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ST. CROIX STATION.
De npsey
wins
hy
knock
out in fourth
round.
Gong rang.
Round
one
is off. Car-
pentier
was
the first
to lead,
pushing
a
lightning left
to Dempseys
face.
Quickly
the
Frenchman
tried
a right hand swing
to Dempseys
face at close
quarters,
drove
in
a
hard
body punch.
They
went
to
the ropes.
Jack
tried a left hand swing
to
the
back
of
the
head.
Carpentier
was
not
afraid ®to fight.
He steps
with
right to
head
but
Jack kept hammering
the
body
with
left
hand.
Dempsey
blocked
a
right
and land~"
~ hady blow.
They
were
clinched,
he
jumuped
back
however,
and
ran
into
a
mix in which
he held his own
till the bell.
2nd.
round.
Before
Dempsey
could
lead,
Carpentier
tried
a
right
which
missed
the head by several
inches.
Again
he
attempted
to
put th's blow over and
reached
the
neck,
Dempsey
seemed
to
lack the
speed
that made him beat
Will-
ard, and
sparred
for
several
moments
as
if wondering
how
o
attack.
The
Frenchman
used
feet
and battled
away
looking Dempsey
over with a ouzzled
ex-
pression.
A right hander raised
a lump
on Dempsey
left eye,
and quick as a flash
Carpentier
drove
home
a
right
to
the
chin that
made
Dempsey
stagger
to
the
ropes.
It was
a terrific punch,
and only
Dempseys
wonderful
endurance
saved
"him from a
knock-out.
Carpentier
with
a quick
attack
made Dempsey
reel.
He
was in distress
for a few minutes.
Demp
sey
was
very slow
during
the
last
two
.
seconds.
““either
because
Carpentiers
blows had hurt,
or
his condition
was
not
as
good
as
had
been reported.
At any
rate,
Carpentier
had
this round,
and his
CHEISTIANSIED.
Y.l. U SiA.
TBURRLAY
718
JULY
1921,
stock took a big boom.
The
world cham
pton looked
amazed
and
stunned
when
he
sat
down.
Round three.
Carpentier
had his
left
eye
c¢'t
open
when
he
came
up
and
'boxed
at
iong
range
for
a
moment
Demp
ey
clumnsily
tried
to
box,
Car-
pentier
caught
him
unde-
the
ear,
which brought
a clineh,
stepping
clear,
Georges
tried
two
viscious
right
hand
upper
cuts,
which raised
the point of the
jaw,
once
more
Carpentier
let
h:s left
fly. only 1> mssby
a hairline.
Dempsey
coafined
is
efforts
in
blocking.
The
Frendhman
finally stepped
away
to
es-
cape
punishment
around
the belt.
Then
stepping
back
Carpentier
put
left
for
the
neck.
(arpentier
put
Jack
to
the
rove
and
trounced
him
to the stomach
until
Jack
clinehed.
DNempsey
towards
the end of the third, began
to
fight with
great
vigour and
Carpentier
held
at the
bell.
It was Carpentier
round.
Round
four.
Carpentier
began
to
em-
ploy foot work
as
soon
as
he got up,
but
Jack
followed
him
closely,
and started
to slug.
He
made
Georges
clinch with
body blows and
hooks
on
the chin.
<~ck
missed
a right
to the
jaw, and Carpen-
tier knocked
it with both landing, Demp
sey
broke
out
a clinch
and
followed his
man closelv and suddenly
swung
a light-
ning right
hander
under
the jaw.
Car.
pertier
droppee
on
his
side
dazed
and
bewildered.
He
wriggled
around
the
floor
as
if his
legs
and
arms had been
broken.
Referee
stood
over
him
and
counted the seconds
slowly and deliberate-
ly.
At
the
count
of
nine
Carpentier
staggered
to
his
feet
wild
eyed
and
weak.
He
looked
around
for Dempsey
and raised
his hand.
Dempsey
bounded
forward and drove
a second
right to the
Frenchman’s
heart.
