Life — June 30, 1921 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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An International Episode ACK DEMPSEY isn’t so sure of hav- ing an easy time when he meets Georges Carpentier. “ The big fellows like Willard and Mor- ris and Fulton are duck soup,” explains Dempsey: “I hit them and they don’t hit me, because I am fast enough to beat them to the punch, I could go along beating them once a week as long as anybody'd toss ’em into the ring. But don’t let any- body give you the dope that Georges hasn't a chance, The only fellows I ever had trouble with were the speed boys. You've got to hit ‘em before you can put ‘em down, and if you're up against a fel- low who makes you miss you get tired. “There’s nothing that takes the sap out of a fighter like missing punches. It’s worse than being hit. pe mA gS —— GEORGES’ FAR-FAMED RIGHT IN ACTION rom what I hear, Georges can travel and he has a kick och. faster than bad news, like a keg of T faster than | am he’s going to have the xas h lf Georges is same advantage I had against the bigger men I beat. There's only ten pounds be- tween Georges and and that isn’t much in a heavyweight match. I'm going to train light and for spee I expect to win. But I know this is one time I’m going to have a busy afternoon, It won't be any one-two punch and wait for the referee to count ten this trip.” me, ALKED the fight over with Georges. “ But, y champion, * said the French this time you shall see that I can fight. It will not be like that with Levinsky. Then I stood straight up and used no skill because Levinsky would not fight. It is very hard to knock out a man who will not fight. Idrop my hands. 1 ask him to fight. He will not. If he will fight I would knock OF By ROBERT EDGREN A LIFE SKETCH OF DEMPSEY’S FIGHTING FACE him out in one round. Dempsey will fight. You shall see something happen then.” Bot# Georges and Jack have the right Unless Dempsey catches Car- pentier with one of his terrific, crushing hits on body or jaw in a round or two he’s going to have a fight on his hands. Carpentier is only a 170-pound dope. man, but he is wonderfully well built. He’s strong, very quicl and a remarkably hard hitter at long range. Dempsey, who does his heavy hitting at close range, may have trouble getting past Carpentier’s long, straight Dempsey’s best plan will be to press Carpentier hard and steadily until he weaves in close enough to drive in his crashing short punches, blows. If Jack can hit Georges the way he hit Willard in the first round at Toledo they'll have to send out searching parties to find where Georges came down. The uppercut that scrambled Willard’s interior arrange- ments would lift Georges over the top ropes and send him sailing across centre field, But in Willard our friend Jack had IT MAY BE THE SURVIVAL THE FLEETEST a target about as animated as a ten-ton truck in a bog. Beside Willard, this lad Carpentier is a drifting smoke wreath, a shifting shadow, an evanescent aspect of thought. Dempsey may have to use a sawed-off scatter gun to even nick him. MOREOVER, Dempscy has been hit- ting the other fellow first. Also second, third and fourth, when necessary, Carpentier, with his long-range speed, is likely to take the job of hitting first off Dempsey’s hands. In that case—well, JACK FINISHED CARL MORRIS IN ONE PUNCH there's no telling what may happen. 'y haven't been testing Jack’s chin much in his other fights. Jack has a good round chin, a strong neck, and every indication of being able to laugh at punishment. In training he likes to have his sparring partners wallop, and I’ve never seen him shaken. It may be different in a real scrap—with Carpentier. I said they both had the right dope. Carpentier says: “ You shall see something happen then.” The only question is which will be on the receivin d when it happens. After all, our little old American champion isn't so slow, and he knows a thing or two about the game him- self. The day he beat Wil- lard at Toledo Dempsey was the greatest heavyweight ever seen in an American ring. Or any other ring. If Georges wins I know of a couple of states out West he can annex to France. comicbooks.com