The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15

France alone several score of the pro- fessionaI boxers are serving with the army the most i1Iustrfol1s example
 being Georges Carp entier. The re- cent ring victories of. the French l1aiddleweight over both Bonbardier Wells and Gunboat Smith caused European critics to predict worlds championship honors for Carpentier. Should he be killed or injured i'm ac-s ton his loss would be keen1y felt in pugflstic circles for even the English
 ring authorities predict a promising
 career for him as scan be seen from
 the following extract from a review of his bout with Smith:
 Though the result of the boxing contest between Carpentier and Gun
 boat Smith was very unsatisfactory
 from one point of view, there is very continued Carpenter would either
 have won easily on points or would
 have finished his man before the
 tenth round. The F,renchrnan had
 science, pace, and precision, and all
 of them had been improved since he
 last appeared. With qualities such
 as these, he was easily able to deal
 with d man whose enfef assets were strength and endurance. The rapIer
 wi nearly always win against the
 broadsword. We shall always look
 forward to seeing Carpenter in the Ting again. His fierce vitality, his
 swift intelligence, his flaming cour- age, present combination of some or the finest qualities, which boxing has ever evolved in it's best expon-
 ents.
 1 The Davis cup emblepnatfc of the worlds team tennis championship.
 the final matches for which are be-
 ing played. at Forest Hills Long
 Island. today. was placed in competf-
 ton fifteen years ago the donor be- Ing Dwight Davis, of St. Louis
 Mo. This was in 300. but the idea of originating an internati6naI com
 petition in this sport was conceived
 three years previously, by Dr.l anes
 Dwight, then president of the United State Lawn Tennis Association, and
 among the leading opponents of ten-
 his in the early days Of the game irl this country.
 In 1907, Dr. Dwight in a letter to l his friend MT. Herbert Chipp in Eng this proved to be the basis of a cor respondence fo1lQwed by negotiatfons
 between British and American lawn tennis associations which, although
 disrupted for a long time owing to
 the outbreak of the Spanish-Amerf- can war, cuITninated in match be- tween the British Isles a.Ead American Eteams at the esLongwood Cricket Clubs grounds. Boston,, August B g. and O. go Q. which was won by the Arneri- Icans, M. D. Whitman, Dwight F. Davis and HoIcombe Ward, the Bri- tish players being A. W Gore IF.
 Roper Barrett and B. D. Black. Eng land was unable to send a team here the following year but they did so in 1903. however, the Doherty brothers and Harold $. Mahony captured the trophy and took it to England viii, them and there it remained until 1907 when 1t was won by the Aus tralaSian team who retained it until only to relinquish the bowl the the custod~ of the Americans a year ago. 1 With the open contest decided fTe I goning blue ribbon. will attract the l attention of every player of note in the country. This year the United States Golf Association has selected 1 the links of the Ekwanok Country Club Manchester, Vt, from August # 1 to September 5, for the twentieth an nuaI competition for the araate,Ir
 honor. which Jerome D. Travis. of 1 the Upper Montclair, N. J.. the pres ent holder. has won three times Al 1 though the champion has not taken 1 part in any match or tournamenf i since his return from his recent visit as guest of British hof1ors on Inc l other side of the Atlantic Travis has I been keeping in close touch with the game. The entries for the event will ] not close until a week from Monday. i Last year two foreign entrants were l among those who carded for the nas i tionaI contest at Garden City. but
 this year for obvious reasons inc l field will be entirely American in 1 it's make up.
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