrick. t
 The Big Chance If McKetrick had the power of all the ouiji boards in the world he couldn't have given a truer pre-view of the Carpenter fight. Georges staked his all on that one punch. He landed it in the second round, the first opportunity he had of putting it over The punch, a wicked one, bounced off Dempsey $ jaw and the champions knees sagged but Dempsey was no Beckett. He didn't go down to the floor. He strengthened up, grinned-a savage grin, it is true, but still grin and charged!
 Carpenters last hope of winning was gone and Georges knew it.
 Gibbons No Dempsey
 Tommy Gibbons is. no Dempsey either in ability to give punishment or, what is equally important, in the case of Carpenter to take it.
 He is quite likely to run afoul oi the Carpenter right hand early in the fight. If he does, he'll go down and unless he is far greater fight CT than given credit for being hell stay down.
 When all is said and done, Carpen tier has his right hand, and one is not so sure but that it is lot more than Gibbons has.