Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 24 | Much Publicity is Being Given Fight

iH PUBLICITY IS BElJjlYEN EIGHT Carpentier-Willard Contest Is in Hands of Capable Managers. The proposed international ring battle bat-tle between Georges Carpentier, the European idol, and Jess Willard, tho world's heavyweight champion, is receiving re-ceiving just what the promoters want plenty of free advertising. The public pub-lic had its curiosity aroused when it was announced that two American, women, wom-en, Miss Anne Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Eliza-beth Barbury, had interested themselves in the contest, says Billie Rocap. Their interest, however, is limited to a portion por-tion of the receipts which is to swell a relief fund; apart from that they are to have nothing to do in common with the arrangements.- One might say in all truthfulness that the details are in shrewd hands. Messrs. McCracken and Rickard represent the cash end, Messra. Jones a"nd Curley, the American pugilistic pugilis-tic asset, while Francis Deschamps, manager of Carpentier, will see that i his protege gets every protection. When live wily men like the quintet mentioned begin to match their wi . i against each other, the public is goin... to pay some price to see the battle of J the century staged. The moment this luring match was ' 1 proposed tho critics of the country got busy, and it is amusing to read t lie ' various angles from which it is discussed. dis-cussed. The latest is that Carpentier is to come to this country and .bos a series of contests before he tackles Willard, Wil-lard, and no less a personage than George Engel, former manager of Frank Klaus, is made to say so. Engel advances ad-vances the advice that he is well acquainted ac-quainted with Deschamps, manager of Carpentier, who has confided this startling start-ling bit of information to him. Kew here is the truth without any veneer. Deschamps is bitter against Engel. On June 24, 1912, Klaus and Carpentier met at Dieppe, France, a port on the English channel, where the passengers on the channel boats from New-haven land. It was to De a twenty- j round affair. Klaus in those days was a great body puncher, and Carpentier, who was still a boy, could not stand the terrific lacing he was getting about the ribs and kidneys. In the nineteenth nine-teenth round Deschamps jumped into the ring and claimed ins protege had been hit a foul blow. Engel appealed t to the referee, and claimed the verdict . and purse on a foul, Deschamps having j automatically disqualified Carpentier. Klaus was awarded the decision. Deschamps denounced Engel as a robber. rob-ber. Two years ago, when the writer talked to the Frenchman in London, he had not altered his opinion of the ; American manager, so it is not likely i he would confide in Engel. ; As for Carpentier engaging in a number num-ber of battles in this country, that is out of the question so long as tho war lasts. Should the young Frenchman receive re-ceive the permission of his government to come to America, it will be to meet Willard so that the relief fund may be i swelled. There are sure to be financial differences and a parley of words, but ' all five men interested are too bhrewd to let the opportunity slip. In one breath Engel says Carpentier is flat broke and in another he tells vou of the vast amount of money the Frenchman earned through his connection connec-tion with advertising stunts outside of his ring engagements. The advertisers1 paid him a fortune for their privileges. Has the war absorbed all of Carpentier Carpen-tier 's ring earnings, which totaled more than $50,000? He surely has had no chance to squander his money at the I front. Then Engel further tells you Carpen-I Carpen-I tier has not boxed for two years. In ! order to properly refute this statement i an exclusive photograph is presented on this page showing the .-young Frenchman French-man in a boxing bout held for tho entertainment en-tertainment of the French soldiers in the trenches. It tells its own story. Engel alludes to Carpentier as a boxing marvel. Where did he learn it? queries the astute trainer of Benny Leonard. Now, if Engel, when he was in Paris, had dropped around to Grognet's private pri-vate gymnasium, off the Avenue Grand Armee, any afternoon about 4 o'clock, he would have seen Carpentier and a bunch of young Frenchmen showing each other' the fine points of boxing. Tho writer watched them practice one blow and a defense for the same for fullv fifteen minute. That is how and where Carpentier learned to box.