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3 SIX TOUGH DAYS SCENES OS THE WAVERLEY GOLF COURSE IS THE FINAL ROUND OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP GOLFERS Will Ee Keenly Interested in Knowing That We Have the Wonderful Soon to Come an End to Ifa and Ands of Big Fight. Craig Golf Machine IN OUR SIXTH FLOOR SPORTING GOODS STORE NO ALIBIS WILL AVAIL Carpentier No Longer to Be Secret Special Demonstration and Dempsey to Know if He Has 3Iet "Waterloo. Tomorrow and Tuesday TIIE SUNDAY ORECOXTAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 26, 1021 Ull BEFORE GO BY HARRY B. SMITH. NEW YORK. June 25. (Special.) Six days more remain. They will be tough days for the fishlers, who have come almost to the end of their train ing, and tough days as well for the newspaper boys, who hmve had their eay. and find the decrease in work outs hardly productive of news. Then will come an end to the "ifs" and "ands" and finis to the mysteries of the Carpentier camp and to the hieh tension that has lately marked affairs at Atlantic City, where Jack I'empsey has held forth. There can be no more covering up: no further questioning as to what the battle will brinp forth. It will be spread out before us and if our foresight was as good as our hindsight, we could all pick winners. Late in the afternoon Saturday next for it is paid the fight will not be started until 4 o'clock. New Tork time, which means noon in Portland Jack Pempsey. champion of the w-orld, and Georges Carpentier, chal lenger, will climb into the ring, take their applause, their introductions. face an army of cameramen and then away. No Alibi of Avail. Alibis or lack of condition will be ef no avail when the gong has Bounded and the referee has waved the two men together. Then unless something untoward is in the wind- it win be a case of the best man winning. Carpentier will no longer be on public exhibition, and, though he will dc a certain amount of work in pri vate, so far as the rank and file of sporting writers are concerned. Thursday was the final opportunity to get a line on him. Dempsey, on the other hand though there already Is announced a s.ackentng in hard work went through a fairly stiff pace today and will again wear the gloves tomorrow afternoon, rest Monday, box again on -luesday. and likely take it mighty easy for the remainder ofthe week. Bombihrll la Thrown. In the face of the almost unani mous sentiment that Dempsey has trained himself into good condition, Ed Smith, the Chicago fight expert, threw a bombshell with a story to the Chicago paper he represents, in which he stated that Dempsey's in creased weight has been played to improve the appearance of the cham pion and that Dempsey's wind is bad and altogether he looks far from the boy he was two years ao at Toledo. On that score I'll have to disagree with Smith. Dempsey from all 1 could judge during the time he was in the gymnasium the other after noon and in a brief chat with him, is in good shape and has nothi m to fear on that score. Of course, he's not getting any younger, but 26 ii "in uiu age. ana the years snuuian i nave taken any of the stay ing powers from him. CARPENTIER IS SMALLEST M&M "' vi:.;', :fe rj DE.MPSEV BIGGER IV ALL DCT i ',y - '' Vv-l - ' s - ,V - -l ' , - ' - fi M I " TWO MEASUREMENTS. ' fc' , , J j ' K AC - " . 5 I f V V ! V rv:AI T I t W-Y Hl 4yr- ir?ij 'V..' UiY.l ;r pljv: ' ' llffX ya41 S . "-' ;M ; I li -- y jr fy. j N I "-v '....-. V . ' . f- . v . s. . , - ,1 Champion AVHI Outweigh dial lengrr by 20 Pounds; Willard Largest Holder of Crown. No nrlling Kvidfnt. T41 . 11 iiiera is any Dettlng on the out come of the match. I don't seem to find it. The ordinary man about wno 11K0S to have a bet down seems to have come to the conclu sion that he can't afford to give any such odds as 3 to 1 or better on Dempsey. and In consequence lively wagering, such as we have known in wic (Jdsi, ls at a standstill. Sentiment of the newspaper writ isZt.. v y increases that the -s..t -.1, ue a snort one, with Demp ? . Wlnner- Jack Gleason, abbot of the Friars' club, about sums up the prevailing opinion when he h.''raUer,!,OW fast CarP?ntler is. he is too email for Dempsey. It's the International aspect that holds this match together, otherwise it would be laughed out of existence." Demp.cy Barken Many rlWf p?rhaIs those of us who In cline to the same opinion will come "!rPpfr' Possibly Georges Car pentier will prove another young