Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-04
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At PROPOSED BOUT
WITH CARPENTER
Writers Deride Frenchman's
Chances in Second Battle
With Dempsey.
Bv SPARROW M'GANN,

Copyright. 1922. By The Great Falls Tribune.
New York, June 3.-While Jack
| Dempsey was in Europe he made plans
to return next September and begin
the bally hoo business we the pro-
jected battle against Carpenter.
Among the details which came to hand
to day is the engagement of Bonn
barber Wells as a sparring partner for
a series of music hall exhibitions.
Dempsey could not have picked a
better sparring partner, so far as
popularity with the British public is
concerned. Everybody who is anybody
can knock Wells out. but he is a fine
handsome chap, clever with his hands
and has a personality which attracts.
After the music hall tour, Dempsey will
enter upon a three months course of
training for Carpenter. His head
quarters will be at the house Of James
White in EPSON.
He'll Take Pa and Ma
His ho~usekeeper while training is
likely to be Dempsey's real mother this
time. For he plans upon his next trip
across the ocean to take both Pa and
Ma Dempsey with him.
1t will be interesting to see how
much enthusiasm the well known
methods of Kearns. Des Camps and
company will be able to arouse over
the return battle. One thing is Ger
tain. they will have to overcome the in
fluence of a press which just now is
decidedly adverse. The London ex-
perts can't see the fight in any shape
or form and they have been panning
it with all the strength of the hard
hitting typewriter fingers.
Punch the well known Observer
critic says that if a return match be-
tween Dempsey and Carpenter is a
good one then SO is a return match
between the Frenchman and Ted
Lewis.
IF the London is gulled,' he says,
Into accepting this proposed battle
as a championship fight in which Car
pentier holds a chance of victory then
they will get what they deserve-a
repetition of the jersey City affair.
although Of course the spectacle would
be of much longer duration seeing that
such a strong friendship has .sprang
up between the two principals and
their managers.
Duty to Oppose Match
''The public gathers its impressions
on such matters from the press and
II - surely the dutN OF boxing critics
to speak out honestly and strenuOusly
TO oppose this match which is not a
sporting event at all"
"Grislet' the referee SAYS that
there is no indication that this match
will leave the British public anything
but cold. Moreover he doubts if any
British promoter would have the nerve
to attempt TO offer the proposed purse
Of 600 pounds.
Film pictures of the Carpenter
Lewis battle in London are said to
show very clearly that when Lewis was
knocked out he was turning to the
referee with his hands down. in ans
wer TO some remark by the arbiter.
II was then that the Frenchmen swip-
ed him. Up to that time Georges
body had been plastered at will by
and be also had cut Carpenters
face and caused his lip to bleed. Car
pentier'S action is regarded on the
other side as "a shade inside the
legitimate limit" but il is certain when
the British public see the films and
realize inst what happened that they
will boo and roar just as Justify as the
crowd at the ringside the night of the
fight.