Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — CARPENTIER A HEAVY-WEIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARPENTIER A HEAVY-WEIGHT

Former French Middleweight Finds It Difficult to Make Weight for That Division. 11 ■ Georges Carpentier, the French middleweight champion, is to become a heavyweight. Carpentier has been growing too heavy for the middleweight class and finds it difficult to 1 make weight - for this division. His defeat at the hands of Billy Papke is laid by Carpentier’s backers to the fact that he virtually had to starve himself to get down to the middleweight limit and greatly weakened himself thereby. Carpentier was looked upon aS a wonder in the ring by the French boxing lovprs, who hailed him as the greatest middleweight in the world. Such glowing reports of his prowess as a fighter reached, these shores that America fight fanciers were forced to the conclusion that he must be a real ring marvel. But when the French champion went up against a couple of good American glove artists his boasted superiority was given a rude setback. Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg bear cat, and Billy Papke, who is not near as good a fighter as he was a few years ago, had no trouble in beating the foreigner. There has been talk for some

time of Carpentier coming to this country and giving Americans a chance to see him in action. It is possible that the‘French will be seen on this side before long.

Georges Carpentier.