The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
Interesting Dope Shooting Age
 of Pugiiists When 1n Their Prime

Paddy slayin fought yem Smith in shs wear ss EIsip M 1s.,r.R .R ls9ss Hgspks ss Ing whipped hv Nick Hlnicy. 2 third Philadelphia Jack O'Brien is s1 years S SSaps seGe sIo.ssa ns $ ana is wSsn won at Jackson when he was s5. beat cardiff and Ed smith a!s , at at 2. end wa: Is,snd sl when
 George Dixon, after q wonderful lost the title to McGovern at the age De is. beat p Spike Robson in eleven rounds the middleweiKhf title at 2s years was ss the year he e dsfsassd ted gill yi9nes smts measure in California; 30 when he boxed Tom Tracy. and 32 when wal colt trimmed him in Frisco.
 Tommy Burns was ls when he be. now. Joe Cans who lost the light weight championship to Battling Nell sou last year, was ss in Novsmber years and is stiii able to go some, Kid Mccoy was z2 when he began fFht ing and was 27 when he induiged n
 the memorable fake with corb c, sds in when The was g. but came back to
 age age of s5. Abe Attell the present
 IsassevMisnf is ss wies Jem plscro. ehampisn of | England and Australia. who wants to light him for the worlds title: IS 2s. Terry Mcoovsrn was was l,1y ls whssn so when he knocked Pedlar Palmer out in punch at Tuckahoe, and 2I when he defeated Dixon He was 22 when 1 Young Corbett knocked him out in
 sSSo sS. rounds at har''oro' anu =" |. KetcheI should Improve.
 l Stanley KetcheI the middleweight | champion, who is willing to mix IL up
 with Johnson at Goima on yniy .nst 4 4 he takes care of himself and contin- l ues to grow he will be high h-elass
 heavyweight in a couple of years
 champion wifi be 27 in June. He en- l tered the ring in 1900 and won his title from Cans last July. Young
 to light, is just 30 years old. He was
 IS when he took part in his hrst bat tie, and was 22 when he beat McGcv-
 ern for the featherweight champion
 ship.
 Ben Johnson, of England, was 8
 when he defeated Pediar Palmer in
 Ryan, ex-middleweight champion, was { fought Yo1ng Griio for the feather. T was 27 Murphy was 33 when he beat
 Paddy Smith, middleweight, in Gin
 cinnati, and A when he put out Tom
 Toohey in one round at New Ply
 mouth. Jimmy Barry, former bantam
 champion, was 27 when he took the measure of Johnny Ritchie and John ny Corners. Joe Walcott, the giant killer and former welterwelght cham pion, began fighting when he was IS.
 When he knocked the heavyweight Joe Chonski out ifI-seven rounds at the Broadway A. c. he was 2S, and is still fighting now and then. at. the age of 3S. Johnnine Coulon. the ban tam champion is only 20 years old | Jimmy Britt who will fight Johnny
 Summers in England next month is 29. Jack Blackburn, a crack colored | lightweight and welterweight, IS 26 I Joe Jeanette, who has gone to Eu-
 rope expecting to 4meet sam McVey | and Jack Johnson, will be 29 this year ! Hugo Kelly and. Bill Papke.- who I recently fought 8 draw in Los Ange- 1 les, are 26 and and 23 respectively. sam Langford the colord Boston mid 1 dleweight who hopes to meet Johnson at the National Sporting Club of Lon 1 don next month Is about 26 Packy l McFarland,. the Chicago lightweight, was A2O last November. Owen Moran, | the English feather" who has box | ed two draws with Attells will be 25 ! next October.