San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-19
Carpenter, Despite Beck
, EFT Bout, Through
Among Big Guns.
MIGHT FIGHT GIBBONS
But Fans VIII Never Con.
slider Him Seriously .
Against Dempsey.
BY ROBERT EDGREN.

Georges Carpenter must have train
ed for his fight with Beckett. even if
the English champion is one of the
poorest specimens that ever he:I a
heavyweight title. even in England,
where no really first-class heavyweight
has been developed since the days of
Jem Mace-who was little more than
a middleweight at that. Charley
Mitchell. although a great fighter
never was a heavyweight.
J. Stuart Blackton, who had Car
pentier under moving picture con-
tract when Carpenter lost the light
heavyweight championship TO Sifi.
tells me an interesting story about
that affair.
Carpenter had just finished a pic
ture. 1t was a good one, and looked
like a money maker, for CARPENTER
was extremely popular and was re-
garded as a great light-heavyweiyht
although he had been knocked out by
Dempsey when he tried to win the
big title.
Mr.. Blackton heard talk of a
match between Carpenter and Sikh. q
little known black boxer in France.
He spoke TO Descamps about it, sug'
costing that as Carpenter had been
working in the pictures for some time,
and not training at all, it would be
foolish TO take any risk that might
kill his picture.
LA. La" laughed Descamps. "This
Sikh is nothing. Why, he has just
boxed a twenty round draw with
.Jouerneo, Georges sparring partner,
whom Georges can knock out so cas-
lily IN a round. The match-a joke,
Georges needs no training. We take
the boat one day, we fight, we take
the boat back the next day, ready for
another picture. 1t is good adver'
ing. Georges should knock out
somebody because he has not fought
for long time. Sikh one round-good'
bye"
No Credit Beating Beckett.
Carpenter has one of the Dempsey
fighting qualities fast knockout
punch that is a real shock producer
and not a mighty shove.
Dempsey is master of the shock
punch. He doesn't knock his men
down with a crushing wallop, so that
they are ,thrown over by the force
of the blow. He hits; their legs bend
and they drop.
But, although Carpenter is shock
puncher, he can't give Dempsey a
fight. and he is too small TO be match
ed against the three or four best
American heavyweights. Knocking
over glass-jaw English heavies like
Wells and Beckett has been easy for
Carpenter.
Dempsey could knock off twenty
like these, all in the same night, and
not taking a full round for each one
Even old Frank Moran, who never
had anything but nerve and his
"Mary Ann" could beat that bunch
Carpenter would draw well in this
country with McTigue, Sikh or Tom
Gibbons. He would be likely to beat
McTigue or Sikh, and Tom Gibbons
might beat him.
Waits For FirpO Bout.
Jack Kearns now says it isn't like.
ly Dempsey will fight again until
next summer, when there may be q
return match with Luis Firpo.
Kearns, who is a good judge OF
what the public wants and will pay
for, says that he finds no enthusiasm
over a possible return match between
Gibbons and Dempsey, that Carpenter
can hardly be considered as a con-
tender beyond the light-heavyweight
class, that there are no other Euro
pean or English heavyweights worth
naming, and that Wills. by making
several miserable fights in New York