Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1917 — CARPENTIER IS NOT COMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARPENTIER IS NOT COMING

Heavyweight Champion of Europe Denies He Is Being Sent on Trip to United States. Information has been received in London by the “News of the World” that Georges Carpentier, heavyweight

champion of Europe,. who has done splendid work with tiie French aviation corps, denies the report that he is being sent to America. It has been rumored many times that Carpentier was going to- the States wlth Jean Navarre, another aviator, to give the American flying men the benefit of their great experiences in the air and for Georges to engage In some exhibition 'bouts for the benefit of the French Red Ctoss society.

Georges Carpentier.