| Show tt H I t D OW NIN G S es JJ FIGHT DOPE or ori 4 J i Hardy D owner g to reports from Wall street George M. M Bartlett said to bo boa o oa ACCORDING a prominent banker banger er and financier of England has tipped off the tho big 4 brokers in New York not to bet on Jack Demp Dempsey ey and nd Wall Wall street in turn has tipped the world to that effect affect but In in spite of this supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed tip I think Dempsey can and will win just about as he e pl pleases ase To start with if Wall street brokers took any stock in In this tip they would use usa the information to their own advantage instead ad of tipping off the unsuspecting the same as they do when they have a tip on a certain stock that is going to slump or soar According to reports there are millions of dollars on tho Chicago and I New York exchanges to bet on Dempsey at odds from 3 3 to 3 2 to 1 and andI I believe this report has been sent out in hopes of getting down some of that at money without giving any greater odds Similar reports have been curre current t before practically every bia biz championship championship cham cham- p battle and as a rulo rule are nothing more than idle gossip as the result result o pf of f the bouts have proven and for one I will have to see more convincing convincing proof than anything that has been produced so far to shake my confidence in tho the honesty of the tho big scrap The most mot prevalent sentiment among amono the skeptical ones is is that the bout will go the tho limit with the view of making a big cleanup in a return match across the pond some time in the near future Personally I think Dempsey is so far the tho superior of Carpentier that it would be impossible for him to carry him through the twelve rounds without it being apparent to anyone who had ever witnessed a real contest and to in that event they would be brand branded d as the kingpin fakers of the world and would result In m bringing about such strict legislation against boxing that both Dempsey and Carpentier would die of old age before they ever got another chance to reap a harvest and not only that it would sour pour the sport world to such an extent that it would be impossible for them to make a lead quarter in their profession tho the rest of their lives There is too much money at stake for them to take any chances on killing the goose Doose that lays the golden t egg gg Some of my readers who have a leaning towards Carpentier in in in this match will probably bo be interested in knowing how I draw my conclusions regarding the result and I will try to enlighten them Carpentier in his prime prima never did whip one of our best middleweights Billy stopped him in seventeen rounds Frank Klaus won on a foul in nineteen rounds Joe Jeanette has also beaten him Gunboat Smith dropped him in tho the sixth round and lost on a foul when he was unable to stop a punch ho had started which grazed Carpentiers Carpentier's head while still on his knees In his fourteen years of boxing the only men of or real worldwide reputation tion whom he has handed the K 0 O. O wallop are Bombardier Wells Joe Beckett and Battling Levinsky Everybody was doing it to Wells about the time Carpentier beat him Owen Moran duplicated his performance of stopping Joe Beckett in whirlwind fashion and Battling Levinsky has been all through for a number of years and was only the light heavyweight champion in name when Carpentier beat him some time ago He has several pretty good men in his day but they were middleweights or light heavies Dempsey has beaten them all stopped all stopped them with a punch or two two and and his list includes practically every big man white whiteman man in the world so after fourteen years ih the ring five of which he served in the big war and did no boxing can he expect to give away at least twenty pounds to to a fighting machine like Dempsey who has the punch and can take tako them and also a handicap in age and figure to have a ghost of a chance Its It's a cinch that Dempsey can run faster forwards forwards' than Carpentier can backwards and I believe that if he wants to he can walk right into Carpentier Carpentier Carpentier Car Car- and break through his guard with his terrific punches and then its it's 7 II over but the count Ij i MENTIONED the fact in tl se columns a a. a couple of w weeks ago that Jack Britton welter eight champion was touring the Northwest accompanied by his own referee and picking up some some easy money without taking any chances on losing his title From Prom the reports of his bout with Dave Shade in Portland last week it was evidently a good thing he insisted upon his own referee being the third man as reports have it that Shade not only gave him a pretty busy evening evening but dropped him liim to the canvas at least once i ifor for which he lie was awarded a draw which would