Show Carpentier Won First Fight In 18 Rounds at Age of 14 By fly P. G. G TRANS ANS Staff Correspondent Service I NEW YORK June 27 Georges Georges Carpentier Carpentier Carpentier Car Car- blond idol of ot La Lia Belle France seems an anomaly to the American ff fight ht fan To a public accustomed to associate scarred faces cauliflower ears square Jaws and like gorilla features with the boxer as a type this French fashion plate with his sleekly combed hair his fair complexion and handsome appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance seems more fitted for wrestling with the dainty accoutrements of the tea table than with the rough and ready milieu of the prize ring MAXY u. BATTLES But that same Georges with his sleek hair and his unmarked countenance countenance counte counte- nance has fought more battles than an any of ot the leading heavyweights of ot America Six eighty six eighty of them accordIng according according accord accord- ing to the records since he entered the professional ring at the age of 14 back in 1908 Georges was born at Lens in northern northern north north- em ern France in 1894 Francois Descamps Descamps Des Des- c camps then an round all athlete came cameto cameto I Ito to Lens as phy physical Instructor In the schools when Georges was 11 years old In his rounds of the schools Descamps Descamps Descamps Des- Des I camps saw the boy and was astonished at his quickness to learn and his In Incipient Incipient incipient In- In athletic prowess He obtained permission from Georges' Georges parents to give the boy private Instruction in boxing boxing boxing box box- I I ing and Ia la the French form of boxing in which the feet take the place of the hands WAS VAS APT APP PUPIL Georges was an apt pupil though I rather mischievous He lie never went to school if it he could avoid it and ho he constantly constantly constantly con con- I violated the parental curfew rule Descamps undertook to punish him for his lapses by punching hIm rath rather r harder than necessary in their practice encounters with the gloves I Georges secretly resented this treatment treat treat- ment meat but he kept his own counsel until until until un un- un- un I til the psychological moment arrived I Then one day when Descamps had cuffed him soundly for some prank Georges hauled off oft and let Descamps have his now famous right to the chin The astonished instructor flopped to the canvas Not long after aCter that Descamps en entered entered entered en- en the youngster In an amateur championship tournament Lens and and Goerges had no trouble in carrying away the honors in the pound class CAREER About this time an English Jockey named Salmon who did fighting righting on the side issued issued a challenge to any for a bout with a side bet Descamps on behalf of Georges arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged a a. twenty round fl fight ht Carpentier Carpentier Carpentier Carpen Carpen- tier won in eighteen rounds That was the beginning Inning of his professional ca en- en reer lIe He was fourteen years ears old at the time There was agitation in the press against Descamps for his young prodigy to engage in these early fights he fights he appeared to be so frail and so much of ot a child The police put up the bars against him for a while as a result of ot this agitation but the young scrapper b by this time had become so I popular that the public forced the tho police police police po po- po- po lice to relent For a time Carpentier continued to fight ht In the bantamweight class but in 1910 he entered the lightweight ranks meeting a number of prominent lightweights lightweights lightweights light light- weights and beating most of ot them In Inthe Inthe the following year he became a welter welter- weight LOST JOT ONE ONn FIGHT His Ills first fight in this class was with witha a boxer by the name of Brochet whom he knocked out In seven rounds He lost one fight that year year year-a a sixteen sixteen- round battle with Eustache another French fighter righter He defeated a number of good men that season including Young Joseph champion of England Jim Sullivan English middleweight champion and Harry Lewis American merican welterweight champion French FrenchI In 1912 the rising young I boxer met a Tartar in Frank Klaus the American fighter tighter but held on until the nineteenth round when he was disqualified disqualified dis dis- qualified for tor a fouL fout Billy also defeated him in a seventeen-round seventeen fight that year In BEATS InTS TS WELLS In 1913 Carpentier scored two knockout knockout knock knock- out victories over Bombardier Wells VeIls the English champion and in 1914 he hewon hewon won vo on fouls from Gunboat Smith and Kid Jackson He also knocked knocked- out George Mitchell l Then the French boxer went to war handling the rifle the pick and the shovel In the mudd muddy trenches of northern northern north north- em ern France until the German debacle in I 1918 allowed him to return to the pursuits pursuits pursuits pur suits of peace Since then he has knocked out Joe Beckett the English heavyweight weight champion and Battling Levinsky called the American light heavyweight cham cham- pion And that is the rather stormy career of ot the silk fighter tighter from overseas overseas overseas over over- seas who hopes to knock off Jack Dempsey's Dempse s crown on July 2 |