The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-01
Johnson Thinks
 Wells Easy Mark
Champion Expects Soft Time With England's
 Best Mitt Artist

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 1.-Gangway for Bombardier Wells, British heavy weight champion!
 Lip Artha Johnson is waiting to welcome him.
 Advices from England within the last few days carry the announcement that they are grooming the Bombardier for a championship battle with the big chocolate champion, and if the Humane Society does not interfere the men will be brought together in a twenty-round contest in Hugh Mo Intosh's London arena about the lat ter part of September.
 What a fine murder the Australian promoter has framed up!
 Gunner Moir knocked out Bombar- dier Wells in three rounds at London.
 Now figure this out.
 Eddie iMcGoorty middleweight scaling approximately 154 pounds. wall loped Petty Officer Curran until the punishment.
 Then Curran turns around and beats Gunner Moir to a pulp.
 Moir in turn hangs a lusty right to the jaw of Bombardier Wells, and Eng lands present aspirant for the cham pionship takes a dive into the resin and remains there.
 And this wells is the fellow who is being groomed to lift the heavyweight crown from the slanting dome of Lir Artha.
 Oi yoi, oi yoi; it, will be a moidah surely.
 In justice to wells, however, it must be admitted that the knockout against him registered by Gunner Moir was a great deal of fluke. Wells was whip ping Moir easily and looked like certain winner as the third round was drawing to close.
 Then, as Wells tells it, Moir being a friend of his-in fact, old training camp mates-a feeling of pity creeps into the heart of the Bombardier. He lets his guard drop momentarily, and Moir seeing the chance, shot out a haymaker that landed flush on the chin. It was curtains for Bombardier.
 That Moir realized his victory was due to a chance blow was manifest shortly afterward when efforts were made by wells to secure a return match. To all overtures Moir turned a deaf ear, and he has consistently avoided the Bombardier ever since.
 The defeat of Wells was big shock to his many frieneds throughout the empire, many of whom were begin ming to believe that Wells was really developing into heavyweight of class. Wells. little later, in a meas ure redeemed himself for his sorry showing against Moir by taking on Ion Hague, at one time heavyweight holder of the British crown. Hague lasted just two rounds against Wells.
 No ring follower over here will con- cede that Wells is a ft opponent for Johnson in ring condition or out, and if Mcintosh persists in bringing the men together as now contemplated it will be a certainty that the big black will simply toy with the Bombardier ha ofc finishing punch.
 Wells is twenty-two years Of age, weighs in perfect shape about 190 lbs and stands 6 feet inches in height.
 Good judges of boxers, like Jimmy Britt and Jimmy .Clabby, say that Wells is unusually clever for big fellow. But he lacks punishing pow CT and does not seem able to stand up against rough wallcping.
 Wells began fighting while a soldier in India. His father was a musical composer who earned enough to keep the family in modest. circumstances When he died the responsibility de- volved upon Billy. Finding the wa ges of a bombardier insufficient, he supplemented his earnings by turning professional fighter. Like Gunner Moir, he eventually won the army championship of India. Returning to England he won a couple of contests when he was seen by Eugene Corri, who can claim the distinction of be- ing the real discoverer of this particu- lar white mans hope' Corri told Mcintosh that wells was the most promising heavyweight he had ever seen and the Australian lost no time in placing him under contract.
 Tn connection with the talk of match between Johnson and Wells it is rumored that Johnson may take on Petty Officer Curran at London about the middle of August. This bout would be even, a bigger farce than the Johnson-We1ls burlesque.
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