indicate that Jack has either s slowed up lip considerably or is drawing his bouts very close with some of the home town champions in order to get return matches r. r o A INDY FRED WINSOR former manager of Jack Dempsey and others WINDY who took Phat Willie Meehan East a short time ago with the avowed intention of camping on the champ champions champion's ons on's trail until he got gota a crack at the title had his dreams knocked into a cocked hat last week when Tommy Gibbons fattened his batting average to eleven straight 1 K IC Os O.'s by handing the phat boy from San Francisco a K O. O 0 wallop in in the very first round This his must be a new sensation for Meehan as he has fought all the best big fellows and as far as memory serves me this is the first time he has ever taken the sleep count This feat will be quite a feather in Gibbons' Gibbons cap as as s it will be remembered remembered that the last time Meehan met Dempsey he wa was awarded a round four-round decision over him in San Francisco and it makes Tommy loom up as the most likely candidate for Dempsey's crown providing he retains it on July 2 I MANY ANY of the local fans who are g greatly interested in ill the outcome outcome outcome out- out come p. p pf the big a scrap but who cannot spare the time or the expense s t to make to-make Blake the trip E East Bast st are contenting tl themselves by br planning lanning t to attend the twelve-round twelve bout in Pocatello on n July 4 between Abie and s ug Meyers bie 4 h iris has s been putting in some IH hard rd work the past couple of weeks in preparation for fOl the match and to get bet down to the required weight of pounds ringside which he has agreed to m make ke for Meyers and will probably be in the best shape of his boxing career when he steps through the ropes and its it's dollars to doughnuts that the patrons of this bout get more real run for a a. a nominal fee ee than I they ey will at the big scrap for a half century note and Promoter Hardy K Downing expect to leave for Pocatello by the auto route tomorrow morning the former to put on the finishing touches to his training and the latter to spend a week fishing in the vicinity of Mackay l Ida e II OU th the i local bantamweight kingpin whom rUmor had it wasL was L Lou slated to appear in one of the preliminaries to the big big scrap in Jersey JOrsey has returned to his home here a much sadder and wiser boy after a wild goose chase to Cleveland 0 O. and return According to story AI Al Auerbach who at one time held a contract contract con con- tract with Champion Jack Dempsey w wanted to sign Lou to an year eight-year contract to act as his manager but the terms did not suit the local youngster and he declined to affix his signature Auerbach then than informed that he was going East to the big scrap and that he would stop ov over in in Cleveland and arrange for a match for him there and after that bout would go on to the big bout and book him for one of the preliminaries there On the strength of this scraped together what little money he had and bought a ticket to Cleveland with the expectation of having Auerbach Auerbach Auer Auer- bach meet him and have all arrangements made for his match there I Imagine his dismay when Auerbach not only failed to meet him but upon I inquiry at the address where Auerbach informed him he would be could not find him or anyone who even knew him him- After milling around for a day and a half and getting nowhere he took inventory of his bankroll and found he had just enough money left to purchase a ticket to Ogden which he did I Just where Lou and Auerbach got Jot their dates mixed up is not known to toI Lou at least but It looks as though he got rather a raw deal for a youngster who has practically never been out of the state I 41 I to a letter to Abie Able from George Sollis who with ACCORDING A his manager Steve Senhouse started out to conquer the Northwest and then journey to Australia their tour is not progressing as suc sue successfully successfully as they anticipated According to the letter Sollis was practically matched with Danny Edwards but but buthe the bout ut fell but through he has some chance of landing a match with him him o on July 1 at Milwaukee a suburb of Portland If this match does not materialize he expressed his intention of returning to Zion Sollis will probably bly be just as well off if the match does not materialize I for for Edw Edwards who is is a colored boy is probably the best boy of his weight I know now on the the coast ast and ha has been going lik like a house afire and is a mighty tough proposition for Sol Soli Sollis is to tackle in In his first out He would have d done ne better to take on some lesser lights in preliminary bouts if in I order order to g get t started than than to bump up against almost certain defeat necessary in his first bout bou in m strange territory |
