The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-21
FRANK MORAN GRAVES
TO GET CARPENTER
into RING WITH HIM
By FRANK 6. MENKE

One ambition which FRANK moran
knows-beyond all else is to get
Georges Carpenter into the same ring
with him.
The blonde from Pittsburg is old
and grizzled now-years removed
from his battling prime. He sizes up
as nothing but a punching bag against
a good, youthful heavyweight. But II
they ever gave him a crack at the
Frenchman, there's something WITHIN
Moran which perhaps would remove
temporarily the marks OF time ana
transform him into the great 1lghtlng
machine of eight and 10 years ago.
It's the urge of revenge; the prompt
ing of a certain form of hatred.
For Moran, never indicative, never
vengeful in other things IN nte-ai-
ways happy-go-lucky, smiling hale-fel-
low-well-met-kno a feeling rad
ically different whenever his thoughts
swell upon Carpenter.
Nine years ago Moran, then at the
peak of fighting form, took on JACK
Johnson in Paris in 20-round tus-
sic. The negro, then heavyw eight
champion of the world, knew little OF
Moran and reckoned him as just about
the softest thing that the world could
produce.
He advised every friend to bet on
him to the limit; he begged and plead
| ed with big French sportsmen 10
make a plunge on him. And most OF
! them did.
| Pushed on johnson.
For several rounds Johnson toyed
with Moran But finally his lack OF
condition began to show him up. AT
the first sign of it, Moran sailed IN
and began to rain a fury of blows up
on the negro, who, before the twelfth
round had arrived. was nearly dead on
his feet, due as much to his own lack
of condition as to Moran's smashing
| and crashing.
/ Johnson's plight became desperate
one. He resorted to holding, to~rough
work in the clinches and to tricky
fouling. The referee let him get away
with it. Moran protested-but to nc
avail.
Then Moran decided to do the same
thing, figuring if it was fair for the
negro, it likewise was fair for him
But at once the referee stopped hin
and continued to stop him--althougf
all the dirty trickery of Johnson's was
permitted.
At the end of the twentieth round
the referee gave the decision to John
son, thus saving for him the cham
pionship which it seemed to many III
was certain to lose before he was al
lowed to fracture most Of the RIM
rules to save himself.
The triumph to Johnson in tina
,, fight not only saved him but it save'
carload of money which Frenchmal
ION the inside" had wagered on hin
to win.
Georges Carpenter was the refere
of that Highland Moran never ha
! forgotten it.
!, He resolved Immediately afterwar
to try to get Carpenter into the rim
with him and square things then. Blu
! the advent of the war killed off tina
) chance.
Georges Steers Clear.
When hostilities ceased Moran mad
j, another effort-but failed. Throug
: 1920 he was unceasing in his endea'
l ors to lure Carpenter into a mattel
: Carpenter, on the other hand, wa
: unceasing in his endeavors not to
lured
A short while ago Moran cabled
promoter in England to try to &c
him fight with Georges. When tn
match was preached to Francois De
, champs he waved his flippers into tn
! ozone and shrieked:
mo, no-Georges weel not fight re
Moran"
>. well, zee Moran, he eez no figh
: aire; he moost get a-what you ca
reputation"
e The fact that Moran went the di
# tances with both Johnson and Willal
Q and knocked out Joe Beckett almo
IT as hurriedIy as Carpenter did,
t. some excuse for Moran's surprise:
I'll What does that bird mean by
r reputation"
y And then he added:
IF I'm a bit old as fighters go no.
T. but l don't think I'll ever be too o
to be unable to whip that Frenchma
p to within about two punches of a no
" pital cot.
"a Copyright 1921 BY King Features