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I More Public Interest Vital to Our Merchant Marine . yJ
I America's Great Opportunity in Interna,--'!
tional Trade to Be Visualized at
i National Marine Exposition
I "T T 7" HAT do you really know about the
nation's merchant fleet? Yes, of
course, you are more or less famll-
j 1 iar with the number of cargo carrying bot
toms built here In the course of the last few
years. But how much do you know about
1 the problem, the possibilities, of using these
craft effectively In the widening of foreign
markets for our manifold products?
This momentous subject has been dis
cussed fully and treated at length In tho
news columns of the press, yet It is reason
ably certain our citizenry generally has only
a hazy notion of the laslc that confronts us
n task that must be tackled robustly If wo
are to gain the position which the industry
of our scores of shipyards has placed within
our roach. The best of the situation Is that
. the outlook is exceedingly promising, pro-
1 vided the American people as a whole be
come bent upon making fulfilment a fact.
Exposition to Promote Interest.
To the end that every one of us should be
better nble to visualize the splendid prospect.
New York is to have during the week of
j April 12 a National Marine Exposition. It will
be the first maritime show hero in two
decades; and the object Is that the casual
mood of the entertainment seeker shall bo
transformed into a determination to do his
q . bcs toward making us lastingly strong and
j self-sufficient in tho realm of International
trade.
' Tho exposition will be the visible climax or
years of elTort on the part of the National Ma
rine League of the United Suites of America,
two of whose inspiring slogans are: "Keep tho
I Flog Flying" and "World Trade in American
Ships." The league was organized nine years
ago, and owes Its Inception to the forceful
activities of P. II. W. Hops, whoso previous
"experience in maritime fields amused him to
start a systematic campaign in behalf of a
' j commensurate merchant marine. The need
i of maklnc us Independent upon the sea was
brought convincingly home to him during
i The Boer war. At thai lime Mr. Itoss was
in the banking business In the State of
l Washington and was advancing money upon
receipts for wheat raised by the nclghbor
I in., farmers.
All went alone prosperously and smoothly
T"r a while, steamships carrying the "red
r-nslgn" salllDg regularly laden with tho
crain despatched to ready foreign markets.
! Tnen suddenly Great Britain declared war
upon the Government of Omn Paul, and
1 immediately thereafter the Admiralty com-
f mandeered the nation's far llunc merchant
1 shipping, focusing a vast ageregation of
those craft upon the const ot South Africa
The wheat crowers of our Pacific States
found themselves overnicht without means
J Pi ocean transportation, and their grain oe-
came little short of a drug upon the market.
I Nc wonder, then, that a man ot Mr Ross's
j 2'nrce should become voca! in behalf of a
I 1-efittIng native merchant marine, nor need
j vc marvel that men Ilk t- late J. P. Mor
gan. August Relmont. Alexander Hemphill,
; 15. J. Berwlnd and other, of prominence
should join with Mr. Rni In bringing Into
being a non-partisan, non-political Institu
I Ion Intent upon encouraging the creation
1 r.nd maintenance of an nmplc American fleet
V, ot trade.
As Mr. Ross has expressed It: "Until
the year ot 101-1 our country was mainly a -producer:
nearly all of its Income was de
r'ved from growing or creating things. We
either farmed, mined or by the process of
manufacture changed raw material Into
usablo articles. Then wo sat at our various
ocean gates and let the pcoplo of other na-t-ons
distribute 90 per cent, of our exports
to whomsoever might purchaso them. But
In that fateful year of the world war we
s.woko to the fact that those wh0 control
ihe transportation of our goods also control
tho price we would eventually receive for
those commodities. The shock was a whole
some one. but tho present nc?d IB to guard
r.rainst a self-deceiving recovery. Wo have
got to strike back, we have got to fight hard
IT wo do not Intend to pay henceforth heavy
tribute to other peoples who may be strong
upon tho sea. Hereafter, for our own good,
we must drive an economic span wo must
harness Production with its proper team
mate. Distribution.
"It is being dinned Into us that the need
of the hour, the solution of much or our
unrest and the lowering of the cost of living
depends upon stimulated production, but that
is only half of the story. True, it will bo
to our benefit if. for a time, we Increoso
largely our output and, taking advantage of
the present rates of exchange. Import an
augmented hulk of foreign commodities. But
it is vitally necessary that we see to It ihat
ivo are finding steadily enlarged markets
for our surplus goods; and we can achlevo
this only provided we have unhampered ac
cess to .those markets through the medium of
ships carrying tho Stars and Stripes. If we
don't offset our imports by an outgoing tide
of our own products, our factories will have
to slow down, close perhaps, and American
labor will become Idle. Our newly fashioned
fleets give us ono of the means by which we
ca.ii avoid so grave a contretemps.
