, 1921-06-30

tial boxer He attempted. one DAY
II punish the youth. using boxing
gloves rather than the American
"swstch.' In the midst of the
scheduled punishment Desramps
relates that Georges sid.stepp"d
with agility and pouf,-the lights
suddenly went out on me"
From hat moment, Georges was
a boyer. DeScalnps, somewhat of a
fighter himself. tool the youth into
his gymnasium to rain him. He
fought three fOur-rOund battles in
that first ear and his total ring
earnings amounted to $lS4. He will
receive that much for ach two sec
Onds of his bout with Dempsev.
provided the match goes the sched-
uled IL rounds.
Since that time, Carpenter :aS
climbed steadily and slowly. some
times he has stepped but the pro
gress has been consistently forward
and upward. He gained his fist
knockout in 1905 when, as a ban
tamweight. he stopped Moinereau in
three rounds. The same rear, he de-
feated Salmon, one Of England's
cleverest little men, in Is rounds.
A short time later he knocked out
in n round Wetinck a lad who had
almost held him even two years be-
fore.
1t was in 1909 hat Carpenter de-
feated Charlie Ledoux. famous
French bantamweight and the craft
lest boxer that the lad had met up
to hat 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 American
opponent, Frank Loughrey, in May,
1911. winning a decision. Meeting
the best Of American boxers. includ-
Ing Harry Lewis. a well known
m~iddleweiGht. and Dixie Kid, by
whom he was knocked out in five
rounds, he nevertheless developed
steadily, gaining in weight strength
and cleverness until he defeated Jim
Sullivan for the middleweight cham
pionship of Europe.
Two defeats at the hands of the
Americans Billy Papke and Frank
Klaus, marked his 1912 record.
Papke stopped Carpenter in II
rounds and Frank Klaus beat him
On a foul when the nimble-brained
Descamps clambered into the ring to
save his protege from a knockout.
The W bouts with Bombardier
Wells, both of which the Frenchman
won by knockouts. featured his 1913
battles. Carpenter showing great
gameness in his first fight with
Wells when he was knocked down
for the count OF nine in the first
round but came back to win in the
fourth. The second Wells battle
was a Carpenter victory in one
round. In the same yea he knock
ed out Cyclone Smith. Bandsman
Rice and George Gunther.
Carpenter lost no ground in + c
eyes of the ring followers when de-
feated by Joe Jeanette the Ameri-
can negro heavyweight early in 1914.
, 1t was to his credit that he twice
r sent the negro to h mat for couDs-
of nine.
| But the war was close at<Sn1
: his six round victory oyyr 1unhoa
Smith on a foul waS~his oaly i'm
p%ortant basole h"fore The youn,
t F~renchman Sss as,yged boxing xlove
n Tor an P'.5lane nd machine gun
hxhih'l ; us be- nd the liLos com
: posea us emit boxing '!vities un
Ill i5lis vie shortly after beins
diSch' sed firm the service. HI
tnoc! 4 oGl uIck Smith in Paris
Since LhHt ELir, his battle with Jot
l Beckett of England. which he won il
a round and that in which he knock,
ed out Battling Levinsky in fOul
rounds at Jersey City, n. J. last sum
mer. have been his only contests OF
importance. The Levinsky fight is
tn, only one in which Americans
have seen Carpenter in formal ac-
ton on this side of the water. 1t
was a fiasco so far as a champion
ship test is concerned. The French
man will climb through the ropes on
July'2 an unknown quantity. so far
as the first-hand information of
American boxing fans is concerned.