Show FRENCHMAN HM H FOUGHT lOlL p BATTLES ATTlE Criqui Has Been p for Past Fifteen Years Year Was War Hero By Ed Van Every Eugene featherweight cl ch plon pion of Europe Is a a. real fighting fighting- ho nun hes never done anything else elpe fight In the fourteen or fifteen since his Ms schoolboy days he be ha has In close to ring battles about half of which appear in itt French record books lIe He hait has ha Q In it the tho trenches against the ene coot his country and Rod ho has hall fou fought ht d dIt It was on March arch 14 U 1915 close cloe t sector ector that he ht sustained a wound voun 1 and his life was vas deep dep of nf many times before he was disc g m the hospital almost two two In Ia lator t J Maybe th the tory etory of ot his hili victor victory the Orini Reaper wilt will help belp in U Ut I allot 0 of a r mental picture of ot Ii g c incidentally a different Ion sion or of his war experience e will Ill be b bethan t f than the Vine one ne commonly told on onside side elde It was while on lien sentry try dot dut dangerous post to which he be VI t In his second year of ot the that ho sustained the wound tha spelled the cn end of ot his career I If not his span of ot life lite Ai As been tod told It was a 0 terrible woundS wound A bullet struck him beneath th corner of ot hl his mouth ripped awa awe number of ot teeth the Jav and passed pasted out through the side o 0 neck all but hut piercing the Jugular A remarkable operation was nece to tco build up the shot away portio his face taco and Jaw no sliver silver plat plate been n used e as sa r reported e but t a ec the rf rib bone o of fo a ahee sheep h was a g gInto Into the Interior of ot his mouth N wears wear a top end bottom half halt plate seventeen n e teeth t which h hg t fere a bout o substituting ur ln sp special clat ni breakable plates His Jaw it is l. now withstands the h hardest mas smashes s sUM UM E FIFTEEN YEARS lEARS iriqui was born In Paris Augus 1893 where his father tather was prop propof of a wine cellar Of t his l m j ft am his s mother still i ilves a and he noxy ports her everything g his parents a o ova having baying tl been swept ah away f World war var Although his nam I appears In the French Trench boxing boxing- re ret reM books boos in 1910 he actually started t fig gJ I Ing log a a. year vear or so earlier when Geon Carpentier was commencing to 1 c g. Continued on page e 3 3 J AN HAS Continued from page 2 France Trance some pugilistic prominence It was wall the success of or Carpentier that at attracted attracted attracted at- at Criqui to the idea of or 11 live live- c- c He IIa showed speed and promises of boxing science but no punch lie He wa was a a. few times but was as generally genera returned winner until one men month before the breaking out of or tho war he was waa stopped technically for tor the first time resigning BI IU they term ItIn it itIn itin In England to Charley Chancy Ledoux In the twelfth round While he has sever never act actually anT taken the count has foiled to go so the route on two occasions This This' was wall In 1919 wren en 4 In a contest with Tommy Noble the English featherweight champion ho hI was forced to stop In the middle of or the tenth round when a a. low blow partially paralyzed a a. Ie leg cord In that same year against Pal Ial Moore ot or Memphis ho re refused refused refused re- re fused to continue after Iter a a. claim of foul was nas not allowed In the fourteenth round Later on he lie fought a a. twenty-round twenty draw with Noble Aside Allide from these setbacks has hasa a brilliant record having vanquished the best men in Europe in his class and on a a. trip to Australia he scored six elc h knockouts In seven bouts Last I-ast year ear ho did cUd some of hi his hili best fighting stopping stop stop- ping plug his old rival Ledoux in one round and also knocking out Arthur and Billy Hat Mathews he we En English lIsh claimants of the European title in the tho featherweight featherweight featherweight feather feather- weight division And now ho is hero ready to fight Johnny for tho the worlds world's championship WILL TIGHT FlOUT YO ANYONE r rIf INCLUDING DING DUNDIn If It wo we cant can't fight Kilbane eald nob- nob ert art manager we will tight fight Nobody la is b barred in- in In Including anyone eluding 11 Johnny y Dundee If r i m must t fight Dundee Instead of or Kilbane we will Insist that the worlds world's featherweight featherweight feather feather- weight title be at stake since your commission recognizes Dundee as all the champion nut Dut a Q JI utile tle more snore than five years ago had bad DC no idea of seeking a II wor worlds world's boxing title be he thought his ring career caruer was through but he ho fo foUght again be because because because be- be cause it was the only means of o livelihood liveli livoll- hood he lie e knew I In 1917 he was din die 8 charged I gol f from the hospital hospital cured o I cured U t they said but unfit for military duty And Aad he had a a. mother to support and hi his sweetheart wa was willing wUlIn to marry the apparently health broken athlete A Afew Afew few months after atter his bill discharge from the hospital in Sn desperation he again donned the tho mitts It was Yas about this time that he lie fell In with and he underwent rigorous training and I a a. strange thing happened He te changed his style from that hat of a Do boxer to a a. fighter tighter and antI ho he developed a a. knockout punch and ind won many victories enjoyed some measure of prosperity and married his sweetheart The merit mark of or those dark days of his battle battlo with death and of course his hll ring career have left their Impress on his bill Interesting facial mask refer reer to as a small addition to there CarpentIer-there there is la no resemblance ra ra- ra daily Ills his is a a. physiognomy that may maylack maylack maylack lack the tho distinction of at Georges but it is III Q a more interesting face f there Is II less of the actor and much snuck more of or orthe the fighter tighter Let us try to picture him for tor you lb Ho Is slender and graceful built rather taller than at first place clace tho the record books give his hili height as 6 Ii feet 4 Inches but when ho he stripped and measured for tor the writer his hi actual height was found to be bo 6 S feet teet G Gt inches Just poe now though ho lie has bas not Dot fought sineS last le December he be is only about three pounds over the tile lea limit His Ills arms are quite long for his build with a a. inch 66 stretch his fists are also alBo rather large Urge Ills IUs bod body la is a Q a healthy pink and contrasts strangely el with his hla face tace which Is almost colorless in comparison Of Ot courso course the first thing that strikes the eye on an all examination of his t tot totIs ii Is his hili permanent war var badge lIo with the jaw slightly askew and tiLe tue tautened skin over his healed bullet Wounds it throws In contrast cOl the right jaw with something of or a like bulldog lIke The taco face Is pierced by a a. rather wide stretched mouth and shows showe a anOle nose nOle sll slightly flattened left ear with cauliflower trademark rk gray blue eyes eye rather small and hair of or almost lusterless lusterless luster- luster less black brushed straight back It is a s lean grave courteous countenance countenance coun coun- with an air of abstraction and andon andon on which the stamp of ot suffering 18 is distinguish above its blow-beaten blow characteristics It all gives promise of or oran an interesting effort erfort when Criqui li h i I called on to perform before an Amerl American an fight gathering |