Must Reexport to Succeed.
"We shall not succeed In our revived for
eign trade If we rely alone upen what might
bo called direct commerce, i. p.. buying only
what we nopd from alien source? and ship
pine to the foreigner nothing hut our r.wn
commodities. We must develop In America
the business of transshipping or reexport
inc upon a scale heretofore ontlrely un
familiar in our commercial practices. For
Instance, we must use our ships lo sell In tho
Far East coods hrouuhi lo -ur shores In
American bottoms and for which no demand
exists amontr us. And let ds suppose rhat
the commodities In question will find a readv
market in Java. How. you will ask. will the
Javanese be able in make prompt settle
ment? They'll do It in coffoo. sucar. leak
wood. tea. Indigo and rubber And In re
gard to the latter just this word of em
phasis: "Here in the United State wo use eighty
per cent, of the world's lotal production of
rubber, nnd yet we control less than five
per cent, of the original sources of supply
of that material. Do .vju realize ihat
seventy per cent, of the raw rubber of the
world is directly under the control of the
British? Consequently, every tire on every
automobile here, every fountain pen. everv
typewriter, every air brake on every train,
every porous plaster on every achintr back
In the United States pays toll to British c..-
P H W ROSs! 'uHDE'wHOSE DIQ.ECTION MOTIONAL MARINE
week: APR.IL Jfc-IT, WILL BE CELEBRATED to arouse.
PUBLIC INTEREST IN Tffe MERCHANT MARINE
torprise which Is founded upon forethought
and bolstered up by the ships that fly the
British ensign.
"We might lust as well visualize Ameri
ca! Industry In Its entirety as one vast de
partment store, '-low long would n business
bouse of that sort survive In a bustling city,
with rival shops of the same kind. If the de
partment store turned over the dcllverv of
its sales to the vehicles of a competitor? it
would bo merely 'a question of time before
that shortsightedness would compel 4he clos
ing of ihe emporium's doors. I know ihat
It will be asserted that wo got along pretty
well for quite half n hundred years without
moro than a handful of ships in foreign
tiude. but we must not forget ihat conditions
have changed.
"The real basic reason why our merchant
marine declined from about IS60 on to 191-1
waj because the maintenance of an Ameri
can fleet of trade. In proportion lo other
things that our people had to do during that
interval, was of secondary importance, T:
day the situation Is all to the contrary, nnd
without ships of our own to protect and to
regulate the distribution of our products
An.crican mills, farms and manufactories will
suffer tremendous loss. Our position is further
menaced by the fact that we shall be obliged
to nccept untold quantities of foreign made
goods in payment of foreign Indebtedness lo
us; and unless we have our own ships In
which to reexport these commodities natlvo
producers will bo swamped by European
competitors
"The wot k ahead of us Is clearly defined,
livery citizen should realize that it is his
duty to help to keep our vessels busy on
tho Seven Seas nnd to be equally determined
no to allow the legislators of any other
country to dictate how long we are to remain
In the exercise of our maritime privileges.
"I know that It lias been urged thai we
.rnnot compete with the low paid person
nel of foreign craft. But let me remind
Shipping Authorities Declare the. Nation I
Must Distribute as Well as Produce I
or Forfeit Prosperity H
you that the problem is not merely a ques
tion of wages of the seamen and officers:
tho crux of tho situation is the quantity rand
ho character of the work done. As a mat
ter of fact, thero is but little prceent differ
once betweon the scale of wages paid on
American and European s'.dps: and I am
satisfied If wo mako the merchant marine
service comparable as a source of livelihood
with Industrial activities ashore, and offer
evrry reasonable Inducement to the seafarer
'o look' to tho calling as a field of steady
employment, presenting wide opportunities
for advancement, wo shall have no Iroublo
ir. recruiting to the mercantile, fleet youths
nnd men of the right sort,
"To accomplish this nnd the Marino
Lcaguo urges national legislation In several
(fireclions. One measure would require that
'every man who enters the merchant service
of the United States on voyages In foreign
waters must enlist as n seaman of the
United States.' That Is to say, every man
cn a merchant ship operating beyond the
three mile limit shall be pledged by his oath
and obligated to his country and flag Just
as arc h!s brothers who enter the army or
ravy. Again, because the circumstances of
Mfe afloat havo changed with our depend
ence upon mechanical propulsion. It Is de
sirable that a person be able to obtain his
able seaman's papers after nine months'
deck service jit sea or on tho great lakes,
provided he can pass a suitable cxamlna
t'on which shall be proscribed by the De
partment of Commerce.
