The Alaska daily empire., 1921-06-10
CARPENTER IS
 FAST MAN SAYS
 SPARROW M'CANN
French Fighter Is loo Light and Dempsey Will Win
 Fight Easily.
By SPARROW M'GANN

1 lining out of the ,Frenchman' body If Carpenter lasts three rounds he will be lucky.
 These are the opinions you get 1 from eight out of ten fight fans who l have visited Atlantic City and looked over Dempsey and then gone to Man hasset and given Georges the once over. The thing that inpresses 1 these wise ones is tha. Dempscy's chest. shoulders and back are broad CT and that the challenger vii have to concede some 20 pounis to the champion.
 | The trouble with dope of this sort 1 is that superior weight and build do not necessarily mean that one fight CT can beat another. Speed, hitting l power, endurance-these are the de. ciding factors in a battle between two heavyweights. A difference of 15 or 20 pounds of itself is nothing upon which to base odds; it does not even make a betting proposition. It most certainly doesFnot in a 12-round fight.
 Georges True Heavyweight
 Taking Cafpentier and studying his build closely, as the writer did. the one great conviction is that the. Frenchman is a true heavyweight. His arms and shoulders are built for hitting and his chest, while not so deep or broad as Dempseys, is 1 ] perfectly good chest. His legs are strongly constructed and so springy that Carpenter, when sparring or shadow boxing, leaps about the ring | like an antelope.
 Dempsey, beyond question, has never fought so fast a man as the | Frenchman nor has he tackled a l fighter who knew as much scientific boxing. So this fight, mark my word
 is going to be decided not on weight but on speed and hitting.
 Carpenter Would Set Pace
 Dempsey without doubt will aim to do his fighting in close. Car pentier's scheme will be to fight the battle not as Jack would like toI have it fought, but as he himself wishes to conduct it. If the French man is somewhat faster than the champion, then probably he will be able to dictate the terms of the en counter. What they will be is, of course, mystery, but it is a good bet that Georges is not going to do any more infighting than he can help. In all probability his scheme will be the weave in and out, dane ing, sidestepping, ducking, hitting and getting away-in short, making as much of a fool of Dempsey in 12 rounds as he can If he doesn't make fool of him that will be his mistake.
 Jim Corbett managed to do just that against Jim Jeffries 21 years lgo when Jeff was champion of the world. When the two stepped into the ring it seemed a crime to sit by and let Gentleman Jim take the lick. l ing apparently in store for him. Cor bett for six months before the fight had been taking the best of care of himself and training as he had nev CT trained before. He had to. for he was getting old and his life after his championship days had not been any 1 too conservative.
 l Nature Takes Hand But he did come into the ring in good shape and for 22 rounds he made the champion look silly. InI the 23rd Corbett suddenly pulled up. a whiteness coming over his face Billy Delaney, Tommy Ryan and oth CTS in Jeffs corner yelled to the big man to go in and finish Corbett; that he had cracked. So Jeffries waded in to punish him and then knocked him out, the only clean blows he had landed during the fight Corbett always said he got careless and that was the reason he was knocked out. but it looked to the writer as though Nature had taken hand and that she had called time on Corbett's exertions. For when heI swung at him.
 grew pale and pulled back, Jeffries
 Of course, Dempsey is not slow as the truck horse Jeffries was. Ir | fact, a lot of us believe that Jack is as fast as any man in the ring today, not excluding Carpenter If we are wrong. then Carpenter might be able to reproduce the Corbett Jeffries fight. the knockout omitted If we are right. this coming fight will resolve itself into a question as to which can hit hardest and which stands the more punishment