Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-08
CARP STARTS WORK
IN PREPARATION To
BOX BATTLING S|K|
French Champ Will Enter Ring
to Meet Negro With 20
Days Training.
BY SPARROW M'GANN
Ipeoiai Correspondent Of Crest Falls Trfbuns
1909 he Ths Great Falls Tr{h,ina

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New York, Sept. 6.-Evidently
Georges Carpenter has not taken his
coming bout with Battling Ski, the
~Senegalese negro. seriously. Neither
have a lot of close followers of the
European fighting game. 1t was
only last week that he began to train
for the bout.
So far as advices from Paris go.
the intention to hold the bout on
Sept. 10 still endures, so hat the
Frenchman will have less than 20
days of actual training when he steps
into the ring.
OF course his film career. which
has been engaging all his thoughts
in England during the past two
months. may have been of a strenuous
enough sort TO fit a man for combat.
On the other hand it may not. Re-
ports of his activities picture him in
the small clothes of past centuries.
riding horseback, engaging in sword
contests and in other ways conduct
ing himself as might be expected
of a staggering cavalier of the an
Gent regime in France.
Fight In New Arena
Int arena III WHICH tHe llSDl VIII
be held is a new structure which will
be permanent. Deschamps and Car
n~entier are stockholders in the stad-
ium, whereby it may be gathered
that the two Frenchmen learned
more than they admitted as a result
of their ~sojourns in this country.
Sikh for some months has been the
sensation of the Paris boulevard. He
beat a lot of third ~raters, and such
was his desire for combat that more
than once he provided free entertain
ment for the patrons of cabarets and
street pedestrians.
However. everyone expects that
shortly after he starts campaigning
against CARPENTER he will know moth
ing until his seconds bring him to and
explain in painstaking manner just
what happened.
After Ski, the Dempsey CarPen-
tier bout will begin to loom. But
before that the champion of the world
will be called upon to fight IN this
country. The chances are that Bill
Brennan will be his opponent and
that the fight will be held in the big
arena of Boyles Thirty Acres. The
present hitch in making the match. 1t
is whispered, is due to a difference
OF Opinion DblW cen Z hH H'u -.
ard as to the drawing powers OF a
bout of this sort.
Kearns feels that few Will fan TO
come out to see his champion in &C
ton no matter who the opponent may
be. Richard is not so certain. lie
is a clever show "a is Richard,
but even if he were mediocre. he
would probably have no difficulty III
recognizing the fact that a Dempsey
Brennan bout is not likely to be pop
ular with the public.
1t is not difficult to understand
that what kearns expects and Rick
ards dope result in two different
sets of figures in estimating the prob
able returns from the fight. This be
ing so. Dempsey's manager thinks OF
terms that do not appeal to Rickard
at all.
AS for the Dempsey-Wills fight, nc
one knows what is cooking there, ex'
cept this: Sufficient time for work.
ing up public interest to white heai
will be allowed. Dempsey may be ex'
pected at intervals to register what
may be accepted by the public as fear
of the big negro. Then, in due anc
proper time, the two will enter the
ring and the stands will bulge with
spectators.