In Vienna

A scheduled 20-round fight in Vienna between handsome Georges Carpentier, French heavyweight pugilist, and Arthur Townley, British light heavyweight champ, proved to be a dull, short, sharp affair.

Viennese, who were expecting to see a good grade match, were bitterly disappointed. But at the sight of Georges wreathed in victorious smiles, the usual hero-worship set in and all sense of gloom was rapidly dissipated.

After the gong, Carpentier closed with his opponent; there was some fierce pumelling in which Townley suffered. Just before the end of the round Townley gave Carpentier the opening for which he had been waiting. Like a meteor in the night, the Frenchman's right shot out to the Englishman's jaw and the gong left him prone.

The second round was short. Townley seemed groggy. Carpentier got in another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then-- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said "No."

Georges Carpentier, with his famed manager, null Deschamps, prepared to leave France for Richmond City, Ind. There he will meet Tommy Gibbons, who stayed 15 rounds with Champion Dempsey last July at Shelby, Montana.