The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-04-02
Carpenters
Lies Story
CHAPTER TWO.
~ JACK NElock.

Carpenter met Gunboat Smith in Lon
don in 1914 and won, from the Cailfor-
MAN on a foul in the sixth round re-
corded that Carpenter mad an the s.G pss-
ner' when the bout came to sudden
end. And 1t may be well to paste
note in your hat to the effect that
when he boxed the great Jeanette-a
really wonderful, massive ana poWeriuI
boxer-he was learning the fine points
of the game in the hard school OF ex-
perience. That Carpenter profited by
his hard learned experience ne mas
proved conclusively by coming back to
the ring a more brilliant ana nard Ier,
London after meeting Smith in 1914 IN
answer to the call Of his country, and
spent more than four years IN the
French army.
Carpenter today and Carpenter five
years ago are just about as far re-
moved from one another as the fresh
man football player is removed from
The seasoned moleskin gladiator who Is
earning his last college letter as
member of the varsity eleven.
Fortunately, Carpenter came through
the war without manning WOUNDS. he
came out of the army enjoying better
health than he had ever enjoyed De-
fore, and although he did not have an
opportunity to put many hard fistic
battles under his belt during the four
years of strife, he managed to Keep
himself in prime condition and be did
quote lot of boxing, all the while
working to improve his style.
Here, then, Is the sort Of a chaheng-
er who has come to our fair country
to seek battle with the great Dempsey.
Lens a Proud Town.
Lens, a little coal mining town in
grip of the German army throughout
the world war, is the proudest town
of the old continent. 49,
1t was in Lens, on Jan. ~, 1894, that
Georges Carpenter first saw the light
they are naming babies, streets and
bridges after the athletic son of poor
coal miner who has won popularity
throughout the fistic world.
Carpenters parents were OF good ola
French stock, but they were :, poor,
struggling folk. They found it/1mpos-
sible to give young Georges an AGA
demic education, and at the age or II
he was compelled to leave school ana
go to work In the coal mines and col
lleries. Many years later Georges be-
came a coal baron. His earnings were
invested in mines around his home
town. When the German hordes cross
ed the Rhine in 1914 and flooded the
rich mining district of Northern France
he owned, nearly half a million. francs.
From early boyhood Carpenter was
athletically inclined. Little wonder,
then. that he found working under
of being pit boy and he tired also
of work in the collieries But what
was he to do? His parents needed his
weekly earnings. Poor Georges was
greatly discouraged.
One day travelling fair came to
Lens. One of the attractions was a
boxing exhibition between two English
professionals who possessed a very fair
knowledge of the science of the ring
game. Georges attended the fair, but
he saw nothing but the boxing show
1t was here that M. Descamps, then
a professor of boxing with a gymnasium
in Lens, first laid eyes on Carpenter.
He saw the rapt expression In the
youngsters face as he watched the two
Englshmen perform in the ring. He saw
boxer with all his might, and he
sought Georges out
Georges Enthusiastic.
when Deseamps invited him to his
gymnasium and offered to give him
boxing lessons. But how about his
, parents? M. Descamps determined to
persuade them to permit Georges to
take up boxing as profession--this
lad had natural inclnatione] toward
boxing and assumed the attitude of a
boxer as though TO the manner born,
even before he had learned the rudi-
mentS of the game. Monsieur and
Madame Carpenter listened quietly to
M. Descamps proposition When he had
finished, after depicting fantastic pic
lures of what would be the future OF
young Carpenter as a professional box
er, they consented to permit the lad
sion, but only after Descamps had
promtsad to contribute five francs a
week TO the Carpenter pocketbook in
lieu of the wages Georges would lose
by quitting the mines.
SO Georges was TO learn boxing. No
more labor in the somber mines He
was delighted. The dream that had
come to him as he sat rapturously
watching the English boxers at the fair
had come true at last. 1t was wonder
full.
Descamps spent much time instruct
ing his youthful protege. He carried
him along rapidly, yet skillfully, and
within a little less than year he en-
tered the ring for his first public box
ing exhibition as a bantamwetght. Pre-
vious to his entry as a boxer in public
Georges had demonstrated, rather pain
fully to Descamps, that he possessed
punch. Descamps had determined TO
give young Georges hiding with the
pade, and then tell him afterward why
he had done so. They put on the
gloves. When time was called Des-
camps went after his young pupil with
rush. He swung pretty hard, Twen-
ty seconds later he opened his eyes.
lie was fiat on his back on the floor.
Young Georges had side stepped his
swing and crossed with a right. The
professor was a bit embarrassed, but
his joy at discovering that Carpenter
possessed a soporific punch and the
cleverness to drop his instructor over
Swallowed his feeling of humiliation.
Go Be Continued.)
Jimmy Humphries exDncts IN deVota