DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FIGHT.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1921, Page 4

DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FIGHT.

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VAXUH VKI! July .5

New York sporting writers are unanimous that Dempsey was groggy from Carpontier’s onslaught in the second round, hut the writers agree that when tin* Frencluiiiiii failed then to land a knock-out he lost his chances of winning, because bis superhuman efforts left him practically as exhausted as Dempsey was at the end ol the second round. The third round foil ml Cat pentier unable to recuperate rapidly enough to overcame the powerful rain <>l blows which Dempsey landed. Dempsey had it all liis own way thereafter.

M. Descamps says that Carpenticr’s thiiml) was injured during training a week ago. bill he did not mention it because it looked like framing-up an excuse for defeat.

The finish was absolutely in sight at the beginning of the fourth round. A continual bombardment was weakening Carpentier, and after 55 seconds’ fighting the Frenchman sagged noticeably at the knees, and crumpled up when a vicious right to the face and a left to the chin landed.

Carpentier was not unconscious, but was sorelv distressed. As he lay curled up on li is side. Referee I*srtic began to count, while Dempsey, grinning sardonically, loaned against the ropes, watching the rise and fall of the referee’s hands.

Gamely, yet weakly. Georges rose at the count of “Nine.” Dempsey leaped at him like a Hash, and another crushing left to the body and right to the chin hurled Carpentier to the uoor. At the count of “Eight,” Carpentier tried to rise, but failed.

Carpentier finished flat on bis face, with his legs and arms outstretched. He look an unmerciful beating. He had a cut.under the eye, and his head was battered viciously until his face was swollen and bleeding. At the end the crowd cheered the conqueror, and then the vanquished Frenchman’s supporters dung round his corner until he was revived, and staggered from the ring after the battle of the century had ended.

Carpentier told his friends in the dressing-room that he regarded Dempsey as the most formidable hitter of all time.

VANCOUVER, July I In a considered statement to-day, Carponlier said:*— “II my hand had not been injured I might have won. I have never been hit by a man such as Deuipsev, whose blows are terrific beyond comprehension. Even now I am still weak from those terrible blows. “1 believe 1 could outbox Dempsey, except at in-ligliting, a here he held my arms and smashed me with one hand. “At tile beginning I was filled wiu confidence, and .was -001. while Jack was worrit'd. 1 therefore decided to re-

verse my plan of keeping away, which 1 had previously determined upon, and rush him, the same as I did with Hecke.tt ; lmt Dempsey held my hands and hit me so hard on the ribs and the hack of the head that 1 knew I was wrong ever to think of mixing it. So I agreed with Descamp's advice, alter the first round, to play a waiting game. “In the second his uppercut broke the skin over my cheekbone, and buit mo badly. It maddened me into my great effort, which nearly won. Dempsey was slow in blocking, and for the first time 1 had the thrill of seeing him hack away. Then I delivered the hardest blow, but was horrified when I felt, my hand was broken.

“1 knew it was all over. I oiitboxed him later; hut what was the user He took all I gave for the sake of hitting me. It was the blow over my heart that sent me down and out. I "as nearly unconscious, and did not hear the . ounl of ton. 1 am heart-broken that | was beaten.”

Tim correspondent ol “The 'limes at Now York says: -“.My imagination was haunted by the spectacle of the doughty Gallic boxer, springing into the ting smiling, a model for any sculptor, and his appearance in less than 29 minutes, stunned, paralysed, and disfigured as a result of terrific punishment. The contrast in the light was equally poignant. Dempsey, with a scowling, bristling face, was a magnificent spectacle ol physical strength, ‘literally towering over his slender mid gracelul opponent. It impressed the spectators as a college bov confronting a giant.”