But if the unexpected does hap pen, we 11 have one consolation that li ISfr5l IoJes comPa"r. there will be no lack of a crowd. It was rather an interesting con- ot?fiti0nv,1 .uad at Atla"" City with Charles Mathieson. New York Heraid fight expert, who knew Dempsey from before the Toledo days, and had seen Carpentier in several of his import ant matches, having made the trip to London for the Beckett fight Mathieson said that so far as the Dempsey-Brennan fight is concerned. It should be thrown e ".LuniiuM. ne, ror one, has ..io.wi.b suspicion mat an was not s It should lvave been and says also that Dempsey had not trained him- oeii uuo conaition. NEW TORK. June 23. Georges Carpentier. challenger of Jack Demp sey, will be smaller, in several re spects, than any boxer who has fought for the title in recent years. Tommy Burns, from whom Jack John son wrested the crown, was snorter but heavier and more compactly built. Bob Fitzsimmons, on the day he lost the championship to Jim Jeffries at Coney Island, weighed 172 pounds, al most exactly what Carpentier will weigh when he' climbs into the ring. Dempsey will be larger than Carpentier in all save two important measurements. Carpentier s advan tages will be In his wonderfully de veloped lower limbs and his neck. The Frenchman's calf measurement 163 inches as compared with Dempsey's 154- Carpentier's neck measures 16 inches, with Dempsey's V4 inch smaller. Dempsey will outweigh Carpentier by about 20 pounds. He will stand Vt inches taller. He 'will outreach his rival by one inch, 74 inches to 73. j In wrist and ankle development they are nearly equal, only a fraction of an inch giving Dempsey the advan tage in each case. Dempsey's biceps measures 16 '4 inches as compared with Carpentier's 14V&. Carpentier's back muscles, however, are a mag nificent part of his development, and from these he will draw most of his hitting power. In several respects Jess Willard. the Kansas giant whom Dempsey knocked out in three rounds, was the largest champion. In several other respects the more compact Jim Jeff ries outstripped Willard easily. Wil lard. for his size, was not developed as highly, in a physical way, as sev eral others who have held the title. Willard. at fighting weight, scaled 240 pounds and towered 6 feet 6 Inches in the air. His reach of 83 xk inches was far greater than that of other title holders. His chest meas urement of 39 inches, normal, was seven inches less than that of "Jeff." Jeffries' waist, neck, biceps and ankle development was greater than that of Willard and Willard's calf measure ments were only a fraction of an inch larger than Jeffries'. Following are the physical meas urements of the champion and diiii lenger as well as those of the former holders of the heavyweight title since Corbett won it in 1S92: Demp- Carpen- Wil tier. .. - . . J.. . .t i. . m lJ.' - it- li .n? uj In white. The man fttrppins- toward him ix GeorKe Von Elm. who won the champlonMhlp. Brlow- At rinht. isSSfT: 'Z?,'SPT?' 'J Mm. Fred Ja.kj.on of Seattle, runner-up for lh women's champlonxhlp. Center. Ml. Phoebe Nell Tldmnri.li of Seattle, who won the nomrn'i rhnmplonxhlp. At left, H. Chandler Kgan of Waverler, who lost the I'aclflc northwest championship to (ieorge Von Kim of Salt Lake by the slim margin of 1 up on the 38th hole, GEORGES, MINER, DANCER, SINGER, BOXER DE LUXE French Champion's Career Picturesque From Time of Debut as Fighter to Entry in World War as Battling Aviator. TAB- BOY W BACKS JACK NEW YORK, June 25. tier's courteous deme evident culture, unus Carpentier Can Hit. mr carpentier. and that is the man ia wnom we are chiefly inter rsieu, aiacneson saya he can hit. uuumtr oi nis matches have proved, but that once hit, himself. Carpentier doPs not seem to bear up under punishment any too bravely. ..ric mc otL'Kcu matcn. Mathieson j i'j Lii'iiu-raio American pug could have taken the measure of xtecKeii me nignt In question. The Levinsky match, says the New York er, was another case of a weakling against a good man. So far as to the s-tress laid on Carpentier's failure to show his best work in his public inning, ii seems to me that has been engnuy overaone. une can under stand wny carpentier is annoyed by crowds during his training siege. The daily attendance is an American Institution, and the continental fight er finds it a bother that he wants to get away from. Andy Glarner tells me that even when Carpentier was in training for ins mum