East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-06-16
NERVES MEAN THAT
FIGHTERS ARE READY
TOGO, CORBETT SAYS
No Credit to slugging Men
That They Get on Edge for
Combat, Like Race Horse.

(By James j. Corbett. Former Heavy
weight Champion. Written FIX
pressly for the International News
Service. Copyright, 1921, by Inter
national News Seryice.D
NEW YORK, June l6.-U. y. ST.
/ have been reading and hearing quite
IA bit of comment about occasional dis
plays OF nerves" by Georges Carpen-
tie rand Jack Dempsey.
Like many others who are record
I ing the progress of the rival boxers in
training. | have visited both camps,
yet 50 far / have failed to notice any
thing unusual in this way.
From my own experience and from
what | have observed in years u fol-
lowing boxing / have never yet seen
top-notch boxer who did not show
a touch of temperament at times and
fail TO see why any particular inn
portance should be attached to such
a thing
If Dempsey were to plod along in
his daily routine, showing no more
indiy duality than truck horse, or il
Carpenter drifted along from day to
day with never a flash of impatience
taking everything as it came TO him
with the patience of a mlch COW. then
there would be reason for comment
Something would ge wrong.
Dempsey and Carpenter are both
fun of nerves. Certainly they are. If
they were not they would not be
where they are today They are like
thoroughbred race horses, dancing at
the barrier and eager to tear into the
stretch The nervous energy that is
in them, with their wonderfully mus
cled bodies 10 obey its command.
makes them great fighters
Babe Ruth. for instance, has nerves.
, Babes nervous temperament asserts
itself at the moment he crashes into
a baseball for a home run. He is
keyed up, eye, mind and muscle work
ing in perfect coordination as the
pitch whizzes up to the plate and in
the instant that determines whether
he will swing on the pin or not his
nervous voltage is uppermost.
Nervous energy will be uppermosi
in both Dempsey and Carpenter
July 2. After they have received H.
nal instructions from the referee and
go to their corners. back to back. 10
await the harsh clang of the gong
they will both be a tingle of nerves
I've been there myself and know.
Sly visits to Carpenters camr
have been as pleasant. as uncventful
in a way, as a visit to a quiet mil
pond.
| Georges is quiet. quick-witted. fas
to pick up the thread of converse
tion and withal the very embodiment
Of pent up energy, under control, But
on the surface he is as placid as Mir
ror Lake. That means he is in con-
| ditinn--great condition.
/ ! have studied Dempsey more close
/ ly than have the Frenchman. for |
have had more opportunit and It
will not surprise me TO see Jack give
more outward evidence of nerves on
July . than his opponent. say this
simply because | believe Dempsey ca
pable Of being keyed up to a higher
pitch than Carpenter. 1t means
nothing aside from this, nothing in
the way of unfavorable comment n,
applies TO the champion. Dempsey'S
rushing style of fighting is the bes
indication in the world that he is q
vertable mine of nervous energy, the
sort Of nervous energy that predomi
mates his cyclonic style of fighting. |
| 10 that sn1na Sprt M apprpt. tbot riNo