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Show CARP FAVORITE BY HEAVY ODDS I Lewis Hopes to Win By Using Both Hands in Close Quarters LONDON. May 11. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Georges Carpentler will enter the rinK tonight a heavy favorite to win over Tod (Kid) Lewis in their 20-round match for the world's light heavyweight championship. champion-ship. Jack Dcmpsoy Is here to witness the battle, and is confident that Carpentler Car-pentler will have a walkaway. While the weights of the men have not been given out. It is believed that i.i'iviH win Flop inioiigii iiuj iuijc3 1 . . ' 1 h t a 12-pound handicap, hut hlsj backers are looking for him to make up the difference by his gameness and ability to use both hands effectively. effec-tively. Lewia is expected to keep tho milling at close, quarters, to counteract coun-teract the Frenchman's inclination for long range fighting. Carpontler was a threo to one favorite fa-vorite In the betting today. Th-. usual statement was Issued from both training camps, that the men were in perfect condition and confident of the result. The main bout, following flvi; preliminary atchen. Is scheduled to bejfln at 9 30 o'clock. Major A. J. Wilson, who Is promoting pro-moting the match, estimated the paid j admissions at 16,000 and declared the ! demand for tickets was so great tbnt' I the last of the 3000 seats in the spc-j dally erected overflow stands were ! rapidly being snatched up. The In- I terior of the Olympla. where the fight will take place, is a maze of color, with elaborate decorations In the balconies and galleries, rising tier above tier about the great quadrangle quadran-gle In the center, in which the white J roped arena with lis red. while andi blue posts and glaring canvas await- ed the gladiators. The Daily Mall has arranged to 1 employ a broadcasting station for the dissemination -of a running story of the ,'fight from the ringside 10 ami-! n ur wireless telephone users, which Is an innovation here When the two fighters weighed in I at the ringside, Lewis, fully clothed j registered 157 pounds, while Carpen-j Carpen-j tier, clad only in his undergarments, tipped the beam al 17" pounds. |