POPULJ DECISION MAY DEC][DE Be1rs on I HE BIG FIGHT "WAIT Ifi HOURS'' \ Iimi TU HUU11U) William A
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T {; 12 ++» iH:e new vork herali3, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1921. POPULJ DECISION MAY DEC][DE BE1rs on i HE BIG FIGHT "WAIT ifi HOURS'' \ IImi TU HUU11U) William A. Brady Says FIGHT CROWD WILL !RACEFAR OVER SEA | Additional Sports on Preceding Page) CARPENTIER GLAD That GET SERVICE PHOTOS y j\ DECLARES DEHIPSEV Jack Dempsey Faces QUICK WITH FIGHT OFFICIALS WIl:l not stop TRAINING IS OVER the Fight of His Life Hudson and Manhattan Tubes Daring Aviators to Fly Out to FIGHT FOR \vorld's title Champion Non-Committal as to Put On Snecial Trains Steamships With Pictures Winds Up Long Siege With to Hoav Long Fight Will Man Who Made Corbett Calls Continued from First Page. cost an aggregate of $1,900,000. Then Hard Work Despite Champion Carpentier Early To-morrotv. Going Abroad. Jt Is estimated that about 25.000 the will be In at an Last. Fast, Brainy, Tricky and Hard and . Sproul of Pennsylvania beseeching parked Jersey Cityautomobiles Rain. Hitting latter to decline Gov. Edwards's average fee of $5. That adds $125,000 He Would Back Him at Present Odds.Declares!MANY ROUTES TO NEWS RIVALRY TS KEEN to the fight. Then he swung ainvitationheavy to the total. There's no telling how many ARENAj right to Billy Sunday's wind. of Harry Stevens's sandwiches and HIS FINAL DAY AT CAMP "Bill Sunday's a good fellow, but he cigars the crowd will consume, but It SCALES AT 172 POUNDS By WILLIAM A. BRADY. fires off his mouth when he said that he will be a poor day for Harry is he Fans to Have on doesn't take at When Jack faces Are Advised Foreign Publishers and *'ss in favor of letting the fight go least $5,000 from 75,000 Dempsey Georges Carpentier In the ring at Jersey City because of the capital invested." he said. persons. Will Motor to Jersey City and to-morrow afternoon he meets the fastest, brainiest, trickiest hard Challenger SDends Three hitting Fares Ready to Prevent Take Risks and SpareAgenciesNo "This is none of Sunday's business and Thus it is reckoned that the persons * boxer he has ever met in his career. he ought to keep out of it." watching Messrs. and Go Into Seclusion in Secret I was at Carpentier Hours Opening Mail From . Toledo July 4 two years ago and I profited by Dempsey's victory, Congestion. in Tha< the off of the bout meant each other on the ahinDemp.will I Expense Competition. calling sey punch Quarters. predicted he would best Willard in four rounds. I carried quite a largo sum bankruptcy for Rickard was of no have paid at least $2,030,000 for the All Corners of Fniverge. mere and nad no chance to wager it on Dempsey at that time. Mr. Crafts continued. Inasmuchconcern,as privilege. And this does not presume to I have seen Dempsey in action many times. I saw Carpentier tiox Gunboat For worried fight fans hailing from Out of the Dernpsey-Carpentlcr fight the non-boxing element protested against take into account financial losses through the battle before the arena was built. Smith in London in 1914. In that bout I saw the Frenchman the east of the Hudson River It may be tsprings one of the keenest and most accidents, carelessness, the activities of Atlantic Citt. June 30..Jac* young put Mr. Edwards said that he had not had pickpockets and other outlaws and such Makkassbt, N. Y., June 30..Georges burly Smith down for the count of nine with a blow on the and Gunboat of a relief to know that un- < to there first in a:l slept to-night for the last timeHempwvIn Jaw, something iarins struggles get time to analyze the letter, but that it unforseen circumstances as may be Carpentier finished his long training had at that time faced for rounds. The usual for their trans- his training camp here. After a day Dempsey successfully twenty preparations quick i:he history of news gathering, it was made no difference. brought about by bad management and siege this afternoon, breathed a sigh was scored when both men were as fresh as when they started, forknockdownlittle arena so on. of loafing and the portation to and from the fight {innounced yesterday. This speed Edwards. After the fight is history and of relief and said he was glad it was frolicking about had been done In the early rounds. I am frank to however, that I think Fight Will Go On, Says haa had a chance to take state, to-morrow from either the Thirty-third | will Include sporting chances con:estnot everybody over. house that has been his home tor eight if the bout could have been continued to the limit Smith have "The will on." he "and stock of