The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-16

| noon in Jersey City and there was moi one accident. It was not necessary to make an arrest. This every re markable state of affairs was due mostly to the splendid policing and handling of crowds given by Mayor Hague andshis officials of. Jersey City, who planned and executed wonder fully.
 Possibility Of Rain The thing that caused me the great est anxiety and apprehension was the possibility off rain. You can readily visualize what might have happened had dowppour of rain set in after that great throng had been seated. Of course, if it had rained . few hours in advance we could have postponed the fight. The thing T. wanted to avoid, and the thing that sometimes feared was a panic due to sudden weather changes. Ea4
 | don't know if I was born under a lucky star but the fact remains that have had the greatest good fortune in the world in all of my big ventures when it comes to weather. Several times we have narrowly escaped rains but never yet have had rain actually intefere with a championship event held outdoors. &A
 The details of all these arrange ments were told over and over again in the daily papers until feel that the average boxing fan as well as the stay-at-homes are thoroughly famil- far with them. Suffice it to say that when the sun broke clear that morn ing of. July ? many millstones were lifted from my shoulders. Nobody ever got greater thrill than did out of that day of good weather.
 Al these arrangements, went on-be- fore they really got under way, tn fact-Carpentier and his entourage, including Descamps. his manager, ar- rived from Europe and went into training at Manhasset.
 Romance Found In Career The Dempsey outfit awent into train- ing at Atlantic City.
 These camps had to be watched as well as the work going on at Boyle's Thirty Acres. No hands were ever fuller than mine. The press work took care of itself. Hundreds of news paper men were in New York eager to elaborate the slightest incident into readable story. Y
 As expected the arrival of Car pentier added all the fuel we needed to the fire of publicity. His manager, Descamps. was almost as good for newspaper copy as, the French cham pion himself. Descamps was a show man by profession, eyen before he got into the fight game. s5t-
 Much Pubiicity
 Writers were quiclsdo start legends of the -fussyt little ma1ager and to re- late stories of the war records of Carpenter. Anything that smacked of romance was eagerly sought by read. CTS. This ten-strike in publicity was greater than all the gold strikes in Alaska put together.
 For instance, it was related how Descamps, wandering snowman, dealing in hypnotism and legerder- main, had given performance around Lens. the mining section from whence Carpenter came. He took rabbits out of hats, hypnotized subjects in the audience and so on. Finally he wound up with a boxing exhibition, being very clever boxer himself. He had long been a, trainer of athletes, The boy Carpenter saw Descamps' show and wanted to box: He got his chance. Descamps saw a future for him. The slender boy fought his way right to the top, through all the diff ferent classes as he grew heavier. So never took another rabbit out of a successful was he that Descamps hat.
 Now, wasn't that sort of publicity made to order?
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