The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
First Round

First Round
 They shook hands. Carpenter was short to the head with the left but drove right and left to the body in a clinch. Carpenter walked away and Gibbons landed with light left to head. Carpenter reached Gibbons with right to chin. Both were boxing cautiously. Gibbons crossed with a left hook to the chin and Carpentier backed away. And when he came in Gibbons drove both fists to the body. Tom jabbed light left to the body. Carpentier missed light left to chin. Gibbons hooked q right to body. Carpenter landed hard right to head Gibbons hooked left to chin. Gibbons chased Carpenter around ring, ducking a savage right with which the Frenchman attempted to land.
 Round Two
 Gibbons feinted for an opening and hooked left to body. He followed with left to chin. Tom landed light left to head, forcing Carpenter to retreat. Carpenter missed left hook to chin and Gibbons pounded him in the body in his calls and paying his respects to all who passed by, turned to his stool and remained there almost entirely oblivious to the surroundings.
 The leisurely and painstaking care of the two men in rolling their hands extenuated the business-like air of the proceedings. One ringsider remarked Tommy re-wound his hands with as much concentration as if learning his "A. B. C.'s."
 Gibbons wore his loosely fitting Irish green trunks, which were in blaring contrast to the immaculate and snug tri-color trimmed white trunks of Car pentier.
 Rain Is Defeated
 Hopes were audibly voiced both for the main event to come on and that J. Pluvius would hold off his contribu- tions. Sun and clouds fought another battle for supremacy all through the afternoon and rain lost by a few drops during the early rounds.
 The flags of the two nations fluttered directly over the center of the ring and at times furnished the only shadows on the canvas. In the middle of the second preliminary the tri-color was caught by breeze and wrapped about the wire much as it would be folded about a staff. Many suggested it as bad omen fulfilled in the victory of the American boxer.
 PreliminarieS
 The first preliminary of four rounds resulted in a draw between Johnny Croak of South Chicago and Mickey Cohen of Kohom. They weighed 11O pounds. Croak was the more experi- enced and harder puncher but Cohen came through in the last two rounds with long range left and carried the fight to his opponent.
 Jack Mccarthy and Sammy Kahn, both of Chicago, 145 pounders, fur nished the next four-rOund event. They slammed away at each other almost wide open, mostly at close quarters, and though both were tired cut at the finish, the honors were fairly even. Hundreds were still streaming into the arena while the early preliminaries were running.
 The preliminary bout between Farmer Joe Cooper and Jack Kane of Chicago went the four-round limit with the vic tory going to Cooper, who had his op- ponent weary and bleeding from the mouth at the finish. They weighed 130 pounds.
 Charlie Vann and Jack Mcdonald, q numbering pair of Chicago huvyweights, looked like a couple of the unidentified dead after their four rounds of slug ging. Both bled profusely from the nose, covering their naked chests with crimson. The bout in the judgment of critics was fairly even.
 Patsy Rocco of East Chicago, Ind, had the better of Alex Trambitas of Portland, Ore, in a six-rOund contest at 147 pounds.