Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — GEORGES CARPENTIER, FRENCH BOXER, UNABLE TO MAKE JOURNEY TO AMERICA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGES CARPENTIER, FRENCH BOXER, UNABLE TO MAKE JOURNEY TO AMERICA

Georges Carpentier, the only man France ever had who loomed as a prospective heavyweight champion of the world, has been downed in airplane work, according to recent advices from Paris. The big fellow joined the French infantry at the start of the war and distinguished himself until wounds put him out of service. After recuperation he joined, up with the aviation section, only to be placed on his back a second time with injuries suffered through a receift fall. News of his accident did not reach the United States until a cable inquiring when he expected to come to America and carry out his promised stunt of training United States army boxers brought the news that he was only just out of the hospital again. Carpentier Is devoting himself to teaching physical culture at the Joinvllle Normal school In France and expects to rejoin the flyers wherf fully recovered. There is little hope that he will be seen in this country until after the war.