Show fT f l IN i D OWN GaS fi FIGHT IGHT DOPE D OP OPE I By Hardy HardyK K Downing jj Ai j J JIT 1 TT BEG BEGIN h to look as t though boxing fans had seen t the le I last Jo I IT Georges GeorgeR Carpentier the French idol as far as ns participating inny i any big bouts bouts' in this country is concerned concerned JJ Although Tex Rickard was reported tp to h have ve signed him lm p t meet Tommy Gibbons for the light heavyweight l championship the world as soon as his injured hand would permit reports tb are coming from across the pond lately would indicate that Geor George Georg has had a change hange of heart and he will probably bly co content him hims with taking on the tho best there is on the tile other side which should easy pickings for him him for some time to come at least jj The French rench idol was far from disgraced when he went do dow before Jack Dempsey as there were very few fans ei either her on th side or in Gay Paree who really thought he could give glye away away i much weight to such a fighting machine and win wipe win He is is g Y credit for making a game try against almost certain defeat an and anal probably more of an idol than ever at home J Were he to meet defeat at the hands o of Tommy Gibbons a ni ma nIa of his own weight it would be bo a bitter bitte pill b both th for him an i thousands of wor worshipers II He has probably figured out tha f would rather ret retain ln the prest prestige ge than to lose it for fol the sake o. o snug little fortune 1 j This seems logical in view of the fact that he will still contim to bo be a great drawing card on the other side of the pond and vi wi eventually make as much money as he lie could in in a bout with Gibb Gibbin Gibbon n nin in which he would probably be decisively beaten and consequent would not be much of a card afterwards He lIe would be practical compelled to retire from the ring in order to retain the tho esteem estee f which he is held An Eastern sport critic who interviewed Carpentier a sh sho time after the Dempsey match gave gave gae it as a's his opinion on that he lie vi wi via j ja a broken man having failed in the one great ambition of his lif lii his fighting heart was gone and predicted that if he ever m ia rn Tommy Gibbons or any of our best light heavies he lIe doomed to certain defeat The fact that his match with G Gibbo 01 has as been called off or Ol postponed indefinitely would indicate t tafter th after having having- due time to think the matter over oyer he has come same eon conclusion lusion and will probably content himself with some b bon bou on the other side 1 a s J ILLY Shade of Vallejo Cal who several years ago was waa just an ordinal B BILLY round four-round battler on the coast has just returned to his native lai la after a sojourn of a couple of years in the tho land of tho the kangaroo D ti that time he accomplished a seemingly wonderful feat of annexing tl welter middle light heavy and heavyweight championships of and he ho is now out after the scalps of the best light heavies in this country While Shade was rated as a good boy on the coast he ho had nover never doi dol anything really startling He was wal Just a youngster then not yet out of f teens and decided to try his hi luck away from home N Shade was 19 when he went to Australia about two years ago and w wa w wa a welterweight Upon arriving there he ho secured a D match with Herbe Hilton welterweight champion of N New South Wales and astonished II tl natives by stopping him in forty five He mado made himself In that oi ci bout and soon after met Fred Kay Australian welterweight champion i ai ii acquired the title by knocking him hm out in fifteen rounds Ho He took on w w. w wi a rapidly and after boating beating Fran Francis ls Charles the French champion in rounds stepped into tho middleweight division and bowled over Clabby former American middleweight and Tommy Uren champion of Australia He tarried only a short time in the gh ghan an and moved into tho the light heavies whom he ho beat as he ho pleased by the K jI t route and then right on through the heavyweights J I Shade now tips the beam around and although the caliber of in in Australia at tho the present time is evidently quite poor he has made a re eco r-eco ol to be proud of and has undoubtedly developed into a good man 13 C C Vs I 3 1 RED FULTON the elongated plasterer who was Jack Tack Dempsey's Dempse 8 F FRED H ping Pine stone to the heavyweight championship has been matched to toT m m s JL Bill Brennan Bronnan the man who gave ga Dempsey his toughest battle h W near future and will have a chance to set himself back In tho the If it ho can cnn over o the tough and hard hitting New Yorker 4 Fulton has hns a wonderful left lett hand for tor a a. big fellow tellow and can cm hit but 1 has never showed t that at ho had the fighting heart to stand up under udde gruelling battle Unless he can drop Bronnan Brennan for tor the full count In th the ear ear rounds he will probably be and flattened for tor tho the count before before Il If end of ot the bout i 1 Brennan lacks the class to bo be a champion but ho ha is Js is a n glutton f t fc punishment is Js game gamo aa ns a pebble and can hit lIe He is a mighty tough lion tion for tor any of ot tho the big fellows to tackle All A L Ii T 1 WALKER ALKER of San Francisco who will win meet George Sollis local feather in in the six-round six feature event of the open boxing show of the tile season at the Hippodrome theatre on Lab Labo day daris js undoubtedly the best little fellow who has ever been here He is a seasoned battler who has fought the best of th ther D Dup up Uj and down the coast including Bud Ridley whom he lie has ii me five e times and beaten twice George Lee and Harry Atwood wi wh vh are both well known here as well as such well known boys as J Coffey Danny DannO Edwards Charlie Moy Babe Herman and Franki Frankil Vierra J 1 I Walker is u under der th the management of Jack Downey the tile for forme forfi popular local middleweight who has a of r on til thi coast He does not hesitate to inform his ma many v friends here hero thaI thu his will prove to be one of the tile most p popular pular little fellows fellow who who ever came caine here J C a aG J EORGE SOLLIS th the tho local featherweight ht met with hard luck on tit his GE G GEORGE recent recen t trip to Portland in search of or bouts He arrived there thero time to See the tho game gmo closed down for tor the tho time being on account poor attendance JaCe during tho the summer months and as there thero wasa likelihood w or of f i Its i beIng S Cl closed sed for some Bomo time he hc readily accepted the with Walker Valker r for tor the tho opening of or the Manhattan club match Souls returned the tho early 17 part ot of f last week and Js is the Vestern Athletic club W workIng out Ut Billy Wallace the e Sacramento nto who has been working iJ the tho put past week for his b bout with Kid worM Davis of fr friends nH S M. M 5 Vt on Labor day dav is making Baking a WOn daily and is Y already one of f the tho most popular youngsters who h J dropped 5 in in u here in in some time hi 3 |