New Britain herald., 1915-12-29
TED LEWIS BEATS
 RITCHIE EASILY
Englishman's Cleverness Too Much for Former Champion in Ten Live-
 ly Rounds at Garden.

New York, Dec. 29-Ted Lewis of | England gave Willie Ritchie, the former lightweight champion, the l liveliest lacing of his career. in :r | ten-round bout at Madison Square flash of his old-time form in the last round. Ritchie was outgeneraled l and outboxed all the way. At the end the former champions face was cut and puffed from the shower or jabs and swings with which the Eng lishman bewildered the Californian.
 The bout was at the welterweight limit, Ritchie weighing 143 3-4 and Lewis 139 3-4. This weight saw Lewis at his best. His boxing was the prettiest and shiftiest seen in the Garden in many day. The Briton's feet were as fast as his hands, and he danced away from Ritchie's straight-arm attack so fast that the former champion missed time and again.
 Ritchie still retains his aggressive ness. He sailed in all the time, but was met by the left jabs and right hooks from his quick and crafty op- ponent. Lewis shifted his body, first one way and then the other. to avoid
 
 defense, together with Lewis's time ly ducking, caused the greater part of Ritchie's blows to go wild. Ritchie went right at the English man at the start and tapped his jaw with a left jab. Lewis hammer ed short rights and lefts to the body when the boxers clinched, but 1t wasn't until just before the end of the round that Lewis met Ritc1ie coming in and sent his head back with a rattling left swing to the jaw. Lewis started the second round where he left off, and he surprised Ritchie by constantly beating him to the punch, when Willie came boring in with his right fist all set for de livery. Jabbing with his left, Lewis countered with his right, and after the first few rounds both Ritchie's cheeks were bleeding.
 In the fourth round Ritchie, clever boxer though he is, left himself wide open and Lewis shot in a left, fol- lowed by wicked right hook which shook Ritchie from head to foot. Lew is was so sure of his ground in the ] fifth that he fairly leaped at Ritchie when driving him back with a tan l talizing straight left jab. This spectacular work by the agile Briton surprised even his admirers, and he showed a lot more speed than he has ever exhibited in a bout here. His attack approached Ritchie from i all sides of the ring, and Willie was at a loss to interrupt the lightning 1 fast blows. Only occasionally did Ritchie land on his opponent, and l then it was just as the Englishman was dancing out of harms way. There was hardly a mark on Lewis when he left the ring.
 Ritchie was in bad way in the , eighth, when Lewis halted him sud- denly as he rushed in for action The Briton then drove him around the ring until Ritchie must have thought that it was showing boxing gloves. The final session was a whirlwind Lewis continued to show the upper hand in the exchanges and Ritchi.s took stiff medicine in the clinches. Then suddenly Willie woke up and drove Lewis almost off his feet with hard right to the jaw.
 Lewis tried to spring back but Rit- chic was again too quick and plas- tered vicious left to Lewis's face. This surprise slowed up Lewis and made him cautious until he got his bearings again. As the bout ended Lewis was himself and was again peppering Ritchie's bruised and bat tered face. Ritchie, with his addition al weight, has slowed up consider ably. He isn't the boxer that he was as lightweight.