Again you had to wait for the back of this card, where the first brand was "Exmoor" Hunt. This card might be a surprising one for boxing fans as yes, it is Georges Benoit Carpentier, but in just one of his many guises, as an actor and cinema star.
He was born in France on January 12th, 1894, and his acting career came, as many sporting heroes, as a way to get his fans into movie theatres. Unusually he fought as a few weights, starting as a teenager in a low weight class, and growing as he aged, and eventually going up for the Heavyweight category against Jack Dempsey in 1921, who might have beaten him, but left the ring as a friend.
In the midst of his boxing fame Georges Carpentier had gone to war, become a pilot, and won both the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire. He retired from boxing in 1927, toured on the stage, and started as an actor. He passed his waiting time by writing several books, and cooking, and he would become a restaurant owner, opening Chez Georges Carpentier in Paris. Strangely, his friend Jack Dempsey also had a restaurant, right opposite Madison Square Garden.
Georges Carpentier died in Paris on October 28, 1975, aged eighty one. He had a wife, and a daughter.