Urges Wage Amendment.
"As another means or promoting Ameri
ca's merchant marine personnel, the leaguo
Is convinced that Section -1 of the Seamen's
bill, which now permits a sailor to draw five
per cent, of his wages every five days and
fifty percent, on reaching any port, should be
amended. Objection to the present law is based
on the fact that the foregoing provision en
courages a sorjous lack of discipline and leads
to frequent desertions. The 'league believes
that something must be done toward safe
guarding seamen against nautical hazards so
that they will be placed upon a parity, as far
as possible, with workers ashore. This, of
course, cannot be done through the medium
of added pay. Major August Belmont, chair
man of the board of trustees of the Na
tional Marine League, has given this par
ticular matter a great deal of study. Let
me quote somo of his conclusions and recom
mendations: "'It would appear that no Increase of wage
is .necessary or advisable if American ship
ping ,1s to compete with foreign bottoms.
The alternative Is a form of old age pension
or Government Insurance, or a combination
of these two Ideas. There Is no provision
under any net of Congress or of the various
States for either pension, compensation or
Insurance for American seamen on coast
wise or ocean going vessels.
""The compensation laws of the various
States usually either expressly exclude
masters and seamen on vessels engaged In
Interstate or foreign commerce, or limit com
pensation coverage to seamen injured while
actually within tho territorial watcra of the
State. Nor do the various seamen's unions
or institutions provide adequate old age
pensions or Insurance.'
"Major Eclmont's analysis of this ques- fl
i!on makc3 It manifest that much might, IJ
Ic gained toward promoting morale and
oprlt among our deep sea workers if some
form of national Insuranco be guaranteed
r.r.d protection extended lo tho man afloat,
no matter where he may he the world over,.
o long as he serves under tho Stars and
Stripes. Further. It seems to bo very do-
tirable that the merchant sailor be given H
a regular uniform, thus dignifying his ser- -' y -- JR
vice, as in the navy or army. '
"It was the uniform that sufficed as a Kg
'pass' during the war to the numerous clubs . jH
:nstltutcd for the men of our military or-
ganizations. The sailors of our merchant Jip
marine were thus unintentionally dlscrlm- Vi
'nated against. T II
Suggests More Schoolships. p"
"Finally, the league has drawn up a model . - k
nautical training act, which It Is seeking .
to have adopted by all '.hose States in which ' '
schoolships do not at present exlat, Tho
ret contains suggestions whereby those
Ftatea which have no sea front might still
njoy the advantage of nautical schools by
combining with States which have n sea
board. For example, the man in Arkansas
irjght send his boy to the Florida training T
School, or the man In Vermont might send
Ma lad to New York, or the father in West
Virginia might choose to have his son trained jH
al-oard New Jersey's schoolshlp. The States
laving schoolships nt present are: New
York. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and 'fejl
Washington. Due to the efforts of tho . Hl
league, a strong movement Is now under f IH
way in California for a State training ship. Jl
The league desires Congress to demand that IH
the fifteen ports of the United States now
entitled to tho benefit of Federal assistance t
inder the Federal schoolshlp act shall estab- .jl
li.h nautical schools within a definite time IH
cv forfeit their rights under that act so that ,
tho privilege? may be given to other ports ' tHI
vllling to undertake this training. 1BI
"To-day the league numbers about 10.000 IH
members and it is significant that the ma- lH
Virlty of the enrolments are among our citl- !H
zens In the middle West. These wide awake 'H
Americans are keenly alive to the fact that jBI
their continued prosperity hinges upon un- li
failing carriers for their commodities des-
tined to ports overseas, and they realize they ll
cannot do business profitably with foreign il
competitors unless they be able to send their fll
wares broadcast in bottoms carrying their, ilS
own flag. This attitude is spreading rapidly Hfl
back in tho national hinterland and right i Hl
among the great agricultural fraternity. HH
Only tho other day. here in New York State. 'B
tlie dairy farmer suddenly found his export I 19
market closed, and In the main because he iH
could not have the necessary oceangoing llflfl
transportation. From now on be and his jlHB
kind arc going lo Insist that we havo native JB
ships in numbers enough to insuro contact mHSI
with the consumers abroad.
