The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-07-02
9l. 900 PERSONS WITNESS
n GREATEST RING B0.':s1s:;,,i: l.. 49,
OF TWENTIETH CENTURY

Jersey Clty July g." Never 1elt
better in my life" remarked Jack
Dempsey as he sat down to a light
breakfast this morning in the private
home where he spent the night
The champion slept without inter
lruptien from 10 o'clock last night un-
ltil 7 O'Clock this morning. He started
Tor walk but such a arge crowd
followed him he was forced to return
to the house.
Carpenter Feels Fine.
Manhasset, July O. Carpenter left
Port Washington, Long Island, for
Jersey CITY on the yacht Lone Siar,
at 10:45 this morn ng.
i've had good sleep and feel
fine, was his smi ing comment to an
AS ociated Press representative as he
came out of his house at 7:45. He
arose al $50 and took a little light
exercise along the road.
A Metropolitan Gathering.
Riagside, Jersey city. July 2.-The
gates to the big fight opened this
morning at 9:45 and in popped vast
crowd. Through the entrances of each
side OF the big wooden octagon poured
men and women who were to be wit
nesses of the Dempsey Carpenter bat
tie. Soon the saucer OF fellow pine
fleched with human ty.
a sultry day had followed the humid
night. The sun tried to pierce the
screening ouds that gave a constant
threat of rain, but then gave up the
attempt. 1t is an ideal day for the
spectators. None longed for the
scorching sun and none wanted rain
All kinds Of peop'e are here society
women, shop girls, merchant princes
twenty dollar-a-week clerks, the man
VINO lives by his brains the fellow
without a profession and sportsmAn
from five continents.
New York July New York's on.
TIRE Metropolitan area. which em.
braces Boyles Tn rty acres in Iersnv
City, seethed with a frenzy of evcite.
ment wholly unprecedented in the an.
nais OF sport as I. e hour rolled slow-
~ On tor the battle of the centurv
ilstic clash for the worlds heavy
weight championship between Demn.
sey-Carpentier. - =
New Yorks mansions and eorgeous
lotels early began d sgorging hriI-
liant parties OF men and wome, n
tent on threading in ample time the
ciuttered automobile Highways thar
lead to the mammoth arena in Jersev
City. The less opulent fight fans be-.
gan TO scramb @ toward Jersey hours
earlier by ferry, flivver and train
EVEN the earliest arrivals found them
se'Nes outgeneralled by the advance
guard OF three hundred men and hovs
arena INC
The weather forecast is fair
dempsey and Carpenter have is.
sued their last minute statements
asserting they are ready for the hat,
| e OF their lives, each breathing con.
hdence Of the outcome
The odds favorng tie chamniop
shortened markedly during the
last hours of the betting. dempsey
ST II re'gned two or two.and.a.haif
to one favorite. Carpenter IL tha
sentimental fayorite.
Ringside, July 2-Th,o carnival of
oiows, for which the tens of thous.
ands are massed here today about the
eighteen foot ring, opened at 12:1o
O'clock with prelim nary bouts that
served as cocktails for. the feast dash
natt between Dempsey and Carpen.
Ter FOR the ,feavy weight boxing title
The announcement was then made
that the man bout would go ON Mt
. O'Clock, rain or sa.ne JGinny Cur.
TN, 1t was conceded outpointed
Mickey belmont in the first prel;mi.
mar. = 0''''''
1t was announced at 1880 that the
house was sold out. meaning that 81.
600 seats will be occupied.