inipurtant matcn, it was a rare thing to find more than three or four Paris newspaper men visiting his camp on a given day. And here In New York there are a hundred or so of us anxious for a close-up with an opportunity, chiefly lacking to be sure, of asking the man a lot of questions he probably could not answer. Further, he is none too deft in his use of the American lan guage, another reason for his seclu sion. Xet Men Lose to Tlklen. Tennis Champion William T. Tildea. In annexing the hard court crown, beat a Spaniard, a Frenchman, a Kusslan, an Englishman and a Bel gian in the recent Faris champion abipa. Fey. Ae 28 WelBht If 8 Height, feet. 6.1 Keacti. ins... 4 Chest (nor.). 42 Chest (exp.). 411 Waist :u Neck 1 '4 W'rlJt Biceps 16 '4 Calf l.V. Ankle Jonn' Kon. Are 37 Welirht 220 Height, leel.o. 14 Rfa.-h. Ins... 73 Chest (nor.) . Si 4 Chest (exp ). 2 Waist 36 Nck 174 Wrist 114 Biceps 16 Calf 15 Ankle Ubi Jef- lard. fries. 32 3.- 172 240 22S 5.11 li 6.6 6.14 73 83 V4 73 41 3!l 4fl 4314 44',4 511 U 31 36 30 164 17'4 1H 7',. 84 8V4 1414 13 18 111 17',- 17 8Vi 0V 10 Fltz- Corbett. slm's. Burns. 33 180 6.1 74 3S 42 33 17 04 144 14 '4 8 37 172 S.ll 744 H 46 33 1 7K 13 14 8 170 0.7 74 hi 40 41 33 1 10V. 8 Age at which title was lost. FIGHT BCXCO ARTIST BUSY Confidence Man Finds Xumerous Easy Marks Overseas. The old "sure-thing" confidence game, which was worked to death at Keno, prior to the Jeffries-Johnson fight, reappeared in Paris recently. A slick-looking individual would be gin conversation witn strangers around the American bars and then confide he had just landed from the United States. "I'm on the Inside. It's a frameup and I know positively who will be the winner," says the sure-thing bird. "I got every nickel I could beg, bor row or steal on it, but it's such a cinch I want to get more down. Now, I won't ask you for a sou, but if I tell you the winner will you put down 100 francs for me and pay me after you collect?" A good many tourists fell for this fellow, and it was only when Ameri cans started comparing notes they discovered the fraud. Half of them had been told that Carpentier was a sure winner and the other half that Dempsey was certain of victory. Thus he believed himself certain to col lect from half the persons he tipped. Rule Book Given Players. Working on the theory that suc cessful gridiron campaigns of the fall 'are best begun in the summer. Head Coach Jack Connell of Dart mouth has recommended that candi dates take a football with them on forthcoming vacations for practice hi hai.dling and kicking, and to tuck a rule book into a pocket for study. Exercise through t.ie season is ordered, with an injunction, however, against too much swimming. A ma.i cannot be a good football player and a swimmer, too, It is bel'eved. Actual practice will start September 5. , J 25. Carpen- meanor, and sual in a boxer, have created the Impression in America, that he is the son of wealthy parents. This is not so. The son of a miner, Carpentier was birn in Lens, the coal-mining center of France, January 12, 1894. He started work, as an office boy in a brewery. The ring called at an early age, however, and when only 14, he to.'k up boxing: then being popular ized in France by the visits of ."Kid" McCoy and other American fighters. At the same time he was dancing and singing in the cafes and restaurants of his native Lens,, with Francois Descamps, who has ever since been his companion, guardian and manager. It was Descamps who discovered in Carpentier the requisites of a poten tial boxer. He atttmpted, one day to punish the youth, using boxing gioves rather than the American "switch." In the midst of the sched uled "punishment," Descamps relates that "Georges sidestepped with agil ity and pouf! the- lights suddenly went out on me. From that moment Georges was boxer. Descamps, somewhat of a fighter himself, took the youth into his gymnasium to train him. H' fought three four-round battles in that first year and his total ring earn ings amounted to 184. He will re ceive that much for each two seconds of his bout with Dempsey, provided the match goes the scheduled 12 rounds. Carpentier' Rise Rapid. Since that time Carpentier has climbed steadily and slowly. Some times he has slipped, but the progress has been consistently forward and upward. He gained his first knock out in 1908 when, as a bantamweight he stopped Mulnereau in three rounds. The same year he defeated Salmon, one of England's