Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-08
RINGS BIG
BATTLES ARE BOTH
DELAYED TILL 1928
Dempsey-Wills and Greb-Car
pentier Bouts Possibility
for Next Summer.

New York, July There is little
or no chance that Dempsey will fight
Wills this year, or that Carpenter
will come here to fight Greb, but both
fights are a possibility for next sum-
mer.
Promoter Tex Richard says that
even if Dempsey should change his
mind about meeting Wills, it is now
takes months of preliminary work to
pull off a championship bout. If it
We're merely a question of advertising
the bout there would be plenty Of time.
Interest in the match already is at
fever heat and it could be staged next
week and draw TO capacity. But there
are certain details that cannot be com
pleted in haste if the promoter is to
derive any profit from the affair.
If Dempsey means to fight Wills he
should hasten matters as much as pos
sible. Just now, conditions are right
for a tremendous crowd and another
record purse. a few months from now
it may be altogether different. Some
thing may happen to Dempsey or
Wills. Other negro heavyweights are
fast coming to the front and Wills is
not a young man. He lost considerable
prestige when Bill Tate held him to a
draw, and if be should be defeated by
one of the younger colored fighters, his
power as a drawing card would dis
appear.
Purse viii Be Smaller
OF course. no one believes that
Dempsey will be able to pick up an
other 100000 purse, and his talk of
5000 900 is purely buncombe.
1t probably would not worry Demp-
sey greatly if Wills were put out of
action and never entered the ring
again. Before the Wills match began
TO shoulder, Dempsey loudly bemoaned
the fact that there was no one of any
standing to fight him. Listening 10
his sad story, Il would think that
Jack was the most unfortunate of
champions. But now that an oppon-
ent. purse and place are ready for him
it seems that Dare Devil Jack" is
we'll satisfied to keep on meeting set
ups.
The careless way in which Carpen-
tier turned down an offer of SlJ0,OO0
W u lri U anu = - ~
for the ELECTROMAGNETIC champion
ship indicates that Georges, like Demp-
sey. is more of a business man than
a ring hero. Carpenter evidently fig
ures that he will make as much as that
out Of his picture posing and bouts
with the set-ups-Beckett n Neville
without running any risk.
Interesting Match
The Frenchman's refusal to keep
his promise to Tex Richard to come
here and defend his title deprives ring
followers of seeing what would have
been the most interesting match of
Carpentier's career. 1t would have
been highly interesting to see how Car
pentier would go about the task of solv-
ing the Pittsburgher's peculiar meth
DDS.
If Greb really believes that he can
win the title he might take a trip to
F1lrope in quest of the honors. If he
issued n formal challenge, backed by a
suitable forfeit. Carpenter would have
to recognize him, for such things are
regarded more seriously on the other
side of the water than they are here,
There are two reasons why Greb
will not go abroad in search Of a match
with Georges. One is that the match
would not draw nearly as much as it
would in this country, and there still
is a chance for it to be held here next
season. The other reason. and one
that counts for still more, is that no
referee in France or England would
stand for Greb's style of milling.
Dempsey Not Afraid
There is no doubt that eventually
Dempsey will be forced into the ring
with Wills. Few who know the men
have an idea that Dempsey recently
has any great fear of meeting Wills.
In fact, it is n certain thing that if
Dempsey has fear of any boxer it is
of Jess Willard. He knows he ought
TO beat Willard. but he also knows that
Willard. whether in condition or not,
whether old or, young, carries a sleep
producing punch more terrible than
that of any man in the ring. He knows
that Wizards heart rankles for re
venge, and he never will forget the
wallop the battered. bruised and beaten
Willard clouted him on the head at
Toledo. He knows that one such
punch landing anywhere near the right
spot would make an ex-champion OF