| Show s An Authoritative Sport j Feature turo by the thc Foremost Fore Forc- I I 1 most Sporting Writer Writ 1 and Cartoonist in I America Carpentier of France Now a of the Air While Many Others Have Been Decorated for Courageous Feats Some of the Most Famous Have Been e n Killed or Crippled in Action By ROBERT EDGREN I The of the world have been doing their full share of fighting in th the European war Daily the dispatches from the front carry scores of names of men mn famous in different lines of sport Sometimes they are listed among the killed sometimes among the heroes who have survived fierce bayonet charges exploding mines or battles in the air Sometimes they are mentioned in in passing pass pass- ing Irig as ai having received the tok tokens ns of honor given for feats of courage that stand out even desperate courage is the thc customary thing So many of the bravest and the best have been killed that we can hardly avoid wondering whether or not there will be any football men cricketers tennis ten ten- nis players player golfers track and field athletes athlete bicycle riders or boxers left to carry Garry on amateur and professional sport when the war is over The boxers boxer have been doing their part in the fighting In England France Canada and arid Australia hundreds of men were among the first to enlist Carpentier a War Hero Most MOlt famous of them all Is II Georgel Georges Carpentier of France only a few weeks week ago decorated for the second time for hit his heroic exploits In the air all In France Francs Cir Car Carpentier was wal a popular hero long before the war began He started a remarkable rin ring career as al a feather weight when a II amere amere mere boy and as al he grew rapidly In weight and experience became In success success- lon don feather weight light weight welter weiter welterweight weight middle weight and heavy weight champion of Europe A handsome dashIng dashIng dash dash- Ing fellow whose smile never deserted him even In his most desperate ring fights fight he ha was almost an Idol In France In several leveral weight clause classes he whipped English Eng lish champions Boxing was a new sport In France had monopolized It for fur centuries To beat but the English boxer at their own game In Irs fair fall and generous combat filled every French heart with lay joy When Carpentier tI knocked out English Eng I fish lish Middle Weight Champion a gf Jim ts Smith rh It seemed he had reached the tho height of fame In the ring But as al European mIddie middle mid mId- die dle weight champion he challenged Bom Bom- Wells heavy weight champion outclassed him completely and knocked him out twice In four rounds then In one All through France Francs auto auto- carried small email fronze figures of Carpentier on their radiator cap caps Statuettes Statu Statu- ettes ettea and pictures of him were every where He was considered peer of all th the worlds world's fighting men and Jack Johnson Johnson John John- son 10 refused to fight him Then came th the war WIll ru he 1 to the Ine front At first he was Wall driver of an n officers officer's oar ar He Ste was wall being kept out of or danger ancer for Fran France ranee wanted anted him after But BUS was wall n a t real raI fight hl ii and SN he its soon entered the w. w became a skilled r. r and o fIghting In the tho air as ax naturally bad d taken to fl fighting hUn In n a ring rinK 5 become one ons of the moat moel famous of ot toll airmen With his companion o r biM brought O endO ton down several a German ih In battles above the clouds and Ma IsIs ma machine on long and andI I over the enemy's nem Before th the war Carpentier fortune of about O half bait a minion million I tS ring rn A large g part of or this led ed tn In coal mines mined In a district behind G German tine lines Sh Stop Little Ledoux remember C Charles CarIes Arlu L doux i Jit French bantam weight tighter lighter N d milted us ua twice and fought some of ot obest W but il men In that class Ledoux wallI was wall I 10 popular If It Mill living he Is Isa a Ii In the French army V few b i months ago a shall burst over a bombproof bomb bomb- o proof In W which Ledoux Ledou was on dut duty bury bury- lIu tag Win under the th sacks Back of stand sand He tie Vms severely Injured but recovered andt and went t back to the firing string line In a Il few Artan Roan French middle weight after Carpenters Carpenter's graduation lute Into ut the heavier class was crippled by a ab b ll 1 theM Many tany others t e lees leas f famous have v Mm killed for in tn France Prance practically allor all of or the tbs boxers bour went to thc the front at the of ot the war America bu bs ent many famous U fighters I toAi Yr to tb front O Old timers remember Prank Frank who 0 fought In Sullivan's Sullivans time waa an Australian born In 1862 H n. n t taunt Jam Smith heavy weight of at England Enand and the ring waa was oRto op LIlO by a gang when Slavin was This was waa under the old London rule He lie fought all the great sd-r sd ie bi i time Peter Jl ck Jackson on Buffalo Ci J Jo Charlie Mitchell Jik Jik In Jim JUn Hall and asid many more th the gold O strikes its were made e eta In Alaska was In the e first I rr rush eF F For Fora tat ta he be a wasn't beard bard from Then Frank tell to tile the wrestler thought h hed he'd d turn fIg II U. U took on old Frank Slavin a y n IY Iy mark ant and Slavin SlavI knocked h him Mt t. t His Ilia first ring rinK right js In ISIl bis bIa hit in 1 1907 07 with Nick k Burl Burle In Bri BrttHA Columbia At th the th 1 nice age of f 54 Yank rank Bk a d with the Canadian troops He lie w was s still m a powerful pol healthy man I and so O far an as our Information goes oe I IROW Is Isnow ROW now on the firing line somewhere In