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Show : Carpentier May Give j Beckett Return Bout j ' WHILE TRAINING FOR DEMPSEY 5&SW PARIS Georges Carpentier 13 taking good care of himself train-PSWfiS train-PSWfiS Ig) lnE for his go with Jack Dempsey. - y He is most -particular about his food. It is cooked by Mmo. 'ffiMffi &v Vnnhilbroucq, who has been I . A "motherlnc" him for some time. I SjSjW Thoy have becomo qulto devoted : . -SJriS 10 cacn ot-,lcr antl Georges likes u-S to havo his plcturo taken with vS&G ll0r- olderl' la(Jy keeps a y, . ... 4 watchful oyo on Georges when Uo There is another fly ip the. Demp-champion and the Englishman on ! scy-Carpentier ointment. Joe Beckett has challenged tho Frenchan to a return re-turn match an'd is Hkely"to get it before be-fore the gay Parisian steps. Jnto a ring witlj our own Jack. The quick knockout of their champion cham-pion has failed to convince the English Eng-lish that Carpentier js a better man than Beckett, Sentiment is spreading throughout the British Isles that Carpentier Car-pentier flattened Jce with a lucky punch and that he could never do it again. The English fans want to see another match betr.-een the two to prove beyond a doubt which is tho real' champion. The great holiday of France comes in July. French fight fans are hoping to see Carpentier meet Dempsey in. Paris on that day. If it is impossible to arrange a match between those two for that date then another bout be-tweon be-tweon Beckett and Carpentier may be staged. In France this bout would draw as nearly as much as a match between be-tween Carpentier and Dempsey and bring a greater return to the promoters. promot-ers. National Hero. It doesn't matter a great deal to the French who Carpentier fights. He is the national hero. They believe him supreme In the ring and would gladly welcome another bout between their French soil. Tho frenzied bidding for a bout between be-tween Jttnpsey and Carpentier has developed de-veloped T&isxy complications, not the least to which are the demands of Jack Kearns' Dempsey's manager. Dempsey is tied up with a movie contract for some time yet and can do 'nothing until that has expired. In the meantime Kearns will undoubtedly undoubted-ly play one offer against another until it will probably take all the croTm plate of Europe to got Dempsey across the pond. Most Bide "Hokum." The great majority of the American I bids for the bout to date are "hokum" and Kearns knows it. The cash in the j bank guarantee will send most of these bids into oblivion and in the fin-final fin-final analysis tne dickering will probably prob-ably simmer down to one American promoter and possibly two Europeans. The squabble over the bout is bound to take several weeks if not months. Carpentier may grow restless over the delav. He is convinced he can whin Beckett any day in the week. Dos-champs, Dos-champs, his manager, is of tho same opinion. The French want to see him fight and if any one of the Paris promoters pro-moters goes after a return Carpenticr-Beckett Carpenticr-Beckett match he is likely to find Georges and Deschamps eager to grab another purse and go after Dempsey later. |