"There is not the slightest question about uEp
ou- being able to hold our own In foreign '9El
trade, but It In Imperative that we as a nco- -HH
pie become 'ship minded.' and look upon a " iNI
s!ii; mortgage, maritime bonds. In much the r 'IB
same light that we view other loans and : jjKff
securities. Ships and shipping must be IKhL
maintained, because without them American lH
industry will be ruined." H
Wi "First Prize Fight io France a.Comedyybut Crowd Didn't Know It.':--; H
IS By STERLING HEILIG.
' - Paris. Saturday.
'rOME old Americans In France are still
puzzled.
' They look back on a lime (it seems
yesterday) when boxing had simply no ex
istence In France; when the world's heavy
I weight championship could be fought at
f Chantllly as on a desert island. The eyes of
all America and oreat Britain were on it.
"Sullivan and Mt'chell
' Went out for to tight." . .
i Yet to Frenchmen ln four newspaper
lines next day) the maWi appeared eccen
! trie, barbarous. Incomprehensible, unlnter-
', rstlng and completely negligible.
; That period lasted until yesterday say,
1907. Yet in the spring ot 1914 Paris con
I flfiered herself tho pug:llstlc centre of the
world. And now Carpcntlcr!
Carpentler Is all right. But has there been
' lime for it to get into their blood and bones
-, io produce great natural fighters? Iiemem-
ber. France was often misjudged before tho
war. France was not degenerate but pa
' ciflc: and. unprepared with heavy artillery,
1 rhc took those German shells on her bare
breast and drove Iho Germans from tho
IMarne.
But boxing scorns different. Neither
' Bayard, nor Athos. Porthos, nor Napoleon
were handy with the mitts. Where Is their
atavism of the "manly ort." the grandslrcs
who '"put up their duk'is" instinctively?
First Knockout in France.
The first knockout- blow ever deliver
Jr. Franco was dealt by Louis Doorr, a
Frenchman, who had lived In America and
' bpcn favorably known in exhibitions before
tho Chicago Athletic Club. Up to recently '
bo conducted a university boxing school
around the Sorbonne. It was aoout 1906.
"Everybody supposed that Doerr's victim was
.killed. The police were preparing to arrest
Coerr. whllo attendants mado perfunctory
efforts to resuscitate the prostrate man by
working his limbs. (Which treatment, of
course, was ineffectual.)
Louis walked carelessly to hi3 corner, took
a sponge from the bucket of water, and,
' elbowing through tho chattering spectators
encumbering the ring, dashed water into tho
' fallen fighter's face. Ho repeated the op-
i cration just once, and tho victim revived
immediately. The crowd was thoroughly
' iKystlflcd; and M. Castcrcs, a then leading
professor of tho aavatc ooxc (hand3 and
feet) led Doerr to one side and Inquired what
? ho had done?
I simply throw water In his face," waa
f. tho honest reply,
j "Remarkable, remarkable I" murmured the
k French specialist
g0 now, for how "le knock-out" came to
!: Axl '
I It -was in 1910. I sav it. Two blue.
Y chinned tragedians, Uirco pale youths, two
(. rt-Xormcd slapstick comedians and thrco
H; j; women members of an all French aggrcga-
HJ tjon missed tho commercial hotel of the llttlo
Hl catering place and fetched up at the moro
fashionable Quinconccs. bubbling with sum
mer boardc-s.
In my room, through the partition, 1
'aught bits ot mysterious rehearsal. The
male force was hurrying Into sparring
tights and bathrobes C). while the girls
hammered on tho door.
"Ah. close1" a cigarette voice whispered:
"you can prink while I am knocking out
Camille. Monsieur Rambo. tell him when
and where he falls. Me don't know yet!
I'm tired of clinching and don't like his
odor." 1
"Ta tn." came the soothing answer,
"clinching Is excessively American. Don't
forget' your infighting 1 shall tell them
Willie's kidney punch is terrible!"
"In America, they're goln' to bar it. Saw
it in the Aufo."
"Is that so? I'll tell them that, too. Now.
attention I They arc going down lo dinner!
Now "
With "now" tho stern phalanx stalked
through the corridors and out into the per
fumed dusk, with vast effect "Brutes!"
murmured the old Colonel. "Heroes!"
whispered the bud roscB. For thrco days
the Casino billboards had announced:
"Battling Johnson Meets All Comers!
