Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-17
SMITH LANDS K. 0; Y IS DISQUALIFIED Georges Carpenter Given White Heavyweight
 Championship.
DECISION UNPOPULAR
Because He Hit Frenchman On Top Of Head After Having Landed Fin. islling Blow, American Is De.
 clared Loser.

London, July 16-Georges Carpen- tier, "white heavyweight champion of the world" This title was handed to, not won, by the son of France to- night in Olympia after "Gunboat" Smith had knocked him out in the last minute of the sixth round.
 A more disgusting and, at the same time, more sensational climax to what proved to be probably the most remarkable contest in many ways that the prize ring has ever seen, could not be imagined.
 "Robber," "fake," "dog," 'quitter," are few of the mildest epithets hurl- ed at Carpenter and Eugene Corri, the referee.
 X Technical Foul.
 Yet Smith undeniably committed a technical foul, hitting Carpenter a glancing blow on the top of the head eafter the latter had been knocked to his knees by straight right to the pit of the stomach. Even so, under every known rule of boxing, it was not Smith, but Carpenter who should have been disqualified as a result of what happened immediately after the foul blow.
 Here is exactly what did happen:
 Smith found the chance for which he had been waiting for five and half rounds, and when the Frenchman rushed him with a straight right to the face, "Gunboat" shot out straight right and caught the oncom- ing Frenchman squarely in the pit of the stomach. Carpenter did not fall down. he seemed simply to shrink into shapeless mass on the floor. Actually the blow doubled him up and he fell forward to his knees with both hands pressed to his stom- ach.
 Smith, not realizing that Carpenter was actually knocked out not seeing that he was even off his feet Car pentier had been using the crouch all through the fight, his head being almost level with Smiths knees) in stinctively tried to land a finishing blow-a right overland swing. It missed the webbing Frenchman's left ear and grazed the top of his head.
 Referee Corri instantly Jumped in and motioned Smith away.
 Knocks Smith to knees.
 It was anybody's fight for the first three rounds. In the fourth, however, the American contingent got a terrific surprise when Smith suddenly drop ped to his knees like a log after whirlwind mixup. The Frenchman finally had succeeded in landing that right square on the point of the jaw. At the count of nine Smith, undenia- bly, groggy was on his feet but the bell intervened
 Gunboat came back strong in the fifth. The Frenchman, still wary and fighting carefully, could not gain an tech or follow the advantage of the knockdown he had given.
 Then came the sixth with Smith full of fight, apparently having found him. self. Only the unintentional foul blow saved Carpenter from being counted out.
 Considering the tremendous amount of money, more than $75,00o, spent by the crowd to witness this contest of the century," the abrupt ending was about as unsatisfactory as could be conceived.
 The bookmakers were hit very hard, all of them laying even money on the American at the ringside.
 Youngest Champion.
 Crapentier was born at Lena, France, on Jan. 12, 1894. Less than