New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

In the first round it seemed that Car
pentier would be dropped at any mo-
ment. Dempsey tore at him savagely
IN series of clinches, ripping blows
Go the body. Carpenters nose was
rasped by glancing punch, and hled.
his left eye. The fine profile became
9 red smear. Close watchers did not
believe that it would GO for another full
round. A sudden shot from the Demp
sey right or left would end it any Sec
ond. Then came the lightning flash
by Carpenter. He few at Dempsey and
landed right and left on the cham
pion's jaw. Dempsey tottered and there
was just bit of sag about his knees.
Carpenter made another rush, but
Dempsey recovered in an instant and
aeft jolts to the body. The slender
form Of the Frenchman bent before them
He could not withstand the sheer power
and the strength Of Dempsey. Few
human beings will be able to with
stand those punches of Dempsey to
the body for some time to come That
ended the rush of the poilu. The third
round was absolutely futile Carpen-
tier now and then jabbed with long
right, but it rolled off Dempsey's head.
Moral of Bout-The Punch Wins
There was no disorder such as there
was when Dempsey dropped Willard at
Toledo. 1t seemed that the radiant
calm of Carpenter held that crowd.
When that bell rang the Frenchman
might have been merely stepping into
his little ring at Manhasset instead of
into that whirlpool of suppressed emo
ton. When he recovered consciousness
his manner was as unruffied as it was
l. g. 81 nf rf,r
tory training exhibitions at his Long
Island camp.
The exhibition demonstrates that as
q financial proposition a prizetight
beats Wall Street for quick work. AS
TO what else it demonstrates. that is
problematical. 1t demonstrates, at any
rate, that perfect poise, consummate
gallantry and radiant confidence can
be reduced to an inert mass by the
punch Perhaps that is the moral of 1t
all--the punch wins.
CarNentier's future will be the mem
Dry OF gallant effort in the humid
mists. Dempsey's immediate future is
anything that he wants to make 1t, so
far as the prizering is concerned. No
heavyweight can stand up against him
for some time to come. He "looked
very much to-day like the Dempsey of
Toledo two years ago.
Gallo Confidence Brings Sleep
They say that Carpenter slept like
child on the night before the bout. One
newspaper nan, who greeted him early
in the morning, said that he was Joking
and laughing and full of confidence.
Dempsey plainly was worried and irri-
table through it all. Psychology was
against the champion, but he had the
weight and the punch. Inside those
ropes only these two count.
Carpenter will fight no more in the
United States. He will carry back to
France as much Of 100000 as the in
come tax collector leaves him. Dempsey
will have 100000 to settle his various
lawsuits. Tex Richard says that the
gate was in the neighborhood of 81 $780,
600. He will have few dollars left
after the various expenses are paid.
Close to ninety thousand humid
humans stewing in the huge wooden
saucer six hundred feet in diameter
saw the battle. Long before o'clock it
seemed certain that the arena would be
filled with the biggest crowd that ever
saw boxing bout and that the gate re-
ceipts would run over S1,50o,000.
The miasma that steamed up through
the tangle Of timbers that covered an
expansive section of Boyle's Thirty
Acres seemed to Cypress the crowd be-
fore the main bout. They sweated and
painted, watching the preliminary bouts
alphabetically and without enthusiasm.
sEAfter the carefully staged entrance
Of Governor Edwards of New Jersey
he proceeded to take personal charge
OF the policing arrangements.
Richards Handy Man Elected
Before he was aware of it John
Ike) Dorgan, Richards handy man,
was personally thrown away from the
ring by the Chief Executive of New
Jersey. The Commissioner of Public
Safety made the eviction official by
burling Icy Kaplan, gentleman we'll
known in the camera trade, after Mr..
Dorgan. In the meantime the sun
beat down with a heat that went sew
eral degrees beyond Me-. Dorgan's in
Around the patch of white canvas
where the ring drama Of the cen
fury" was to be staged there were
more correspondents than were sent
to the World War. Beyond were lay
crs and layers Of kings of finance,
kings and queens of moviedom, sport
ing gents and ladies from all over the
peasantry, male and female, Of all the
Industries and trades. Statistically
speaking, the gathering was about 10
The Yale Bowl, filled, holds seventy
FIVE thousand, The huge frame shackle
structure held fifteen thousand more
and they were jamped and huddled in
the Enclosure like rabbits at the end
of the drive. A yegg on holiday
sweated peacefully beside million
aire. "One Eye" Connolly brushed by
the Aston party to locate himself on
a stool by the ripgside. 1t was harder
10 keen Done Eye" Connolly, wit out
ticket, out Of the place than it was to
stay the progress of the Aston party.
Planes Circle Over Ring
At ten minutes to 8 master of cere-
monies Joe Humphreys announced
through a sound-carrying device that
the main event would be staged at
o'clock as scheduled. The photog-
raphers' wagon began to clutter up the
ring, two airplanes began to circle
through the mists around the huge
wooden saucer and sober dark cloud
doomed in the east: 1t looked like
an approaching thunder shower.
1t was reticent and brooding crowd
that gasped through the preparations.
Taken all in ell it was up to this time
at least one of the most orderly crowds
that was ever assembled There were
no last-ninute rumors, there was no
last-ninute betting. Somebody trotted
large floral horseshoe into the ring.
II was a gift for Jack Dempsey. The
superstitious began to murmur.