New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-15
Gorgeous Georges Is Ten
dsred Magnificent Ova, |
tioi1 on His Departure
By lack ILawYcnce

| With the Carpenter smile still
Breaking widsf and radiant, as it did
within a few seconds after Referee
Hurry Ertle's. arnn had swung him out
on July 2 as q contender for the heavy
weight chafhrion's hip crown, gorgeous
GeorRss, fa1oed hero Of France, de-
parted these shores yesterday att noon
more as a magnificent cenquefor than
anything else that can be described.
| As La Savoie,2 n historic French
stream, with the deep blasts of her
whistles drowning' every other sound,
there was q demonstration on Pier
81, North River, which, according to
the Oldest chip news reporters, had
r.eveT been equaled
| The hundreds Of persons on the pier
rushed to the bulkhcad iutting out in
| t, the river and waved the champion Of
Europe q mad farewcll prosaic ferry
beats awoke' to the occasion and opened
dusty throats in squealing salute,
while cvon stodgy old towboats, en-
| gagged in Guiding long strings Of car
f.o&ts and barges UP and down the
river. added q discordant, but en-
thusiastic note to the bon voyage
chorus
| V0tetliHE us great demonstration,
unplanffed and spontaneous for the
most part, oise wondered what would
have happeped if Georges Carpenter
had won instead of lost. The farewell
could hardly have been more reel
| Georges apparently did not expect
the reception that greeted him at the
pier. It started when his autom obile
crossed Tenth Avenue and continued
until the French liner moved out on her
voyage to France.
Neither Carpenter nor M. Francois
, Deschafnps. his manager, would say
anything about the future beyond the
quite obvious fact that they were going
to France unless the ship foundered.
and they said they might make it even
at that
| Charley Ledoux, bantamweig1t cham
plon of France, Was a member of the
Carpenter party, and he WIS IS cheer
ful as possible under the circumstances
ne wore an unhappy grin and q purple
left eye, both somewhat significant of
his recent meeting with Joe Burman at
the Bronx Boxing Drome
La Savoic and all other French and
British steamers tied uu along the
Chelsea piers were dressed in honor of
Bastile Day. July ID, which gave an en-
tirely coincidental but gay touch to the
French fighters departure.
The last word of Manager Deschar Us
before stepping aboard La Savoie was
that Carpenter would be back here
within four weeks to start training for
his battle at Boyle's Thirty Acres on
October IL. While Deschamps would
not say who Carpenters opponent
would be on this occasion he would not
deny that Tom Gibbons was the man.
The International Sporting Club an
nounced last night that the fight sched-
u.ed to be held under its auspices at
EBbets Field on July IS between Joe
| Lynch, bantamweight champion, and
Pete Herman would occur as an
nounced whether or not the New York
State Boxing Commission grants the
club at license.
If the International is unable to
secure a license before this date the
bout will be held under the Ebbets-
McKeever license, according to TEX
@Rourke, matchmaker Of the organi-
alton.
frankie Engle, reputed to be the
fastest featherweight the we'll known
city of Detroit has turned out in many
Year, will meet Young Tiger, an am
bilious youth of Jersey, in the star