The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-10
British Heavyweight Has Some Weeds in Own
 Garden
SKI MUST BE RECK0NED
Toe Believed Be Only One Who Thinks He
 Ought Meet Champ

| LONDN, April 10.-Joe Beckett is the only man in England who thinks that Joe Beckett should fight Jack Dempsey.
 The more or less hectic scramble | that has been made in certain some what obscure quarters to lead the amiable Joe into the ring with the ferocious Jack has left England's sporting populace as cold as the out side of an Eskimo's igloo. Not every British sportsman will go so far as to brand the proposed match pugilistic pretext to evade the laws against manslaughter, mayhem and similar highly destructive and personal crimes, but they are practically unani- nous in regarding it as an utterly in- adequate entertainment from a pugi listic standpoint.
 The best thing that has been point ed out about the match in England thus far is that it is proposed to hold it in the United States, where the long suffering and docile English popula- tion will not be compelled to gaze upon it.
 Joe Still Hopeful Old Joe himself, however, seems to crave pugilistic intimacy with the mon- arch of the heavy weights. The mem- ory Of what happened to Willard, Full ton, the dashing Georges and swarm of lesser lights seems to have faded from Joe's consciousness. Whether he really thinks he has a chance with Dempsey or whether he belongs to that opportunistic school of knuckle- dusters who are convinced that the unexpected may happen in the ring and is willing to take chance for the sake of whatever financial advantage may accrue, is a secret that Joe is keeping locked in his own braWny bosom.
 At any rate, Joe is still convinced that he is deserving of a match with Dempsey and is shaping his destinies toward that end. The barb of adverse circumstance has become tangled in the skein from which Joe is weaving his dreams, but he is still undaunted.
 The stepping-stones by which Beck cit contemplates mounting to match with Dempsey are Dick Smith, the venerable British heavyweight, and Georges Carpenter. Twice Beckett has been on the verge of fighting Smith, but both times his physical condition has brought about a postponement. Present indications are that Beckett will not be ready to meet Smith until some time in May.
 Georges Carpenter has a contract with Major Arnold Wilson for match in May. The expectation was that Beckett would be his opponent. Car pentier, however, has not started training as yet, and Beckett is not in fit physical condition for ring work
 Matches May Be Off
 Heavyweights, as rule, do not fight as often as once month, and to expect that Beckett would take on Smith and Carpenter both within space of thirty days is asking too much of any of the present-day crop of battlers. The natural assumption would be that one and perhaps both of these proposed goes never will come off
 With the European heavyweight sit uation all snarled up, it is unlikely that Dempsey would consent to meet Beckett until he had cleaned up the European crop.
 And, besides Smith and Carpenter there is the shadow of Battling Sikl lowering above the pugilistic horizon once more. The black battler from Senegal has eased himself back into the good graces of the French boxing authorities and is once more a figure to be reckoned with.
 It would appear that Joe, however laudable his desire for Dempsey