BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1921, Page 3

BOXING.

CARPENTIER-DEMPSEY MATCH, DEMPSEY SUFFERS EYE TROUBLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 14, 11.45 p.m. New York, June 14. Kearns tas announced that Dempsey has temporarily discontinued training. His camp Is closed to the public, but it is believed his eye trouble Is more serious than is admitted. AMERICAN THE FAVORITE. Although the “big fight,” as the Car-pentier-Dempsey match has come to be called, is not till July (writes Harry B. Smith in the San Francisco Chronicle), there are already B’gns that It will attract more interest than did the Dempsey-Willard bout of two years ago, and that very shortly now the sporting writers will be opening their campaign. A month of training will likely do for the heavyweights; at least it ought to be a sufficiency. Hut since Dempsey is already in New York and the Frenchman scheduled to make nls appearance, the “experts” W?<11 have plenty to write about. Swallowed up as the match will be by the bigness of New York city, even though one of the Jersey towns will art as host to the fight throng on 2nd July, it may lack the pluSifresquetefits o*i\ smaJlor centres where fighters, the newspaper contingent and hong-et3-on are more closely thrown in contart with one another. 1 Some twelve years aco, at Reno, there was the gathering of the clans that will long bo remambered. The same spirit was far less marked in Toledo, and may be lacking in a city so close to Gotham. But if so, it will be more than offset by the news possibilities. Here are two young men and a fight that has the international flavor; truly for the championship of the world. Dempsey has always been accessible to the newspaper man; to the crowds. Evidently Carpentier is much the same sort. He likes life and the limelight. It should not be difficult to map out stories Uiat will be of interest to the reading public. Jess Willard at Toledo was hard to get at, and when you did find access to his quarters he had nothing to say, replying to questions in monosyllables. Once a day, as a general thing, l:e stalked through the lobby of the Secor Hotel, spoke a word here and there, only to disappear until it was time for his afternoon workout. The crowd could see Jess in the training ring, but no more of him, as he retired to his private residence, that had been leased, and was entirely secluded. Carpentier can be depended upon to be more In the open. He loves his gamee, where Willard drove himself to his tasks only because of the money involved. As to tho fight Itself, naturally Dempsey will be favorite. Americans will flock to bls standard because he is one of us, and then, too, ho is the champion. There can be no arguments in this fight ns to whether a man “can camo back.” Both contestants are in their prime. It is true that Ilempsey has <>>ne comparatively .little fighting during the past two years, but as much can be said for Carpentier. Eastern men —good Judges, too, like Billy 1 Gibson—hold that Dempsey will be the victor. They even go so far as to predict that it will an easy win. All the same, there must be sometlilng to Carpentier, else he would never have climbed as far as he has. He can he depended upon to give Dempsey an argument

There is no reason to look for last-hour controversies as to whether the fight is to be permitted. The State of New Jersey has a law that legalises boxing within tho twelveround limit. Twelve rounds have proved moro than ample for a decision in most of the championship matches, and it will likely be the ease this coming July.