This
blow
settled
the fight.
London, July Ist.—Players
beat gentle-
men
today
by
an
innings
and
three
runs.
The winners
declared
at
608
for
eight wickets.
Hardinge
jmade
127,
London, July
2nd.—Great
Britain
Las
notified Japan
that
owing
to
the
deci-
sion of Lord Birkeihead,
the
Lord High
Chancelior,
to the effect
that the Anglo-
Japanese
treaty,
ever
if denounced
on
July
15th.,
will automatically
run
for
another
year,
the
question
of
a
three
months
extension
of the treaty
has been
dropped.
.
London,
July
Ist.—Australians
made
675
against
Nottingham,
Mc Cartney
scored
345.
Mead
for Hampshire
made
113 and 224 against
Sussex.
Ringside
Jersey
City,
July 2nd —Jack
N
157
Dempsey
proved
himself
the
reatest
.
fighter in the world
this afternoon
when
.
he knocked
out
Georges
Carpentier,
the
-
idol of France
in
the
fourth
reund.
A
-
vigorous right
to
the jaw ended
the bout
'
and brought the fight to a climax wa.n
it
~
looked as if it might go on for many
more
|
rounds.
After
one minute
of the fourth
'
rounds
Dempsey
crashed
his
right
to
'
Carpentier’s
jaw,
and
the
Frenchman
-
went
down
in
awild-eyed
deschamps
-
looking at him
from
his corner
in abso-
|
lute
terror.
Dempsey
stood
a
space
.
away
from
the
prostrated
Frenchman,
|
with his right
hand ready
o
finish the
.
task.
Carpentier
arose
with
an
effort.
|
He
had
hardly
straightened
himself
|
when Dempsey
crashed
his right
to his
.
heart
after
one
minute and
sixteen
sec-
|
onds.
The
Frenchman
fell
to
the floor
'
with
a
thud
that
rocked
the rigg.
He
.
was
obviousiy
out,
the
count
was
up-
)
necessary.
Dempsey
stood
ove:
him
again,
apparently
unwilling to
be fooled
'
by
a gong like he was
in Toledo two yé®ars
l
ago.
He seemed
to snap
out deep ‘hought
|
when
Jack
Kearns
rushed
and
threw
his
arm
around
him.
Kearns
tried
to
.
put
the
champion
to his
corner but
he
-
bushed
him aside leaned
over and picked
.
up Carpentier,
holding
him
in
his arms
until
the
frantic
Descham):s
climbed
.
through
the
ropes
and
dragged
the
.
Frenchman
to
his
corner,
Carpenijer
.
was out for fully
three
minutes.
Evep
.
~
when he left the ring nearly
ten minutes
.
later
he “could
not
hold
himself erect.
'
He
smiled
when
Dempsey
approached
.
him and shook hands
with his left glove
.
over_the Frenchman’s
shoulder.
“(.
.
pentier
is a fine boy and gave
me a tough
~
fight.
I
am
going
home
as
soon
as|
.
can,” he said
to the press
box.
Demp-
|
sey
won the fight
with his
terrific body
'
punch,
He
found
out in the first roun.]
'
that
he
could
take
the
vaunted
right
.
h
nd
punch
of
the
Frenchman
anc
he
.
waded
ir,
fighting
a
typical
Dempsey
-
fight and pounding the Frenchman
with-
.
out
regarding
his defence.
Dempscy’s
punches
were
quite
übviously
wearing
|
down
the
Frenchman.
After
the
fiyst
.
round
Carpentier
recovered
and
came
|
back
in
the
second
to fight
a running
|
battle.
In
the
middle
of the
second
round be got
a
staggering
right flash
to
Dempsey’s
jaw.
He
rocked
the cham.
pion
against
the
ropes
and
the
ecrowd
yelled like maniacs
when
Carpentier
fol-
lowed
his advantage
with
rights
apd
lefts
to Dempseys
jaw, the
Frenchman
—_—
:
(Continued
on 4th page.)