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Show CARPENTER HAILED AS WHITE HOPE BY PARIS ADMIRERS I (George Carpentier, the speedy French and English middleweight champion.) Pans. Dec 20 Elated over his sensational sen-sational one round victorv over Bom- i hardier Wells. Parisian pugilistic fans are nailing Gporges Carpenter, champion cham-pion middleweKht of Prance and Fnc-land, Fnc-land, as the only rpal white hope While they grudgingly concede that the dapper Frenchman is not yet big enough to challenge Jack Johnson the ncsro incumbent of the heavyweight throne, the French fight foilowers be-llevo be-llevo that their idol is developing so I rapidly that he will he in a position I to challenge the big black within al year s time Carpentier is without doubt a clcer boxer and his knock-1 out record Is substained evidence of his punching ability. Carpentier is thinking scrioush of j invading America to tak.- on die best 1 of his weights in the states and thus acqulro more experience beforp he 1 graduates into the heavy wok ht dlvia Ion. Carpentier has expressed the .le- ! slre to engage in a lout with George i Chlpp. the middleweight who KAdcked out Frank Klaus several weeks aeo |