cleverest little men In 18 rounds. A short time later he knocked out in one roun wetinck, a lad who had almost held -him even two years before. It was in 1909 that Carpentier de feated Charlie Ledoux. famous French bantamweight and the craftiest boxer that the lad had met up to that time. More fame followed when he defeated Paul Til in 10 rounds, but soon after Georges was knocked out by Gloria in six rounds. Carpentier met his first Ameri can opponent, Frank Loughrey. in May, 1911, winning a decision. Meeting the best of American box ers, including Harry Lewis, a wel' known midleweight, and Dixie KrJ, by whom he was knocked out in five rounds, he nevertheless developed steadily, gaining in weight, strength and cleverness, until he defeated Jim Sullivan for the middleweight cham pionshop of Europe. Defeats Mark 1912 Record. Two defeats at the hands of the Americans, Billy Papke and Frank Klaus, marked his 1912 record. Papke stopped Carpentier in 17 rounds and Frank Klaus beat him on a foul when the nimble-brained Descamps clam bered into the ring to have his pro tege from a knockout. The two bouts with Bombardier Wells, both of which the Frenchman won by knockouts, featured his 1913 battles Carpentier showed great gameness in his first fight with Wells when be was knocked down for the count of nine in the first round, but came back to win in the fourth. The second Wells battle was a Carpentier victory in one round. In . the same year he knocked out Cyclone Smith, Bandsman Rice and George Gunther. Carpentier lost no ground in the eyes of ring followers when defeated by Joe Jeannette, the American negro heavyweight, early in 1914. It was to his credit that he twice sent the negro to the mat for counts'of niueJ But the war was close at hand and his six-round victory over Gunboat Smith on a foul was his only impor tant battle before the young French man exchanged boxing gloves for an airplane and machine gun. Exhibitions behind the lines com posed his entire boxing activities un til 1919, when, shortly after being discharged from the service, he knocked out Dick Smith in Faris. Since that time his battle with Joe Beckett of England, which he won in a round, and that in which he knocked out Battling Levinsky in four rounds at Jersey City last summer, have been his only contests of impor tance. The Levinsky fight is the only one in which Americans have seen Carpentier in formal action on this side of the water. It was a fiasco, so far as a championship test is con cerned. The Frenchman will climb through the ropes on July 2 an un known quantity, so far as the first hand information of American boxing fans is concerned. JOHXSOX SAYS SECOXD-RATER COULD BEAT CARPENTIER. HARTLEY COM IX G BATTLER Boxer Believed to Figure Strongly for Lightweight Crown. NEW TORK. June 25. Pete Hart ley, who is being groomed for a chance at the lightweight crown, has been coming to the front at double quick time. He is managed by Leo P. Flynn, who also holds the reins for Bill Brennan, contender for the heavyweight championship. It is rumored in eastern boxing cir cles that 3enny Leonard refused $12. 500 to meet Hartley before a Boston club. When the title holder refused to take on the Durable Dane, efforts were made to get Hartley a match with Rocky Kansas, conquerer of Richie Mitchell on two different occa sions, but the New York Italian also declined to hook up with the Gotham boy. even though he had been offered $10,000 for his end of the purse. That Hartley is a good one is shown by his record. He has fought an tne leading men of his weight in the country and has floored both Richie Mitchell and Willie Jackson in Philadelphia. During his entire fighting career Hartley has never been knocked off his feet. LYXCH WILL FIGHT JULY 25 International Sporting Club to Stage Contest. The International Sporting club landed one of the best matches of the year when it obtained the signature of Bantamweight Champion Lynch and his most formidable rival, ex Champion Herman. The club announced that the con test between the pair will take place in Ebbets field July 25, with popular prices for the public and free seats for the members as one of five big entertainments arranged for the sum mer. Herman has begged for the opporr tunity and is hopeful of regaining the title, having won the right to a re turn match by virtue of a Ions Hiring of decisive victories, including his knockout of the hitherto invincible Jimmy Wilde. The boxers will get 70 per cent of the net receipts. The first $37,500 of this amount will be paid to Lynch and the balance to Herman. Mead to Captain Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash., June 25. Catch er Walter Mead was recently elected captain of the Spokane university baseball team for 1922 at a meeting of the letter winners. Mead cap tained the team this year and starred on the Spokane university nine, which won ' the Spokane Intercollegiate championship. Ex-Champion, Completing Prison Term, to Fight Wills In Xew York Aug. 20 for $30,000. