Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — NO BOXER HAS SHOWN MORE BRAVERY THAN GEORGES CARPENTIER OF FRANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO BOXER HAS SHOWN MORE BRAVERY THAN GEORGES CARPENTIER OF FRANCE

The “big guns” of America’s pugilistic world have not gone in for actual! fighting in the world war as have Carpentier, Wells, Piet, Wilde and others, who have added to the glory of the ring history of France and England by gallantly serving at the front. No boxer has shown more courage than this Carpentier, once called a quitter in the ring game. Georges has been awarded the Cross of War for “conspicuous bravery in flying at a low . height of about 50 yards” above the German trenches and batteriesjiuring the French offensive at Verdun. Scores of machine guns and thousands of rifles popped away at him, the wings of his airplane were bullet-riddled, the frame was splintered, but Carpentier continued to keep above the German lines, his observer signaled back the German position and the French gunners wiped them out, one after the other.