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Show French Featherweight Boxer Transformed into Heavyweight The decisive victory of Georges Carpen-tlor Carpen-tlor over aiarccl Moreau has given the 'French critics something to enthuse about and they are certainly making the most of it. The battle botwoen the two French contenders for the middleweight titlo. or perhaps more correctly, tho light heavyweight heavy-weight title, was deepomtely contested until Carpcntier put his rival down and out. To the French critics it was proof positive that the champion of their country coun-try has regained his form, and they look for him to accomplish groat things in tho future. They are absolutely certain now that tho defeats mistained by Georges at the hands of Billy Papke and Frank Klaus were more or less unlucky, and that given further opportunities he will easily convert those black marks In his record Into victories. i , However, some of the English critics who watched the young Frenchman s work in all his battles doubt very much whether hp Is tho real wonder that he has been touted to be. Up to the end of 1910 Carpentier h career ca-reer was nothing remarkable consisting or a number of victories over local boys and a few beatings from fairly good English boxers like Sno.wboll Broad. Buck Shine and similar ones. At that, lime he was a featherweight. In 1911 his record Improved, his best efforts being against Sid Burns, Young Joseph and Harry Lcwjp. but even these wins were not conclusive as to his standing as a world-beater. Burns gave him a terrific ter-rific battle for fifteen rounds and was only beaten by points. Harry was bad-Iv bad-Iv treated In having the decision given ngnlnst htm after twenty rounds of hard fighting, and Young Joseph's record does not helo to put Carpentier on the pinnacle pin-nacle of fame. Takes on Weight. It must not be forgotten thai, lie was beaten lost season by Henri Plot. JSus-techo JSus-techo and Dixie Kid, and that he refused re-fused a second encounter. Increasing weight drove Carpentier Into the middleweight class last season, and ho was promptly matched with Jim Sullivan, Sulli-van, the British champion, whom he knocked out In two rounds, Subsccrucnt-ly Subsccrucnt-ly he dofeated George Gunthor and Willie Lewis on points, victories that were thought by the Frenchmen quite good enough to warrant matching him with Klaus and Papke. In each of tho latter bouts he wau defeated. Looking at It .from a fighting standpoint, It sccmB that Carpentier la a little shy In stamina for a long bout, and lt would not be a bad Idea If ho was to wait to year or two before seeking heavyweight honors, lie Is atlll very young, being in his tventleth year, and need not feel discouraged, dis-couraged, at all. With the experience he has been having and his Increasing weight, ho should develop into a high-class high-class heavyweight in another year. The largest heavyweight pugilist In captivity cap-tivity today 1b Joss Willard, tho Kansas Cyclone, who Is after a matcli with Hither McCarty. He is tho man whom Tom Jones tried to get a contract on, but who was loyal enough to stick to Charley Cutler, the Chicago fighter and wrestler, who haa been furnishing his meal tickets for some time. Willard is billed as the largest and fastest man in the ring. He Is also referred to as the logical heavyweight champion. This will, of course, worry" no one, not even the real champion, .Tack Johnson. Willard never saw the day he could stand up bo-fore bo-fore Johnson and exchange wallopB with him. There are any number of "white hopes" In tho country today, and Willard Is listed among them, but he is not a champion. Me Is big enough to whip a mule team, standing 0 feet C Inches In his stocking feet, and weighs 225 pounds. His reach is S3i Inches. Willard has only been boxlmr a couple of years. lie fought Luther Mccarty In New York some time ago and claims to have bested Billy McCarney's man. Llko McCartv, WW axel Is strong on tho cowboy stuff and can rope steers and ride movlng-picturc movlng-picturc bronchos with as much grace as he can trim a porterhouse steak. Palzer No Boxer. No use talking about luck unless you give the palm to Tom 0"Rourke. The New York manager and promoter sailed yesterday with Big Al Palzer for Paris, where Palzer will mako a couple of flgnts in preparation for a twenty-round con-icBt con-icBt at tho Hippodrome In Paris next June with Jack Johnson. Al Llppo has practically closed tho rnatch. This -will bo Johnson's Aral appearance In the ring since he gave Jim Flynn such an artistic trimming at Laa Vegas. N. M., on the i Fourth of July. But to got back to O'Rourkc. Here Is Lucky Tom with a nice trip abroad and a chance to make a lot of coin, while other managers equally as smart as the New Yorker remain at home struggling to get pork and 'beans as a steady diet. Palzer Is not a fighter. PIo never was and never will be. How any one could got excited over Palzer is a mystery. Alt the wise ones were next to the fact that ho was nothing more than a dub and not a man who could fight championship battles and win them. If Jack Johnson Is not as feeble as Uncle Tom of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" famo, when he meets Palzer. he wilt give him tho worst beating he ever received. Luto McCarty Is atlll pulling big houses. He will not conclude his theatrical engagements en-gagements till tho warm weather sols In, but in the meantime may arrange a few matchen for early spring. The latest from Now York Is that McCarty will hook up with Bombardier Wells In Now York next March. This big Englishman Tights on the order of Jim Corbett. Palzer Pal-zer won over Wells the last time they met becauso tho Britisher was not strong enough to drag the enormous hulk of the acrninn farmer around tho ring. If they over moot again Wells should beat him. and it Is a good bet that he will mako McCarty stop awfully fast to outpoint him If their proposed match In New York 1? brought to a head. |
