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Show DID "WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY" FORCE GEORGES INTO RING OR DID HE WANT TO SHOW WARES? BY DEAN SNYDER. i I The American public which always pays generally get it's own way at that. It hankered for a sight of Georges Carpentier cast in the role of a, fighter fight-er rather than a dancing shadow master mas-ter and It Is to get it. An ombelllshed reputation don't go far In thifl country when the "show-uie" "show-uie" gang begins to get persona By agreolng to box Battling Levin-sky Levin-sky the Frenchman has flopped back Into the approved groove of favor with the good folk of the U. S. A. I Shadow boxing had begun to taste 'klckless' and flat with nothing else in night r J The Show-Mc Boyc. I The "show-me" boys got together : and shouted for nciion. The word was j being passed around that "Gorgeous" ( Georges was Just another ono of those ("dollar champions." I His resolve on landing in this coun-jtry coun-jtry to fight Dempsey and Dempsey 'only didn't listen good after lhi Howdy-do welcome had worn off and folk had given the guest's wardrobe tho onc.c over. j And now the American public has 'out-hypnotized the hynotic Deschamps. I Georges, himself, isn't the sort of a 1 chap to "take a sandwich to a ban-'quot," ban-'quot," and has decided to furnish the whole dinner party with the battled-scarred battled-scarred New York Hebrew assisting while he is over here. i With Levinsky aa the trial horse the t Frenchman is meeting n man of his ; own weight 175 pounds for Georges ' is a light heavyweight and not a heavy. ; And It so happens that Bat is the j recognized light heavyweight champion cham-pion at the present. All of which adds interest . i j v Beats Slow-Foots. While Levinsky at his best was never a knocker-out of first clnsH men he used to outpoint the slow-fools reg-' reg-' larly. ' Dempsey sprawled him in three I rounds three years ago. It nearly finished fin-ished the battler, but he has been tap-, tap-, ping gloves with boys of the younger generation lately. j If 'he should bent Carpentier it will 'wwl all jbr --viu.-drr.lv and gMt shirt sliown. out a LeniH-Ly Is d.sposcd of the Frenchman's stock will go up like FAMILIAR FACES ' imm Carpentier i I the steel market did when the world was exchanging ghell greetings.. A match with Dempsey would be demanded by the name public that forced the Levinsky affair down Des-cbamp's Des-cbamp's throat. Curley Scoros Again. Carpentier ends his road tour June 2C. The bout Is to take place" some time before July 26 location to be determined de-termined upon by Jack Curley, promoter, pro-moter, who seems to have a happy faculty fac-ulty of bringing champions together when everyone else falls. The bout Is to be 12 or 15 rounds, decision or no-decision, according to the laws of the state which grabs it. Georges sets a flat guarantee of 550,-000 550,-000 the same figure1 they used to Pay a man to stay at our White House and look after things. The trial horse will take his whack out of the gate. The fight will draw a pot of gold wherever It Is held. Passage of tho 15-round boxing law in New York slate comes at an opportune oppor-tune time for Monsieur Jacques Curley. Cur-ley. He happens to know Just how many people can be packed into Madison Madi-son Square Garden and such places. Then there's Mew Jersey handy with plenty of accommodations the inclination incli-nation and everything. |