The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-30
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS
 ARE TEACHING BOXING
Rv F. s. Arrdrewsl.

The Australian school boys whom Snowy Baker has been teaching to. ,bos.-or his instructors have been teaching t11en=are trayeling hum dreds of miles over the States of New South Wales aud Victoria to give eoz- htbitions at patriotic carnivals- The State railways are carrying them at reduced rates and they are very much in the patriotic boom Baker has now extended his scheme and has started classes amongst the Australian Boy Scouts of whom there are about 20.-s O0o The classes are being formed to take 100 boys at a time, and they are getting free lessons. The head class in Sydney is instructed by Snowy s two brothers Fred and Frank
 Tn the last six months more boys have been learning boxing in Aus traIia. than ever knew the game be- fore, the reason being the free classes which Baker started
 It was while Hughie Mehegan was away in England fighting Matt Wells ana Freddie Welsh that the Victorian Ii lightweight. Herb Mccoy came into prominence in Australia, coming out as the next best. after dueIs with Frenc hmen. At that time Mccoy looked like taking the Australian title away from Mehegan, but when they at. last met in Sydney Stadium last month the old champion proved too. good and he knocked McCoy out in the 17th round.
 4 The lirneHght of the moment is on the Australian hghtweigh Fred Kay, who gained two verdicts over Mi1burr Saylor and one over Joe Shugrue. The battle with Shugrue was in Sydney Stadium. Kay is purely a boxer, not a. fighter, and is8a proof that they fight in all shapes" for his physique. is mostly legs and wings. He is ex-l traordinarf1y fast and clever and though he doesn't carry a knockout anywhere in his portmanteau, twill have to be .. specially good man who. can outpotnt him. This defeat was Shugrue's last fight in Australia He goes away by the same vessel which carries this mail, accompanied by Tommy Lee and the fighters, Robbie Moore and Fritz Holland.
 Fritz Holland must have gotten a nice little bank roll from his two lights with the Australian middle smiths apprentice with the talent of a. natural fighter, and did so well against the rough stuff he was first call on to fight that he looked like d coming champion. Holland gained a verdict on poiits the first time be- fore Q. house like that which watched Burns fight Johnson six years ago. The second fight was in Sydney and Darcy lost 1t in the eighteenth round on foul. Otherwise Darcy was lead ing on points. Either it was mex perience that made him swing the illegal blows, or else his sight was astray through 9 very heavy blow he got on one eye early in the enga ge-
 nent. Darcy is next to fight the French fighter, Knockout Marchand, and Dave Smith is coaching him for this ordeal.
 15e Snowy Baker imported to Australia have so far made good. They include Louis DePonthieu, Marcel Denis, Mar eel Volaires Jules Lepreux, Knockout Marchand and Fsernand Juendreux. The last named came out on his own account In their engagements so far they have all won VoIaire beat the lightweight, Eddie Newhouse, who once won on foul from Milburn SayIor- Lepreux. featherweight. beat Frankie Neil. Quendreux beat the featherweight to lightweight Frank Thorn in Brisbane, but Thorn claims that a bone was broken in his forearm early in the fight. De Pom thieu is to meet Hughie Mehegan next.
 Gus Christie of American had his first fight in Sydney when he met Mike weight champion of Australia King showed himself a Illustrate boxer and fighter against Christie.
 Jules Dubourg (France) beat the co1ored Australian Cruiser ight Jerry Jerome, in Brisbane Jerome, who in his day was wonderful natural fighter, but never learned any ortho- dox methods, is apparently coming near to the end of his either as a pugilist.
 Myron T. Herrick, American anba.s- fr, fJ-44