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THE GREAT FIGHT.
'HOW DEMPSEY WON,
[HY B. BENNISON.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 1991.
If he had been hit with a hammer and, as he rocked, there was not a single member of the stupendous congregation of folk who did not jump to his fest and howl in his excitement. Deocampa was almost choking. He could only wave The greatest drama in pugilistic his- his arms Carpentier, seeing the condi tory ended at Jersey City, when Georges tion of Dempsey, went out to complete Carpentier, the most wonderful boxer the work new more than half done. Hut, reared by France, his fighting senses for almost the first time during his care- still alive, but his tanned body, with theer, he became impossibly reckless; he strength eaten from it, lay stretched on throw caution to the winds; he worked the door of a white-roped square. He his arms like a windmill, and although lap on his side, his legs twitching, Dempsey appeared to be rooted to the
his eyes staring, his left hand bent floor of the ring, and had no cast iron t
ing the air wildly, the while Harry Erile, the referee, stood over him count ing the seconds. One hundred thousand people were on their feet screaming only was there pandemonium-as the curtain was being rung down on an event which, as would some magnet, had drawn folk from the far corners of the vast American continent, from Europe, from everywhere. Francois Descamps, his ferrety eyes wet with tears, his hair dishevelled, and Charles Ledoux, sickly pale, were huddled at the foot of the Frenchman's
corner, They knew we all know that Jack Dempsey could not
stefance Carpentier could not find a vulnerable spot. Instead of being a good Beneral of Eimself he allowed the Ameri- such tenacity that be was able to take a can to get into a clinch and hold on with
Carpentier had lost the opportunity of breather, and when the gong sounded winning the greatest of all victories.
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111AMERICAN'S TERRIFIC ATTACK. When Dempsey came up for the third round he appeared to be as fresh and SHANGHAI as strong as he did before the fight, and, if say thing, he was more aggressive. tie suggested that he had forgotten all about the crash on the jaw a few moments MANILA before. Straightway he went after Car-
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his swarthy face drawn, his teeth glisten and got a light left hand to the face but ing and flashing, his small, dark eyes Dempsey demanded that the fight should shooting out fire, stood aside da tiptoe, betons only at close quarters. Carpen his loog, gorilla-like arms hanging by tier could not escape and suffered to his side ready to crush Carpentier have his ribs rattled and nearly broken." a right and left uppercuts which should be scramble to his feet. Men in Dempsey ripped and slashed into the TIENTSIN
Tho the American's corner Jack Kearns and Frenchman's body would have broken any others-shouted. n. rasping, hoarse voices,
Wait, Jack; you've got him ordinary man. As I watched him beat BANGKOK stiff." And then, when. Ertle had cont Carpentier groaning.
and batter, I imagined that I could hear ed off the tenth second, there burst forth man, like the courageous man he is, held
But the Freuch long, deafening roar acclaiming
up. The map, the bite, however, had Jack Dempsey still the greatest heavy gone out of Carpentier: he had not, it weight fighting man in the world.
In a twinkling the ring was crowded was just a target for Dempsey to hit and in him to jump and skip around; he by overwrought men, while Dempsey cut and bruise. Dempsey. yielded to the embraces of his manager. Dempsey! But there was a warm reciprocity in Got the guy, good old Jack." him. He merely stood as if wondering him on the jaw. Knock his block whether it could all be true. For a few Such was the din that it was almost im- offi brief seconds he was na one transfixed. possible to bear the signal that the ond There he stood, a magnificent figure of a lof the round had come man, for a moment like some wonderful
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was screeched.
¡ 17:—THE. KNOCKOUT.
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piece of mechanism. His gaze was fastened Capentier had lost his spendid shape on the beaten, broken, semi-conscious and confidence as he was half carried to Frenchman, as the crying Descamps his stool. He did not smile now. There clutched his protege, and, with helpers, was a big red patch on the side of his carried him to his corner, there to fan nose and purple daubs were painted all. him, to pet and condole with him, and fourth and last round full of heart. But over his body. Still, he entered the as the big eyes of Carpentier opened four slowly, to have it borne upon him that is was a sickly smile, a smile of supreme he was not to enjoy the triumph of his doubt, as Descamps shouted in his ear. life. Carpentier knew then-in this
You will win, mon, cheti, two more fourth round-that he had been sent top flashing brightness now; they were dull.
Carpentier's eyes were pling to defeat, that the dream of yester How different was be to Dempsey nahe dey, a dream all bright and rich in lef his corner. The American did splendour, was but an ugly, gruesome not appear in
the least disturbed nightmare, and as he gave himself over or distressed. mentally or physically. trickled, then raced down his classical ing attitude than Carpentier
get past face. A pathetic figure, indeed, was Dempsey with his left, but when he Carpentier. But in this game of boxing brought his right over Dempsey dodged there is no room, no thought, for tears it and concentrated on the body. Rip. or pathos. And, as did the mighty ping and slashing did the American's throng to-day, I would give Dempsey left and right go, and Carpentier was every possible credit for the victory bent with pain.
