The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-25
WHITE 24 TO-DAY
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 Charles Anchow4tz, who uses let terheads on which 1t is stated that he is ''Iightweight champion of the world" will pass his tWenty-fotITCh milestone today, having been born March 25, 1891 MT Anchowitz. ysunderstaud me, AIaWrusss is just the family name of the well known box-fi ghter who answ CTS to the ring n1onaker of Charlie White. Even if White should make good his boast and annex the lightweight tit1e-and his showing against Freddie Welsh tn Milwaukee last month was not exact Iy promIstng-there would not be a lot of nutrfment in it for AfaerIcanEs as Charlie Is a native of Engand. He was born in Iziverpool. but when, he was youngster. his paternal ances- emigrate to America with his family of seven.
 The Anehowitz elan is Of HebreW descent, and a scrappier family it would be hard to find. Four of the brothers have had experience In the ring game. and although Charlie is the king-pin of the bunch, his broth CTS William and John have made fair reputaions for thenlselyes William scraps under the name Of Bi3ly VEas- ner. and John appears on the bills ga Jack White.
 1.s-A hundred battles since he made hia start in 1908, but the hardest fight of his career was against the ''Whlts plague When he was in his early teens Charlie had to get out and hustle a job to help support the Anchowitz family, which had settled in Chicago. and he landed in a print ing ofIlce at a salary of three bones per Having absorbed a lot Of in spiratorfal literature written by pIutocrats who explained how they had won their millions by industry honesty and fruga1ity, the young Hebrew toiled like a galley slave Iu his case it didn't work out according to Hoyle,s however, for in a year or 1.-two he found himself sick and threat ened with tuberculosis. with not enough money saved to buy one of advertised by the bargain counter un- dertakers.
 Charlie interv5ewed a t'doc and the M D. told him he would have to quit work and go to the mountains for a few years, eat expensive food cellent advice, no doubt, but the family fortune Of the Anchowitzss was not sufficient to stand the strain Then the lighting spirit of the little Jew came to the top. He decided to give the Grim Reaper a run for hin money ana e2ISESQ. Ss At first he had to take the Eghtest of exercises, but he gradually gained in strength, and after 2 few months the hectic flush of the Hunger gave way to the bloom of health in bis checks. Then he began to put on the gloves with the other boys. At first he was just a chopping block and bis sorbs were perpetually discolored. but after a time he began to return the blows he had received with Interest He showed such gameness and nat ural ability that a boxer who ire quented the gym gave him few lessons, and when he was only fifteen Charlie was a ful1-f1edged box-fight- l. CT. His enthusiasm for the game aroused the interest of his brothers, and pretty soon the whole AnchosVitz family were fight fans
 When White began boxing he weighed only ninety pounds, but he has since travelled through the ban tam and featherWeight divisions and become a fu1I-fledged nghtWeiB Bht- His first defeat was in 1909, when he lost to Abe Attell, and the next year he was defeated by Danny Webster at Vernon. Later he lost to Jo5 Mandot and Jack Britton, but de- feated many other good men, and last May he got into the fimehght by out pointing Willie Ritchie, who was then champion, in a ten-round bout iu Milwaukee. White claimed the light weight title after that bout, althopgh he only received a newspapsr deci- sion. Tn his bout with Freddie Welsh in Milwaukee last month White was clearly outclassed, in the opinion nf a majority of the critics