A BOXER'S LOST FORTUNE.
Georges Carpentier, heavy-weight boxing Champion of Europe, now m the Kronen Flyin- C'orp?, tells m.tlie Weekly Dispatch r!iat £«■ has lost the better part ot his iortuno that he had made. "When I was raminp- thousands of pounds in a night 1 _ put my money by. i invested much of it in the coal mine's at Lens, which is my home, and where I worked as a liitlo boy until F-'i'.cois Descamps took mo out into the world to box for a living. My investments. J«ad war not this come oneo .itfifffhkqjfi had this war not come, would have made mo a. rich man. but now they have ironc, for the Germans have had Lens and the mines in their hands for some twenty-one monthr. And. than all, tor all that time I have not. heard directly from my father or mother or two sisters who are shut up in Lens." Carpentier toys that but for tho war he could have eitrned iroia 510,000 ;o £15,002 & year in borir-j.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 11
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172A BOXER'S LOST FORTUNE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 11
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