Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
England's Star Boxer Puts Off
Visit Till After War.
CAPTURES BANTAMWElGHT
TITLE FROM HARRISON
Turned Down by Army on Account
of His Size, Is Making Money
in Vaudeville.
BY T. S. ANDREWS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE, July 29.-The expect
ed trip of the wonderful little boxer,
Jimmy Wilde of England. to this coun-
try has been called off for the present
probably until after the end of the war
Wilde. like Les Darcy of Australia, has
received splendid offers to visit the
states and engage in few boxing
matches. but he has finally deferred his
proposed visit until after the war.
Jimmy is the greatest card they have
had in London in many years, even
though he is nothing more than fly
weight, or very small bantamweight.
Although only twenty-four years old.
little Jimmy has wife and four chill
dren and his manager, Ted Lewis,
agrees with the little boxer that it is
best not to make the trip to America
at present. They had intended making
flying trip to New York for just two
matches on a fiat guarantee, but after
defeating the British bantamweig ht
contender for the title-Tommy Har-
rison-in eight rounds the offers came
SO fast that Jimmy could not fill them.
In speaking of Wilde. the London
sporting writer, A. J. Daniels, sends me
the following:
was sorry to learn that Jimmy
Wilde will not visit your shores for
while. as I had looked forward to his
trip as financial success for the little
fellow and a treat to the sporting men.
He is wonderful as a boxer and fighter.
After beating Tommy Harrison for the
championship here, he fought fancy
Lee. the Scotch contender, last Monday
for the fiyweight title and Lord Ions
dale belt, winning easily and defeating
the only man who had ever beaten MN
In a match previously He is Won
derful card here now and is drawing
$4,000 a week at the Comedy Theater
in vaudeville. He is to meet Johnny
Hughes, who visited the states few
years ago, in match the last of July
or early in August. He has been fight
ing at the rate of twice month and
getting no less than $1,000 for every
match. People flock to see him be-
cause they know they will always see
a fight and get run for their money.
They are never fooled and it is sell
dom that he ever fights twice alike. He
changes his style of fighting con-
tinually and il is action all the time
with him. He was refused by the army
because of his undersize, but he surely
is a marvellous fighting machine done
up in a small package"
Several clubs have been after Wilde
to come over and fight Johnny Ertle
and Kid Williams. but it looks as
though they will have to wait some
time. If Jimmy is as great as claimed,
and there is no reason to doubt what
the critics say. a match between the
, little fellow and either Williams or
Ertle would be treat. indeed
Richie Mitchell. the Milwaukee light
weight. has a very promising future,
according to the way some of the bust
ness men of Milwaukee size him uD.
Jess Willard was brought forth and
finally pushed along by a syndicate,
and other stars have been handled in
a similar manner. 1t now is learned
that Milwaukee business men have Of
; fered Richie 10000 cold cash to syndi-
cate his earnings for the next five
years. 1t is rather a novel method Of
handling a boxer in these parts but.
Just the same. the offer has been made
to Richie through his brother and
manager. Billy. The plan is to form
company and issue 100 shares of
stock. each share to represent l per
cent of his earnings. Richie was to
receive thirty shares in addition to
the 10000. If the offer is accepted
the syndicate will select one of it's
number to act as manager for Richie
which might mean the elimination of
Brother Billy as guide. and then offer
Freddy Welsh $4,000 for Champion
ship match over the marathon route
and to a decision. The deal is pending
and may be closed. If il is Billy will
be searching for new meal ticket -
but then William has another member
OF the family who he thinks will
make great fighter. even better than
Richie. and that is Pinkey Mitchell.
who has been acting as sparring part
ner for Richie for some time. That
would be going some for Billy, so
why should he worry now over the
syndicate deal? OF course. il IL goes
through. Billy will get his share just
l. l. . I
materialiZe, as ii would no doubt mea N
q championship battle with the present
Enthusiastically Welsh-and IT is
surely time that one was held
Frank Moran, the Pittsburgh heavy
weight has certainly been very for
tunate boxer. From an obscure posi-
ton In the lighting world he jumped
into a couple Of big matches with Jim
Corey In New York, followed by the
record-breaking purses with Jess Will
lard and Jack Dillon, and is now to
get $4,000 for meeting Carl Morris,
the Oklahoma giant at Tulsa Okla,
Labor day. 1t sure is pretty soft but
no one can blame Franklin for grab
bling off the good things. II he thinks
he Is picking UP soft money in meet
Ing Morris. however. he is likely to be
badly fooled, for the Oklahoma giant
has been improving wonderfully since
he first broke into New York and it
viii not be surprising to hear Of Carl
thing is certaiu-Frank will have a
real battle on his hands.
The Indications now are that Freddy
Welsh will defend his title Of light.
weight champion of the word at Colo
RADIO Springs. Col, before the Millfor
Dollar Club. Labor day, with Charlie
White Of Chicago as his opponent. Tn.
falling through OF the match between
these boys over the ten-round route
at Minneapolis only made the Colora dc
affair the surer Welsh immediately
agreed to the terms for the mattel
during conference at Chicago be.
tween his manager. Harry Pollok. ant
the representative OF the club, Eddie
Pitts; and White. through his man.
ager, Nate Lewis, also agreed there
being little to argue over except tho
percentage or straight purse which
was practically agreed 20 before going
Into session. The weight is to be IL:
At O'Clock. the same as Welsh ant
Willie Richie fought at, or rather al
o'clock weighing, to be correct Re.
gaTding the Minneapolis mix-up Harr,
Pollok said to the writer:
When I arrived in Minneapolis som.
parties advised me to be careful about