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June 25. Georges Carpentier has but little chance to take the heavyweight pu gilistic crown from Jack Dempsey in their contest at Jersey City July 2, in the opinion oc Jack Johnson, ex- heavyweight champion, who is com pleting a term of one year in the fed eral penitentiary here on a white slavery conviction. Carpentier Is just ' an ordinary fighter and' is not capable of swap ping punches with Dempsey," John son said today. "1 have seen him box I have never seen Dempsey box, bu from what I have heard and even if he is a good second-rater, be should beat Carpentier. Johnson, weighing 230 pounds and apparently In good physical condition, will meet Harry Wills, a negro heavy weight champion, in New York on august 20. Johnson has been guar anteed $30,000. Upon his release from Leavenworth at the expiration of his sentence July 7. Johnson will box several bouts in Kansas, the first of which is sched uled for Leavenworth that night, against Jack Grover of Chicago. Since he has been in Leavenworth penitentiary Johnson has obtained patents on two devices an anti theft appliance for motor cars, and a monkey wrench. UXIFORM OUTFITS TOO HIGH Younir America Flavins In Old Clothes or Their Best. BOSTON, June 25. Young America is playing baseball this year in its worst clothes or its best: uniforms are rare on sand lots and play grounds. High costs have put tne much-desired shirt, pants ana cap in the class of luxuries. The uniform outfit that sold for $3.50 before the war was marked at $S when the season opened tnis year. The latter price prevailed last sum mer, and while sales decreased from pre-war figures, the demand was fair. But after father's wages went down or stopped altogether last fall and winter, the allowance ior sonny a sports was cut with the result that the call for uniforms Tell orr abruptly this spring. Although the season is still young, prices have already been reduced once in most sporting gcrods houses here. But while other items in the boy ballplayer's equipment are also in excess of pre-war prices, there is a heavy demand for them. The game itself is being played by more boys than ever, according to dealers in athletic goods, and bats, balls and gloves are being bought in large numbers. pitched for the first club which rep resented New York in the National league and pitched the first game played by that outfit. He hurled the opening game at the Polo grounds on May 2, 1888, and bea; the Bostons, in spite of Troy's five errors. That contest established what was a record for attendance 20.000. The gates had to be closed and the players were forced to jump over the fence to get into the park. "The game surely has prospered and made advances," said Mickey, as he looked about the big concrete sta dium and watched the crowd of more than. 15,000. EX-GIAXTS STAGE REUNION Mickey Welch and Hank O'Day Meet for First Time Since '8 9. NEW YORK, June 25. There was quite a reunion at the Polo grounds recently. Mickey Weloh once star pitcher for the Giants, met Hank O'Day, now umpire, and fellow hurler for the New Yorks in 1889. They had pot seen each other since those old days of '89 at the old ro grounds. Welch and Hank fell on each other s necks, and after a fanning bee, in which, they talked about their old mates Roger Connor, Johnny Ward, now a prosperous lawyer and golfer; Gillespie. Dasher Troy and the rest of that great bunch they held an other love feast at the dinner table. Welch, who looks more fit than some of the men who now are play ing the game, was full of reminiscence about the old days of the Giants. He! Illinois Coach Up to Many Tricks. For the last few weeks Harry Gill, coach of the University of Illinois track teams, which competed in the Penn relays, has been trying to pur chase shoes with longer outdoor spikes. 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