Boxing.

Southland Times, Issue 18810, 1 May 1920, Page 9

Boxing.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the civil marriage was celebrated on March S of Georges Carpentier, boxing champion of Europe and idol of France, with Mile. Georgette Laurentia Elsasscr. Carpentier had, it is said, desired that the wedding should be an entirely quiet and private affair, but boxing champions aro servants of the public, and have, therefore, however little they may like it, to submit to the terrors of publicity. Quite early in the morning, the Rue d’Anjou, where the Maine of the district is situated, was crowded with a happy throng, largely feminine, who desired to wish good luck to the boxing champion. The wedding party was contained in two limousines and five open cars, Carjientier, as on all great occasions in his life, being accompanied by his ever-faithful shadow, Descamps. The ceremony was short and formal, hut a descriptive French witness declares that the happy boxer pronounced his “Yes” with as much energy as lie is wont to apply in the execution of his famous swing. In his address to the wedded couple, the Mayor quoted Montaigne and Rabelais, and declared to Carpentier that he was a true artist and a true sportsman, a brave man who would soon be champion of the world. On leaving the Mairie the wedding party had to face a veritable msiladc of cheers and cameras. The religious ceremony was celebrated next day. ■ <»XX«)