Jack Munroe Munro Will Never Swing Another Right Ad there was Jack While toot football ball In California years ago aKO Moore tH won the amateur heavy weight of the coast then went to mining in Butte Mont He lie stay stayed tour four founds with Jeffries and took up a as a professional H lie won a V. V number of fights but on a second meetie meet meet- ie with Jr fries V was ut knocked out I II In two i remade Monroe Maura went back bak to mining aM M nil 4 a fortune running Into six figurea fig fig- urea urs Op Up P la In the Canadian wilderness where 1 bt a me of the first prospectors At th the first tall call an for troops Munro the suc- suc c man rushed to 10 Montreal Montrel and aad d with the She k C Canadian the Princess Princes Pae Pals Every M man B wis a trained athlete athiel hunter and oyer oTer six lib feet tall The Th e. e eM teas Pmt Pits so 0 o Canadian Canadians claimed d. d were I I th the t ute men ever put pui Into a uniform I Tb mm we sent t to th the front In Belgium I a sad d tu Sn tb the d i fighting Jt that checked I ta tk great German advance were wiped os When chen Monroe fell shot ahot through the I C he n was one of thirty men left out I of ot ISa that bad had sailed from Canada a I the before Munroe lived but bUl lost Bis Tight rIcht arm ann I 1 oai tm un handle bundle a rt rine Munroe fa When hn I get home we must after elk and bear bar up the I t orl ern st A game e man manS Jack Sack Moo and a cheerful ut one e I English Kab boxers boxer haven't been ben backward In to t the padded glove clove for the bayo bayo- I net nt Tom former English wetter welter weight champion was wu killed a Uttie Uttie lit Ut- Ut tie tle while ago In a Il bayonet charge In tn France Francs McCormack won the title by knocking out Johnny Summers who Is i Leo also serving a and Is now a sergeant He lost the rim titie title and ll Sergeant Johnny h haham Ba- Ba a. a shein aham is tin tile present holder bolder McCormack wu yIa matched to to- fight In upon his return to England That t fIght ht Win will never k e fa fought g Delaney ll Took the Long Count In France n England's best belt light tight weight Jerry T Dehy De- De hy who Tho was waa as 9 the f I. f Welsh beat rry IL Ston In I f gi jut Just tte Stone Ston a fUr lIU gUns p full U u 11 sIP D 1 y ro Y aT ani Sh F v. v 7 5 le ie I a 1 I H IO o C l flo- flo 1 CI C cIC c- c I g IC men be bp wen wee the he tret hoa iLa s Bounded himself ant nO furloughed to lO 1 i I England Ho lie returned to the front and I was wee killed In a bayonet charge In the beginning beginning be be- be- be ginning of the great English advance orthe on or L the Somme Jo Joe Shear the fly weight who vho visited America and fought very successfully re returned returned re- re turned to England with the Canadian L troops to fight for tor his country He was I gassed In the tho first German gas attack attach at al Ypres and ami amiI 1 U I Still In a hospital in England slowly recovering Jimmy Wilde lIde the most sensational L champion England has developed In manyI many years has tried three times to get mm Into I the English army y but has been rejected each time because ho he weighs only ninetysix ninety ninety- six pounds He Ic hopes hope to be accepted later on In the m meanwhile he Is knocking knocking- out OUI all opponents up to pounds pound II and andI thinks nothing of giving twenty pounds I of ot weight to the best beet of them Wilde la Is I known as S The Terror Is 24 years old married and has two children children chil chil- dren He wants to fight Kid ld Williams I or Johnny I Ertle for tor the bantam title Dick Burge once famous m light weight el lIf ch champion lo of England who fought h Kid L Lavigne for the world title In 1896 and L was knocked out Is a sergeant se In the English army He is stationed in London biggest In g charge boxing o of tn training r promoters In t recruits rr In England and r. r n Is it His the I shows are held at The Ring Black Friars and he ha turns large sums over to Red Keel Cross Croas work I Jem Driscoll of ot Wales who was the I most popular fighter England ever sent cc to- to America Is a sergeant In the Royal Roya Welsh elsh Horse lie He Is at present resent In England Eng Eng- land and end Is 18 going to fight Owen Moran Owen Is fighting very well but has hall been beer I rejected by the army because of ot varicose veins Bombardier Wells ells volunteered not long after the war broke out but was rejected as all he be had two brothers already serving servin and was supporting their families es while they were at the front Wells eIls Is In the I army now a sergeant Instructor drilling and training recruits Pat OKeefe who fought In America and afterward became English middleweight middleweight middle middle- weight champion Is III a corporal In the I First East t Surrey regiment Jim Smith who wax was as knocked out by Carpentier when I he was waa English middle weight champion Is II at the front Arthur who as welter weight champion of England I fought and was wax beaten by Carpentier served In the British arm army but Is 18 now I In I Australia Three of his brothers are I Ithe In InI Inthe I the army of f notable of f the A Australian One the most Aus Aus- us- us I boxing contingent Is Harald Baken Baker Ba Ba- ker ken brother of Snowy Snow Bal Baker er the famous fa ft ta- ta mou Australian boxing promoters Harald Harald Har liar ald aid Baker was n a well known amateur boxer and refereed many big fights He HeI volunteered and went to with theL the I Australian troops troop lie He has recently been L sent back to Australia on a stretcher and packed in a plaster cast possibly cripple for life A horse In n a gun n team kicked f him and d tr broke his back ct Press I Copyright 1916 Publishing Co |
