The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-29
EUGENE CRIQUI IS| FALL BY HIMSELF
 AS BATTLE NEARS|

MANHASSET, l.. l., May 27.-ThCse dear, spontaneous. generous Amer jeans, who toiled along the dusty roads in the heat of July two years ago to witness the magnificence of Georges Carpenter, and were inn paled by the slack of their pants on the barbed wire fence as the gen darmes shooed them off the gallant Georges acres
 Did their spontaneity get all wet and is that perhaps the reason why they stay away in such overwhelm- ing millions from the training of another French champion du boxe, Eugene Criqui?
 One is made sad, M'sieu. Young Monsieur Criqui is no less a cham pion of Europe at his weight than Carpenter was at his own displace- ment. Yet no Americans come to be hooked by his barbed wire and Eu- gene is thus deprived of that quaintly humorous spectacle which did so much to keep Georges Carpenter at Boyle's Thirty Acres, whence Georges derived from American generosity the sum of s2o0.0oo plus movie, lit- erary and dramatic rights, minus in come tax, amounting in all. MSieu, to munificent aggregation of francs.
 Of a truth, Msieu. there is no barbed wire on Eugene Criqui's acres As well place barbed wire around an art museum. Nobody goes there.
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 All By Himself
 Monsieur Criqui repairs to his back yard in the afternoon and rearranges the features of his sparTing part ners with no more crowd than a few children from the public school hard by, who tarry with casual curiosity or their way home. and a few lan- guid delivery boys from the Manhas- set small stores idling on their er- rands.
 One day some journalists came out, watched Criqui in moody silence. and sCon slouched back to the suburban train, to write about his silver jaw which isn't. Now and again villagers flivvers jangle to full stop beside Criqui's training camp but one can't be sure whether they're interested in Criqui or have merely stopped to hu- nor some mechanical informity be- heath the hood.
 All alone, among the hollyhocks S and corn flowers which faded into drabness when the magnificent Georges dallied on the garden paths, Criqui has been going through the formulated stunts which boxers call training. He has reduced himself to I-f pouHhS dlihtSt ct NtSh DcloIe tHe fight with Johnny Kilbane for the featherweight championship of the world, and yet no breathless bulletins have scuttled along the press wires Even though Madam Criqui turned her left ankle while romping with her husband about the lawn, and is now barely able to hobble. It is hard to make people take notice of Cri- qui's presence. He is victim of Carpenters training manners. They went to see Georges by thousands He mistook curious interest for per rudely away. And now that another French champion solicits their at tention they recall the brusque signs at the borders of Carpenters lot. ad- vising them to beware of the bool" Criaui In Shape,
 Criqui is all through training now The weight for his fight with the gray-haired featherweight champion next Saturday at the Polo Grounds is 126 pounds at 10 a. m. Eugene must balance himself delicately until Saturday lest he fatten or fade, be- cause 124 Is a nice weight for him.
 Eugene is 30 years old and swarthy, with a bullet-shaped head and an appearance of adventurous eagtrness in the forward cant of his body from the hips as he stands at ease with his arms dangling. There Is no silver plate in his jaw where he was shot at Verdun, he ex- plains, although people have said SO. No; the artificial jaw is composed of the live rib of sheep and it is just as alert to the sensation Of pain as any mans own original jawbone.
 "Eeef I am punch on the jaw, I feel the punch" he admitted. But" he added. Il hope I am not punch on the jaw"