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O’Dowd Wants to u:1See Ring ActionU£ltwlt;whtU'Si€; Back in civilian clothes again, at- tes 'ter months of service overseas,!Mike O’Dowd, middleweight boxing! ! ;champion of the world, savs hejbm ; hopes to be ready to defend his lau-i tod ag rels by .July 4, after visiting for a! is i cn while with his mother, who is sickiabl eyt her home in St. Paul. jglo' While O'Dowd has heard nothing Ke direct from Tex Rickard or Ad 1 ‘- Thatcher, the Toledo matchmaker, 5ar ' is expected that the soldier- in • champion will be asked to meetiboi iC_some worthy opponent at Toledo aibet ,ssiday or two before Jack Dempsey!iand Jess Willard settle their differ-! ^Sences. O’Dowd is perfectly willing1 (B}' to sign up tor such an encounter and1 Jot5 in is not a Par.tieular as to the op-i *j • ponenL For that matter O'Dowd: \I,'; 5ays that he would rather it would',,, .be Mike Gibbons or Soldier Bart-I p field than any other. j T:a- O’Dowd had several scraps ou theiWa other side, but never was extended,1 -Ton'even when he entered the light!J- -heavyweight class in the Ring’s1, j ot,tourney. He was ou the trail of. I ■'Georges Carpentier most of the time.! v rjp but the French idol never could be TheSiS convinced that it was worth while v,d- putting on his ring togs. O'Dowd is5 ti confident that had Carpentier step-! v or pod into the ring the Frenchman.Je* as would have been eliminated there1 -and then. ! *if “Carpentier is far from being a v M heavyweight. possibility.*1 says a.3d O’Dowd. -'I saw the French fighter Bor or several times, but never in ring! ap. costume, so can not say as to his! * th condition. He seemed too slim to be!•se pitted against Dempsey or Wil- c- * Ir. lard or the other big men of the' I;ring. Carpentier was not certain if nv he ever would box again profes-==jc-.sionally. He says that he has been:d- so interested in war work that he!:tv has had not time for any other!,e’s thoughts. jar. “I did not like the complexion of j ell Carpentier. He was very pale and:?s. his eyes glowed. Be looks more! ip-djke an opera singer than a boxer.; ice I would like nothing better than to!?st have Id rounds witli him.”ng
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 11, 1919
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