themselves and theirs, a much lie added that he felt better would or Cortlandt street station of the Hud- |:aken iby the- boxer3 themselves. fight go said, weeks the title holder went to bed at owes'that victory to the quick thinking Descamps, who claimedwonCarpentiera it will be conducted absolutely within more accurate compilation of the cost than he ever hod before a fight. son tubes nave been made by the Hud- Within a few minutes of the conclu be 9;30 P. M. with his mind as peaceful foul when Smith deliberately struck Carpentier when he was on his knees. the law." statistics will possible. Despite a heavy rain that fell ae He had slipped there and had not been knocked down. was son and Manhattan Railway Company. s of the big contest several huge lonUp in Rickard's office yesterday For some reason or otlher (and one that of a five-year-old boy. Carpentier in good of finished throughout the day Georges worked shape when the fou! occurred and could have continued with an even chance There are many ways of getting to1 jVeromarlne cruisers will fiy far out to' experts, having dozensreason is as good as another) the To-morrow the champion and his that it was utterly impossible odds on dwindled hard, and when he finished Trainer to win. Tex Rlckard's big stadium from Man- 2sea in an effort to overtake liners which demonstrating Dempsey erstwhile party will leave for Jersey City to rest l'or Georges Carpentier to win and Up until yesterday the favoriteyesterday.Gus Wilson announced that the hattan. The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens jeft this hours before the and for the but a until called to Tex Richard's arena GEORGES PUZZLED GUNBOAT SMITH. port fight nothing left public havingodds were 3 to 1. There was a. week was on tend Richmond. It Is and reiteration of the same set of facts, set when the of edge. challenger to expected ffet on board them pictures of exciting supporters Carpentier At 9 o'clock this defend the highest honors of the Georges puzzled the Gunboat that night in London by his dazzling speed or about computing the amount of money asked and received 4 to 1. And morning Carpentier. and his hoped that many living in Harlem ,noments in the ring. accompanied by Charles Ledoux, Paul prize ring against Georges Carpentier. by original methods of sparring. He seemed to have no set style, but of the that would be spent by the throng that s friends wero chary of layingCarpentier" his The Bronx will tako advantage, One of tho Aeromarine cruisers, which sees Journee and Pierre Mallet, hurried oft of The hour of the changed mode of defence and attack almost every moment. Ho seemed a Dempsey and his French challenger their cash on his chances. But to champion Europe. 130th street route and then pro- 1 nt hhi.n for GU TyA tTnl_ the woods. They Jogged for a while composite of all the styles of boxing I had ever seen. He is as on his ferr.v T fight. and last night.in Wall street and champion's departure to-morrow was quick It is to offer yesterdayand when caught In a heavy shower feet as Jim Corbett ever was and hits a ton harder. He has not Corbett's ceed by the Palisades and Union Hill t on, owner of the London utterly Impossible figures the hotel corridors.men began offering a guarded secret. Not even his Daily Sketch, that have any of accuracy. But considerable sums to back the French found shelter in an old barn. Here style of side and but even in his foot work and surface lines direct to the arena. This pretence stepping feinting, feinting he t he Evening Standard and affiliated something like an average expenditure boxer. Wall street betting Georges shadow boxed for half an hour handlers had been informed.immediatehas style entirely his own. When he fought last year in will relieve congestion to some extent and performed acrobatic stunta, Levinsky Jersey City the tube and downtown ferr.v slips. will rush photographs takenpubicatlons,at per person was sought and then professed to be surprised,commissionersbut The location of the private residence he disclosed but little of his real He a at a rafter for his horizontal bar. ability. will prove fifteen puzzle to But the bulk of the fistic enthusiasts, t;he ringside out to the liner Zeeland of by 75,000 because it was agreedmultipliedthey became more interested when tlhey utilizing In Jersey City where Dempsey will Dempsey to-morrow. .Tack will find no slow moving, slow Fulton, that there would be at least that many found that as Carpentier money Trainer Wilson then arrived with thinking except those going iby motor car.and {he Red Star which sails to-mor and ran back to Wtllard or Morris before him.