Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-26
CARPENTER S TAYS
in HIS BED AFTER.
|TROUNC|NG BY SIKH.
FALLEN IDOL REMAINS UNDER
! CARE or PHYSICIAN - SEINE
0ALEsE CHALLENGES WILLS
( TO FIGHT iN2u. s.

Paris, Sept, t26. tBy the American
Press GEORGES Carpenter, knock
ed out by Battling Sikh Sunday and
deprived Of his title as heavyweight
champion Of Europe, was in bed yes
terday, battered and discouraged, ahd
Watched over by his trainers. His
manager, Francois Descamps, Is III
ready out, however for return match
with the victorious African.
W ut is an his fault Il Is a good les
aon for Georges" Descamps said this
AFTERNOON. IF Carpenter had not
sfied to play with Sikh he would not
Haye been hit in the third round by
3he lucky punch that dn2ed him"
Carpenter is blamed severely by
al the sporting writer's for taking the
fight as joke. They remark that the
ex.champoin seemed TO think he had
Nothing to do but play to the gallery
for the benefit Of the moving picture
men pnd that he could get Sikh when
he wished.
None of the writers suggests, how
ever, that Carpenter could whip Sikh
n in a return match, for they recognize
the fact that the Senegalese battler
can apparently take unlimited punish
fHent Many of them. nevertheless,
express the opinion that Carpenter
could have finished the fight victor
in the first or second rounds yeSter-
day when Sikh impressed them as be-
fhg in a frightened condition. Now
they feel, the colored fighters conf
dence would carry him through.
Carpenter passed a good night az.
ter the hard hammering he got in the
bout, Descamps told visitors The
swelling of the face is somewhat re-
duced but the left foot is twice its
normal size from twisting when he
fdlI for the last time. Even his friends
do not claim that Sikh fouled him or
fight.
4 The ex-champion's thumb Is out of
commission, and his right hand is
broken from the hard but ineffective
blows he placed on Sikh. who came
out of the fight fresh as rose.
\ sAll agree that Sikh was not marked
by Carpenters famous punches, and
that his head is the most nearly in
vulnerable part of his anatomy.
The Carpentier-Siki bout has crowd
I'D virtually everything else off the
front pages of the Paris newspapers
pnd has abscured the Turco-Greek
conflict in public interest. Both last
night and today business generally
was slowed down by absorbed discus
sign of the big battle.
! ofhe fight film was shown to news
paper men yesterday afternoon and
Mas run off ten times. In it the left
leg of Sikh was distinctly seen to
rise behind the left knee of Carpen- !
tier. who began then to fall, but OBJ
SERVERS found it impossible to decide
it was real tripup or merely
the leg of the colored fight was pass
Ing between the white mans legs.
The film, however, make itsevident
4h5t Sikh had no need to trip Carpen-
tier. who at the moment seemed to
Pc seeking his opponent in order toI
support himself, being patiently fin
,ished man.
Manager Hellers for Sikh said he
considered cabled offer from Pro-
1moter O1Rourke In New York totally
Inadequate. He added that he had
Taceiyed an offer of a large sum for
ski to meet the winner of the Joe
;BeekettF'rank Moran fight in Eng
land on "boxing day" the day after
IA .sfs Il.kf I'm
Mht Oct. IL II
III Hellfrs declared it would be a good
1AtAg for Sikh to meet Wills immedi.