The evening world., 1911-05-17
English Boxers Now Here Show
In Training That They Are a
Good Lot Of Amateurs, Par.
tiouIariy Warnes, spenceley
and Allen, Who Would Make
Very Fair Pros" II They
Cared To.
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LIVE rathsr lonely looking English
men sat on the porch at Wood.
lawn Inn yesterday afternoon.
They were HUSKY follows. bronzed by
the sun. having the appearance OF out
door athletes. No casual observer
would have taken them for boxers. yet
they are ''gcntiemen amateurs' Just
arrived from England 10 take part In
the International amateur tournament
that 10 TO b. held in Madison Square
Garden Friday and Saturday nights
under the colors of the Pastime A. c.
Tho appearance of tho men Ia charac-
feristic OF English Snort. which recog-
nises no age limit. Few of our amateur
boxers are over twenty-ons. but these
English range from seventeen to thirty
seven. The youngest - Ralph Erskine
of Glasgow. seventeen years, n public
schools champion Of Great Britain. The
oldest. Frank Parks. ive times heavy
N~Weyht champion of England. II thirty
seven. He looks for all the world like
Peter Maher, barring only the matter
OF inteiligsnce tpoor PsterD. He has .
heavy mustacho that Peter would have
twirled with great pleasure In his
~proudest momen0. Also he has. . big.
heavy. square knuckied pair Of hsts.
and II he can use them 10 effectively
Is Peter did-Toodby to . few Of our
amateurs'
had the pleasure Of sss,n6 PARKS
box at the National Sporting Club u
London In '2 in a amateur tourna-
mont against q supposed American
college champion from Harvard"
Dodge by name. Dodge was . beautiful
specimen. physically. but without the
courage Of q jsllytish. Parks hit him
two or three ciouts. and Dodge turned
hus back. eaned over the ropes and
quit cold. Wherefore Il u likely that
Mr.. Parks has . poor opinion OF Amsri.
can amateurs.
Another o the ave fought on that 90
ession. II was r. C. warnss. the wei
terweight, who beat Freddy wenok.
warnes IL a very clever boxer. strong
and fast and CLASSY. and = good heady
Aghter. Just how good he 10 may be
guessed from the fact that he has won
the English middiswelght title nve
times. and last year stayed out OF the
competition simply because no one would
enter to fight him.
w. W.. Allen. the bantam. IL . cocky
little fellow. built like . fighter from
his heels to his head. He IL very strong
and aggressive n a. clever as any one
needs to b. He 10 the present amateur
bantam champion in England.
Alfred spenceley. tho lightweight. Is
another classy looking boy. four times
champion Of England. strong. clever and
a rafting t~wo-handed puncher. Mat
Wells was once amateur champion.
Grace beat him. spenceley beat Grace,
Tho pot of the bunch II Erskine, who
10 tall ana thin and as yet merely an
OF the othsrs seemed to have an eye on
the lad all the time. and to BIO ready to
\ turn In and help him..
-HE gymnasium work OF the crowd
lasted for about half IN hour. In
the morning they had all covered
three or four miles at q good pace. and
they say that they are about "nt' now.
without more hard work. They have
come q long way TO box three rounds
each. Tho heavyweight punched the
bag. dancing aboat quite lightly for q
big man, and hitting straight from the
shoulder IN the old English boxing style
Allen and warnes boxed together. Aller
was quite q mixer. while Warnes, be-
cause Of his superior weight. contented
himself with blocking and duckins
blows cleveriy. and only occasionally
roughing q little. Then Erskine anc
spencAey boxed lightly. in . friendl,
way. They all worked a little while with
dumbbells and on various physical cul
ture stunts, ana the day was over. Tit
work that they did was enough TO show
that this 10 Q very good lot Of amateurs
and that warnss. 5penceley and Allei
would. make very fair pros II the!
cared TO.
The professional dsA- however
doesn't make the same hit with thes'
English amateurs that II foes will
practically all Of the amateurs II
America, whose n ambition " TO 20
into the big money class.
I was talking with Parks. the heavy
weight, and mentioned the sum o
money hat ! happened to know wa
paid to a certain amateur boxe
some years ago.
NJ word." said he. with . look o
a~stonlshment. and DO you know wha
| received for beating that American
in L~ondon?-Just a bit of an Australia
gold medal. worth about fifteen bot
Not a bit OF expenses or anything lk
that!' C'Fifteen bob Is about 1910 /
our money!
The English are particular about Eek
pense money" which will no doub
surprise some Of the boxers on thi
side. For instance. when offered ex
penses for a professional trainer TO &C
company the team on the rip fror
England they promptly refused. sayin
that II wasn't customary TO accept pro
fessional coaching under such circum
stances. and that II would be equiya
lent to taking money. They even re
fused TO accept a sum TO cover tips o.
the trip. saying that their W asso
citation had provided money for tina
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