Evening star., 1924-07-25

me Goddess of Victory never once
smiled upon the plucky brow of Car
nentier during those fourteen furious
ROUNDS of milling. Yet, even in the
lace of certain defeat CARPENTER
kept driving on, intent upon making
his last endeavor one to be remem-
bered by those who saw him display
Ihe same indomitabl courage against
Jack Dempsey in the hectic encoun-
ter in Boyle's Thirty Acres in 1921.
Tame Until the Tenth.
Ihe fight was a comparatively tame
aHalr up to the tenth round Tunney,
'he harder hitter, had opened up a
cut over Carpenters right eve But
the Frenchman had handed him a
receipt in the shape of a similar deco
ration over the left optic.
Inc tenth opened furiously. Tun-
ney rushed from his corner. meas
nred the dodging Frenchman with d
beautlful right and crashed him to
Ihe resined floor of the ring. He
TOOK SIX counts and was UP. He
rushed Tunney. but another right
crossed in front of his face. unable
10 do more than lf-heartedly pro-
tect himself from Tunney's eager
thrusts.
The American, sensing a knockout,
<'ove in with renewed vigor. He
?. Ved rights and lefts a the Groggy
IT & &,chman; Keeling and rocking
Il
sea but stubbornly keeping his feet
IN the fusillade of blows that rained
upon his weakening frame, Carpen-
tier CROPPED around with arms out
stretched, endeavoring to catch Tun-
ney's body and hang on until the
storm had abated.
Comeback Is Amazing.
At this point Referee Andy Griffin
Jumped in, waved Tunney away, and,
to those at the ringside, apparently
attempted to stop the fight. But Car
pentiers spirit was in a fighting mood
If his body was not.
He pushed Griffin away and, with
a tlger-llke leap, jumped across the
rev PAGES which separated him from
Iunney and flashed his right to the
seemed impossible from such a quiv-
ering frame. The bell sounded just
as he crashed to the floor again for
the fourth time. During the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth rounds Car
pentier's comeback was amazing He
traded punches with Tunney, fought
at long range with him and appeared
to be well on the road to recovery
from that hectic tenth round.
The fourteenth opened inauspi-
ciously. With ten seconds of the
round to go, Carpenter rushed Tun-
ney to the ropes near the neutral
corner. The American, in endeavor-
ing to break the Frenchman'S prog
ress, brought his left into play to
carpenters body. The blow, in the
opinion of many ringside spectators
who sat directly in front of the fight
ers at this point, was believed to be
low, but the referee was on the other
side of the fighters and in no position
to judge its legality. The French
man dropped to the floor of the ring,
his face screwed up in apparent pain.
Glorious in Defeat.
He was dragged to his corner by
his handlers but was unable to sit
up straight in the chair The bell
sounded for the 18th round and he
dragged himself out of his chair to
the center of the ring, endeavoring
to fight from a semi posi-
and he sank to the floor, completely
out, glorious in defeat in the eyes of
the multitude of 10000 fans who
cheered him for Is minutes after
the ending.
If Carpenter keeps his pre-ight
promise his days in the ring are
over 1t was to beat Tunney or re-
tire for him, and his defeat leaves no
path for him.
Paul Berlenbach, sensational New
York knockout artist, was given a
Rather, New York middleweight, in
the eight-round semi-final.
Harry Mason, English lightweight,
Won verdict on points over Paul
Fritsch of France in a time eight
rounder. Mason kept under wraps
until the seventh round, when he
opened up, snatched the aggressive
from his French opponent and
weighed the scales of victory in his
direction. Mason weighed the light
weight limit of 135, while Fritsch
scaled 13l