JOE SAYS GEORGES RAN FOOTRACE OF CENTURY BOUT
GIBBONS SHOULD HAVE PLASTERED THE FRENCHMAN FOR COUNT WILLIAMS OPINES
BY
Joe Williams
Georges Carpentier's first money grabbing expedition in this country was entitled "The Battle of the Century".
His last one-and it certainly ought to be his last-will go down in the carefully edited records as "The Footrace of the Century."
From start to finish the Frenchman took it on the run in his little fistic pleasantry with Tommy Gibbons at Michigan City, pausing only at discreet and sagely spaced intervals to swing a wild, impotent hand in the general direction of the St. Paul Irishman.
It was the most complete and painstaking retreat in the history of pugilism...
Carpentier did absolutely nothing to earn his $75,000 gurantee except pose gracefully for the photographers and flop dramtically on what he said was a turned ankle in the ninth round.
"I would have knocked out Gibbons if my ankle hadn't collapsed," Carpentier told newspaper men after the fight.
This crack merits a low, rumbling guffaw.
-Joe Williams . Beloit Daily News. June 5, 1924
Joe Williams invective to the contrary, the fight went in the books as a ten round no decision. And least we forget the Champion Dempsey had been unable to dispose of the very tough and skilled Mr. Gibbons the previous July.
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