The Detroit times., 1914-12-21
French Champion Writes of Ex-
periences at Front as Gen.
erals Chauffeur
HEAVIER, BUT STILL
IN CONDITION TO FIGHT
Anxious To Return To Ring
Says Kaiser Can't Go Many
More Rounds
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.

Even athletes OF little international
reputation have become persons OF
great interest TO the American read
ers OF sport news since they have de-
serted the ring, gridiron and track TO
take up arms in the war into which
nearly all Europe has been plunged.
Word. of the experiences and fate or
those athletes who were previously
well known TO Yankee followers OF
sport has been even more anXiously
awaited, and the following letter from
Georges Carpenter should prove or
great interest.
France Is proud OF her greatest pu.
gilis.-soldier. who at present is as
signed to the aviation corps, and is
acting as chauffeur for one OF the gen
erals at the front. The English are
watching the big fighter as closely as
his own countrymen, and II WAS in
London periodical, Answers. that the
Following letter was first made public.
Il have not performed any great
deeds yet" begins Carpenter Per
haps you have heard that captured
q German dog. And UP to date per
haps that is my biggest feat. But the
war Is young. and there Will be, per-
haps, time for me 10 do something
bigger, something really big.
Il drive an otncer when and where
am told. fast car have. so fast
how like to whiz along.-that can
not say that have taken any great
risks. My life has been made up or
series of dashes TO and from the
front.
when come to think OF all by my
self | am conscious OF a big splash OF
danger, but when a fellow is strong
and In condition, as ami was new
er in better shape. not even after one
OF my most profitable stays at Mani
tot, where / trained for my fights
with young Bombadier, and for all
other combats-nothing matters. How
/ would glory to jump into the ring
now against anybody!
IL and as soon as this war is over
Gtinboat Smith or any other man
wants TO meet me, l shall be ready
and willing. And. | say, l am getting
bigger, But l wanted to tell some
thing about the change this war has
brought about in my life. | do not
earn thousands in night now few
sous a week, that's all. But money
bahi--until this business is over
what's the use OF it? What is the
greatest change | feel? II is this: 4
have discovered that without any
trouble at all j can roC Oh il with any
body and that no man TX ne be mt
need want Injuries, or any pamper-
ing, though | am free to confess that
had | not always felt that the life
OF professional boxer, II 1t IS TO be
successful, must cut out all luxS,ries
and pampering. I should have sue
cumbed to a aforementioned life
long ago.
my heart Is set on being the cham
pion OF the world want 10 beat
them all, never mind their color, and
/ believe / shall do this. IL am spar
ed. have not forgotten boxing
even I'm these terribly altered times.
Whenever / have the opportunity l
do all the shadow boxing | can, and
in NV own mind and at my exercises
i am often fighting the Bombardier
wellses and the others all over again,
90 that when Germany has been pun
meled and has bad something like
the clip on the jaw that many or my
opponents have had and knocked out
for the full 10 seconds. | shall be
ready to take the ring against all
corners at a moments notice. SO to
speak"
Carpenter has little fear that the
allies will win the present war. of
Germany, he writes;
Their knees are sagging; they
have begun to reel; they may have
the instinct that helps them to con-
tinue to fight, but few more rounds
only can they CO. and then the knock
out; the seconds will be licked on
and Germany will be carried TO her
corner. And she viii never fight
again."
STILL DICKERING ON