Brogan and Hardy. Welter Champions! Ted
Willie Corbctt! Lo Knock Out Guaran
teed ! "
The box office took $21-1. and tho nice
families shuddered at the sponges, buckets,
towels, fans, ropes and manager's brief al
locution: "Mcsdamcs, Messieurs! Tho 20 centimes
supplement stamped on each ticket, and
which you havo paid, constitutes your re
ceipt for life and accident premiums of tho
evening. No pugilist's family can come
back on you for damages. Tho Casino au-
thorltles are equally covered. Spectators
of sensibility are begged to retire before a
brutal but virile spectacle!"
Nobody budged.
How the Crowd Was Thrilled.
Time! It was Brogan and Hardy, also a
tiuo dog fight. Brogan rushed his man
through the ropes and pulled him out and
slammed him up against a bucket Hardy
flopped on his back, leaped to his feet, clung
in a clinch,, tore loose, then drovo a left on
Brogan's jaw, a right on Brogan's oar and
hutted Brogan in the chest Bouncing back,
exhausted, ho lay on his back, and Brogan
hammered methodically on his upturned face
while the spectators Oh-ed!" and bounced
in their scats.
How report those rounds, the business
with buckets and sponges! Brogan sported
p.n enormous purple ohlner suddenly after a
sponging. Hardy nonchalantly pulled out
two teeth and threw them on tho floor you
could hear a tooth drop! Then the thing
recurred which makes tho buds of Beziers,
the matrons of Montpelllcr and collegians of
Cahors say so superior:
'Carpentler? Oh, yc3; but you ought to
havo seen the fight at Ax!"
Hardy had gono flat from a right bander.
Flopping llko a toad, the gifted comedian
was half up and wholly down six times" In
seven seconds (his Idea had been to "make
It ten and take the count" by which ho
calculated he would "win the belt"). Bro
gan,' out ot breith and pallence. folded his
crms,- and the flopping genius had the spot
'.ight to himself.
He rolled over 5n his stomach. IIo leered
up with blood stained features at the plty
Kg ladles who composed two-thirds of the
audience. "Hit film again!" whispered tho
retercc. 'No. the poor young man Is rest
ing!" whimpered tho ladles. And to show
Lo wasn't he sagged to nis haunches; and
-d
v'hlle tho Pollco Commissary starte'd for
Ike ring ho got a final and perfunctory clout
f:om Brogan, on tho job again.
It was Hardy's cuo to do a back .'all. roll,
k.'ck. shiver and lie still, sc thin, just as tho
releree told off the rounds, the Commlstary
ca!!ed out In a loud voice: "That ihe spec
tacle cease! Tho public is summoned to
".!sperso! "
That Is why they did not see Battling
Johnson. Kid Sullivan and Willie Corbctt
yei complained noL And '.hat Is why. when
Brg Jim Johnson with an honest enough
.
GEORGES CAR.PENTIER. ZLncC HIS BRIDE.,
sparring outfit showed at Luchon there was
disappointment at Its tameness. "You
should have seen the fight at Ax!" they said.
Paris, of course, was different
When Tommy Burns, "heavyweight cham
pion of the world." knocked out Bill Squires,
"champion of Australia," and when Sam Mc
Vey, heavyweight champion of California,
knocked out Eon Taylor, champion of Eng
land, tho crowds, from C.000 to 1S.000 re
spectively at Eowling Palace and Hippo
drome, half fashionables and femininity, paid
from 30 down.
McVey was the Black Bison of the Boule
vard. The night ho put to sleep Herbert
Fynnett. the Australian Lemon, the boy
manager, one Klcgln, packed the pro
gramme with world events. Black Kid
Davis, lightweight champion of Europe,
knocked out Jimmy Calne, "champion of
Sioux City": Dick Green, "middleweight
champion of Chicago." knocked out Ben
Scanlon, "champion of Louisiana." and Bill
Styles, "champion of Seven Dials." was
tilled to lull to rest Bill Chester, "middle
V'elght champion of South Africa."
For a moment the Australian Lemon had
1 een a bigger man (in Paris) than Sam
Langford. He had knocked out Scales,
champion of Lambert. Shearing, champion
cf Tooting, and Wilson, champion of Put
ney. Paris owed much to theso pioneers, yet
Paris is fickle. Homage is denied a fighter
'.he minute he loses a battle. Hasn't ho
deceived them? He Is not a champion!
More than ono American boxer knew It
o his sorrow. Walter Stanton was tho
fervent admiration of the Boulevard. In'
turn ho knocked out four "middleweight
champions of England" Dick Bailey. Buitcr
Brown. Jack Costello and Tiger Smith. But
the moment Stanton lost to tho American.
