The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-02

Guerre, reads: Sept. 20, he did not hesitate to fly during misty weather and rain less than 200 yards above enemy lines. He has given proof in many circumstances of sang froid never returning until his mission was accomplished often with his ma. chine riddled with bullets and shell splinters"
 On Nov. ., 1916, Carpenter re. ceived the Medaille Miltaire for heroic action. In December, 1916. he was forced to quit the front be. cause of illness and never returned in May, 1917, being declared physical. ly unfit to continue as pilot He was detached from aviation and de. tailed as army physical instructor near Paris. Six months after the armistice, he was transferred back to the aviation and demobilized. Carpenters courteous demeanor and evident culture, unusual in boxer. have created the impression in America that he is the son of wealthy parents. This is not so.
 The son of miner, Carpenter was born in Lens, the coalmining center of France on Jan. 12, 1894 He started work as an office boy in brewery. The ring called at an early age, however, and when only 14, he took up boxing, then being populariZed in France by the visits of Kid" Mccoy and other American fighters. At the same time, he was dancing and singing in the. cafes and restaurants of his native Lens. with Francois Descamps, who has ever since been his companion, guardian and manager. It was Descamps who discovered in Carpenter the requis- ites of a pOteQtial boxer. He at tempted. one day. to punish the youth, using boxing gloves rather than the American "switch" In the midst of the scheduled punishment" Descamps relates that Georges side stepped with agility and pouf! the lights suddenly went out on me"
 From that moment, Georges was boxer. Dc9camps. somewhat of a fighter himself, took the youth into his gymnasium to train him. He fought three rour-rouud battles in that first year and his total ring earnings amounted to $ISi He will receive that much for each two soc. onds of his bout with Dempsey, pro, vided the match goes the scheduled 12 rounds
 Since that time. Carpenter has climber steadily and slowly. Some times, he has slipped but the prog rcss has been consistently forward and upward. He gained his first knockout in 1908 when. as ban tamweight, he stopped Moinereau in three rounds. The same year, he defeated Salmon, one of England's clevcrest little men, in one round. A short time. later. he knocked out ia one round Wetinck. a lad who had almost held him even two years before.
 It was in 1909 that Carpenter de- feated Charlie Ledoux, famous French bantamweight and the craft jest boxer that the lad had met up to that time More fame followed when he defeated Paul Til in 10 rounds. but soon after Georges was knocked out by Gloria in six rounds.
 Carpenter met his first Amer icau opponent, Frank Loughrey, in May. 1911, winning a decision. Meeting the best of American boxers, including Harry Lewis. a well-known middle weight, and Dixie Kid, by whom he was knocked out in five rounds, he nevertheless developed steadily. gain ing in weight, strength and clever ness until he defeated Jim Sullivan for the middleweight championship of Europe.
 Two defeats at the hands of the American Billy Papke and Frank Klaus, marked his 1912 record. Pap. ke stopped Carpenter in F rounds and Frank Klaus beat him on a foul when the nimble. .brained Des- camps clambercd into the ring to save his protege from a knockout.
 The two bouts with Bombardier Wells, both of which the French men won by knockouts, featured his 1913 battles. Carpenter showed great gameness in his first fight with Wells when he was knocked down for the count of nine in the first