The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-27
COURAGE ONE
 FRENCHMAN|S
 CHIEF ASSETS
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, June 27. - Georges Carpenter, challenger of Jack Demp- sey, is one of the most unusual box CTS who ever competed for the heavy weight championship. In tempera- ment and intelligence, there has been none like him among aspirants for heavyweight honors. He will be out weighed by Dempsey when they clash. Other physical measurements may also appear to be to the disad vantage of the Frenchman but the essential item of courage will not be included in these shortcomings. Carpenter, born in the coal mining district of Lens, France, fought as a youngster of 12 years and progressed steadily through the various weight classes, meeting the best boxers of France, England and America until he now stands near the pinnacle in pugilistic sport.
 A survey of the opponents Carpen- tier has met in the ring and sketches of several battles in which he re- vived from a count of nine to out point or knock out his rivals in sub sequent rounds convinces one of his ring courage. He has fought among others Joe Jeannette, Frank Klaus,
 Billy Papke when he was only IS 1 ho6 Gunboat Smith. Some of them he met when a youth in his late teens His fight with Frank Klaus and Billy Papke when he was only IS are declared to have been the most grilling in his career. In victory or defeat throughout his ring campaign, Carpenter has been guided by Fran cis Descamps toward the heavy weight championship goal which he will endeavor to reach at Boyles Thirty Acres in Jersey City on July ?. The list of opponents Carpenter has met is more impressive than that of Jack Dempsey's rivals. In ring experience, Carpenter is by far the older.
 T The first battle with Bombadier Wells at -Ghent is declared to have been one of the most impressive ex- hibitions of courage by the young Frenchman, who was outweighed many pounds. He took the count of nine in the first round, to come
 back and knock out his opponent in the fourth. Before they met the sec ond time, he predicted Wells might last one round but the Englishman
 was knocked out in less than one
 minute .;",
 Harry Lewis, in the fourth round
 of a bout, broke two bones in his
 right hand, hitting Carpenter on the
 cheek bone with smash that cut
 a deep gash under the eye. Carpen-
 tier came back to outpoint Lewis in
 20 rounds. When he lost 15-round . decision to Joe Jeanette, Carpen.
 tier was sent to the mat two or | three times but refused to stay and
 dropped the negro twice for a count
 of nine.
 But this anomaly of the boxing Il game has done his most important Il fighting outside the ropes The cock | pit of an army combat plane has | seen his most thrilling engagements II and greatest demonstration of cour Il age. Cited for heroism several times I in the World war, Carpenter wears Il the Croix de Guerre and the Military Il Medal, of all decorations, the most Il prized by the French soldier.
 II Comrades of Carpenter relate how II they had watched him thousands oi Il feet in the air attacking an enemy H or sweeping low over Boche camp H or airdrome while German anti II aircraft guns tried to make a sieve II of his plane. Often, they say, they Il mournfully uttered good-byes to the II youth, only to see him a few min Il utes later climbing out of the shiI il wearing the smile that spectators