Forced to the ropes, which he wron. His triumph was com- he carried himself after the macner plete and unmistakables no clement of owning man clutching at a straw.
He to little luck entered into it. Dempsey was the clinch; his arms were weak and tired; but hug and better, the stronger fighter. His victory he had not even a punch worthy of a subtlety, or from craftiness, but from his spirit unbreakable. On weat Demp physical bigness, from power. "He was like a buge rock that could not be even y punching-one, two three, four, to the splintered, and from the first sound of body, and from the last blow Carpentier was double ap and on the top of his
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THE FOUR ROUNDS.
-Z-FRENCHMAN NEARLY OUT.,
viciousness that was in Dempsey. Down he fell with a bang. Referee Ertle stood over him and, called
seconds.
At the court of nine Carpentier pulled himself on his feet, but he was crually. It was exactly eighteen minutes past hands of the tall. mahogany-tike Demb unsteady. Now he was a child in the three o'clock when Carpentier and Dempsey, after having the rules governsey. There was nothing for the American ing the contest explained to them were to do, but to hit the Frenchman.
This called by the gong to begin. Carpentier he did, and down went Carpentier, who, almost flew from his corner, and, to the telling of the limit of helplessness, was Then the thunder of ex accompaniment of a chorus of "Oh's counted out. shot his left hand to the American's face ding of tears, of the trimphant and the citement, the shouts of joy and the shed. He made no impression, however, on Dempsey, on whose unshaven face wa vanquished of which I have written. CARPENTIER'S FRANK AEMISSIÓN. writ only savage determination. Demp
There is not the least doubt that Demp sey moved quickly, the very soul of aggression, so that he might forte Livesey is all his countrymen claimed him self to close quarters. Carpentier snap- they bad since the days of Fitzsimmons
to be. No
more formidable fighter have ped out three left hands, but he did no and Corbett He, indeed, is a super- sort of damage, and, amid a kind of
He is not only prodigiously Wild West whoop from the onlookers, strong, but, unlike many strong men I Dempsey got to the Frenchman with a have known in the ring, can take the right and left to the ribs. They were hardest punch without quaking, and he dall, sickening blows which he landed, fights fairly and above board. The battle and a look of pain crept into Carpen this afternoon, was without vice or pasti.
It was tier's face, and when Dempsey thump, 'ness in it
model and ed him on the top of the head Carpen- fought with every regard for
sports tier tore himself out of a clinch, and, marship, and not even the blindest parti as he got free, it was plain to see that
met a better and stronger,
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he had been shaken. For one brief second the Frenchier'a camp will deny that
but Carpentier, holding tight to his frankly admitted the
it looked as if Dempsey would finish the man in Dempsey. Carpentier, whom contest there and then. He was fighting saw afterwards at Manhasset, though like some sporting, fearsome monster,.
crest-falinn and woefully dis
quick-thinking mind, shifted around cup coud not hurt him, and he hit me harder
of the American.
Said he ningly, and, jumping forward, drove his than any other man right to the neighbourhood of the jaw. would have beaten anybody this after- ever done. He Dempsey merely shook his black head, noon. The blow which I crashed to and swaying to and fro, made Carpentier Dempsey's jaw reached exactly the sam very wild and utterly out of distance. spot on which I hit Beckett, and it was Carpentier beat the air with his right, every bit as heavy, and yet, I only shook and the oncoming American forced him him. I was sure when I heard the crash self with his back to the ropes, and that he would go down. I was then cer- pounded away at the body, quaking tain of victory. I would not have Georges wince and bend ominously at mention this to excuse myself, hul when the knees. Seldom have I seen the I hit Dempsey in that wonderful/second Frenchman so nearly out as at this round I hurt my thumb, and afterwards particular moment, but by a superhuman was not only in terrible pain but could effort he wriggled away, The next not hit with my right as I should have second he was almost half-through the done. However, I sm beaten. I fought ropea; on his sides were ugly and red my best. I simply lost to a better man. marks, he was breathing heavily-but he Daily Telegraph survived. It must have been a great re- lief for him, however, when he was free to go to his worner. Descamps and Gus Wilson, aided by Ledoux, did all they could to bring the Frenchman, to some- thing like normal conditions, and it must be said that when hostilities were resumed he seemed almost his old self.
IDEMPSEY SHAKEN.
WOMAN HEADS' THE LIST.
distinction in the educational world.
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been placed above No. 1 of the men in the Miss K. Brell, a student of Girtón, has Law Tripos (Part II) at Cambridge. She thus leads the whole list, including. three women and 107 men.
Aged twenty three she is the daughter of Mr. John Spell, solicitor, of Stonegate, Ticehurst,
This second round will never be, for- gotten by all those privileged to have seen it. No sooner had the gong been sounded than Carpentier, on his toes like a greyhound tugging at the leash and on fire feinted with his left and with the full weight of his body behind his right crashed it to Dempsey's jaw. The American was shaken from head to loot. His long legs trembled; it was as in Part 11.
Thirty mon obtain fret class honours in Part I. of the Classical Tripes which no women, reach-but in Part II. three women are in the first-class.
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