A few more articles from Edgren mentioning Dempsey, Willard, Carpentier, Greb and others

Los Angeles Herald, Number 221, 16 July 1921

Dempsey Has Tough Time Finding Opponents

GIBBONS FAILS TO SHOW REAL CLASS, CLAIM

Tommy’s Record Good, but Men He Fought Were Second-Raters, Edgren

By ROBERT EDGREN

Jack Dempsey is going to have a hard time to find an opponent In the next few months. At the best, he’ll have to wait until some other heavyweight shows enough ability to guarantee an interesting match. No such man is in sight now. , Willard? There isn’t a chance in the world that the public would take a Dempsey-Wlllard match seriously unless Willard goes out first and beats a couple of good men. Nobody wants to see Willard beaten in a round as he was at Toledo. He'll have to fight his way back. Willard at his best was a formidable heavyweight. but nobody knows whether or not Willard has anything left after two years or more of laying off.

BEAT HIM TWICE

Brennan? Dempsey has knocked him out twice. It's true that last time he gave Dempsey a hard fight. But if he really had Dempsey in serious trouble in the early rounds and Dempsey revived and hammered him down, there’s less chance of an even fight next time. Probably he wouldn't get to Dempsey with the first hard punch again and it would be what Jack calls “short and sweet.”

Martin? Good man and coming fast, but not ready yet.

Fulton ?’" Fred js a good plasterer but not in the ring. He could whip any man in the world if the other fellow didn’t hit back. Last time Dempsey finished him in 14 3-5 seconds. Not much nourishment in that for the Spectators.

Greb? A corking fellow at his own weight, but a little smaller than Carpentier

GIBBONS GOOD

Gibbons? Very good. Has established a long record of quick knockouts. But look over the list, his victims are in the sparring partner class compared to Dempsey, If Tom beat 'Carpentier or Brennan convincingly, he might be possible.

Carpentier? Well, Georges doesn’t claim any right to another match. He is satisfied that Dempsey Is beyond him.

Or If he has a feeling that he could heat Dempsey in another match his sense of sportsmanship won’t let him say so. He says only: I have no excuse to offer for being defeated I did my best. Dempsey is a much better boxer than I thought, and he was too strong for me. I was beaten by a better man” Carpentier is a sportsman through and through. At a dinner Tuesday night after the fight he stood up and proposed a toast: | “To Jack Dempsey, the best fighter I ever met, who will be champion for a long time.”




Los Angeles Herald, Number 263, 3 September 1921 —

Jess Best Prospect For Dempsey, Says Edgren

WILLARD MIGHT PUT UP GREAT RETURN GO

former Title Holder Only Fellow , Able to Make Champ Step, Claim of Expert

By ROBERT EDGREN

Tex Rickard declares that if Jess Willard proves that he is in earnest about a return bout with Jack Dempsey he, Rickard, will put on the match. Rickard would like to have Jess beat a couple of good heavyweights first. If Willard is in shape he should have no trouble in qualifying for a return match in this way, and he will have to do it if he is to have public support. Rickard says he was sorry for Dempsey before the fight at Toledo, as he thought Jack didn’t have a chance. So was Willard.

COY ABOUT AGE

’Willard Is a big. good-natured fellow and not by nature Anything like Dempsey, as a fighting man. He is coy about his age, but when he arrived in New York as a novice be surely looked like a big overgrown kid. He may not be old enough to worry about the New York boxing commission’s new' rule Oslerizing all boxers over 38 years of age.

- Age limit or no age limit —Willard looks like the only young bucko around these parts who can make Dempsey take notice. Dempsey admits that Willard's strength, even after half a dozen knockdowns at Toledo, was enough to give him a lot of trouble —that he never found any other man who could assimilate punching until Jack was too weary to lift his arms —that Willard hit him hard enough when Jess was dazed and all but licked to make him wonder what might have happened if the punch had come early in the fight.

ISNT A DODGER

Dempsey isn’t a dodger. He'll meet any man Kearns picks, and never a word or a question. But it's significant that he doesn’t show any curiosity about Willard’s plans. The picture of that great bulk—possibly hardened by a couple of years work on the farm—isn't a thing to make even Dempsey smile. Perhaps its pride that makes Willard demand a return match with Dempsey without any other bouts in between. Willard may not understand that his showing at Toledo will prevent any public confidence in his ability to give Dempsey a fight. He can get public confidence only by beating some other good man. Bill Brennan, for instance. That bout ought not to be hard to take.