Willie Lewis, he was dropped, even as a
tubject for comment.
When Lewis Was a Lion. .
Willie Lewis In his turn deserved well of
Paris where for a long tlmo he-won every
tpttle he fought a young lion, taking on
much heavier men. And wrote a book.
Then Billy Papke came and murdered him
In thrco rounds. Whence Paris concluded
Willie had deceived them! Papke profited
nothing. Too Impatient, too direct to school
himself In Paris ways, he heard It circu
lated ho was not a champion and hit a little
fellow, a non-pugilist
WTon by rumors of.McVcy's affluence.
Willie Lewis and Joe Jcannett'c had como to
Paris signed up by a Frenchman. McVey
was supposed to havo 300,000 francs In tho
American Express. Jeannette after three
matches beat him; and poor Sam. who had
rrcn ao great in Paris, was a dead 'un.
As tp Jhe 300.000 francs, it Is not certain
that anybody took them home to America.
Not Jeannette who says ho Is not crazy
about Paris. Yet a very great deal of money
was mado over thoso matches.
Fashionable women could, see Jeannette
train in a livery ctablo yard at Neullly on
-icscntation of their ring side tickets: boxoa,
f GO: ring side, ?20. Tho spoiled beauties
looked askance on Joe's honest routine
brushing aside of Marc Gaucher and Wllllo IB
Lewis'. "Knock him out!" ilicy pleaded. IH
(Who? Anybody!) Until Jeannette. torn HH
tetween duties, roughed a trifle for com- IHI
plaisance. Wasn't tho good Marc mad: jH
"Now. hit him. Marc!" said the tactful lB
manager "Joe, throw down your guard!" lH
Tbo French champion sailed in. but instead "'IKI
of admiring the American mulatto's tough- jlJEI
ness, taking railroad spikes on the unguard- lilB
ed face, tho fair creatures argued that tho t'Bi
Frenchman must bo weak! "No iceth
broke! M they sniffed. jH
As the poet says. "Where arc the snows 1
cf a year ago?" IH
Nor Jeannette, nor McVey. nor Langford. N - , Pl
nor Jack Johnson are champions! ' " !.
Paris Knows It Alj xCvM
Paris knows. arls uas seen Everything,
read everything! , 'ff9
When Carpentler. "the premier fist of' '. u' ?B
France," at London in 1913 "put knockout" k M
Pcmbardicr Wells in seventy-three second ?M
after having done It In four rounds at Ghent Bill
"just to sec if he could" he won th
heavyweight championship of Europe.
At that moment he was middleweight Bl
champion of Europe by his knockout of
Jim Sullivan in two rounds at .Monte Carlo ' HM
the year previously.
Ho Is equally (they say) welterweight IH
champion of Europe by his victory (London IE
?11) over Young Josephs, who gavo up In v
the tenth round after having' gono down
nine times. jH
In 1919; It Is claimed, nc accumulated a
fourth championship of Europe. I. c. near
heavyweight, by knocking out Dick Smith '
r.r Paris in nine rounds, (The French mako .
iho distinction of "mi-lourd.") , ,
. And again in J919 (It was almost 1920) V VM
he defended his heavyweight championship WM
cf Europe against ail comers by tho knock- IH
out of Joe Beckett at London in seventy- . II
four seconds. (II0 was six years older. It 1 w HH
Is to be remembered, than when he knocked K
cut Bombardier in seventy-three seconds.) IR
Paris knows; this Is the sort or thing that
counts.
Paris knows ihe history of the ring. Some
of Its most notible battles havo been briefest
Battling Nelson boat William Rossitcr in
two seconds. Dal Hawkins knocked out bH
Martin Fiahertyln four seconds. Terry Mc- , ., lKiM
Govern finished Pedlar Palmer in sixteen Ivui
seconds, nnd Sam Langford (right here In Eslll
Paris!) knocked out Champion P. O. Curran, ' Bnl
advertised as "never knocked down In his " raTld
life." in Just six seconds. BjBl
Now, about Carpentler. V ' IH
lie Is tho idol of Paris, becauso he Is a . . , IH
chcmplon. Ho hasn't deceived Paris. Cham-
pion? Champions! He is tho more idol be- '
cause he is so plural. He has not spilled '
any, so they claim them ail for him. As is '
pointed out by the best authorities. Carpon
tier has made and maintained himself cham-
pions in four different classes on six occa- f
slons! Ho still Is. them, isn't he? You can- '
not take them from him by words. ' A jfl
Also, brevity.