Georges Carpentier, left, and Muhammad Ali (AP Wire) |
"COME ON ye moving picture guys,
And listen to my tale;
Ye hurlers of the custard pies
Who gather in the kale.
Another moving stare we hear,
Must in the picture horn--
And his name is Georges Carpentier
Greatest fighter ever born."
- Francois Descamps, Omaha World Herald, 1920