The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

Another Canadian of color is the man who is best entitled to the heavy weight cham piohship of the world Sam Langford. The .tBostoh Tar Baby" as he is now called. is also 8 Nova Seotian, having been born at Weymouth in 1886.
 George Godfrey, ssOld Choco1ate,. was another famous pugilistc product though he weighed only ITO pounds, Godfrey was a terror to some of the best of the heavyweights. He. con ducted a boxing school in Boston af- ter quitting the ring, and died in 1901
 There have been three French-Ca- nadian champions in recent ring his- tory-George Lavigne, George La blanche and Tommy Burns. Kid La yigne. the hero of many hafd-fougFt contests and one of the best of the lightweight champions, was born in Saginaw, Mieh., but his parents were Canadians of French descent.
 George Iablanche, '*the Marine was born in Quebec, but served in Uncle Sam's Marine Corps before he started his ring career. He was the inventor of the famous pivot b1ow,'' now barred, with which he defeated Jack Dempsey at San Francisco a quarter of a century ago. and became for a time the mid d1eweight cham pion, of the world.
 Tommy Burns. the ex~heavyweig champion, was born in Hanover, Ont, and his real name is Noah Brusso.. After losing the title to Jack John son, Burns settled in Calgary and ern- parked in the clothing business. He promoted the ill-fated McCarty-PeI- key battle at Calgary, in which Me Carty was killed, and later tried un- successfully to make a, champion out of PeIkey. The latter was born at Chatham, Ont, and is of F'rench-Ca- nadian and Irish descent.
 Another great F'rench-Canadian was Johnny LaVack, native of Montreal, who was one of the greatest of feath- erWeights twenty years ago I4aV ack fought draws with George Siddons. So11y Smith, TornIHy Dinon and Aus tra1ian Billy Murphy.
 Many other Canadians have been prominent as boxers. Harry Tenny, who died in 1906 after bout with Frankie Neil in San Francisco, was an excellent bantam. Te same year an other Canadian, Mike Ward, of Sar- mia, Ont, died after a bouth with Harry Lewis, at Grand Rapids, Mich. Eddie Connolly, who was born at St. John, N. B., was another good light weight He fought a draw with Dick Burge, the English champion, but was whipped by Kid Lavigne.
 Joe Lamar was a good heavyweight a quarter of a century ago. Like Godfrey, he was born in Prince Ed ward Island. He fought two draws with Godfrey, but was knocked out in a third contest with .sO1d Choco- late''
 s.sandy.' Ferguson, who was born in Moncton, N. B., was a promising heavyweight few years ago.. He defeated Joe Jeanette on one occasion, and fought a draw with Sam Lang ford, but was defeated by Jack John son.
 Billy AAcKinnon, the middIeweight boxer, was born in Char1ottetown. Prince Edward Island. Kid Yoakun, the lightweight, had F'rench-Canadian parents but was born in Buffalo. Pat sy Drouillard is another F'rench-Ca- nadian lightweight, a native of Wind sor, Ont. Gilbert Gallant, who has been coming to the front rapidly of late, also boasts Canadian birth and French blood
 Johnny Cou1on, the former king Of the bantams, was born in Toronto, and is of French and Irish ancestry. Billy Weeks, Frankie Fleming, Steamboat BiIP Scott, Joe Bayley and many other Canadians have made fairly good records in the ring.
 If wars were fought with fists which would be a sensible and enter taining method--Canadian ought to prove highly useful.