El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-06
VETERAN FEATHERWE|GHT IS NOW
MEMBER Of PENN. SIGNAL CORPS
"Jiggy' Hunt Recalls Many Battles of Two Decades
Ago; Fought George Dixon Twice in One Year;
Johnny Newton Says That He VIII Set a Pace
With Simpson To Equal Muskopf- Cose
BY ssBECK.v
TTENTIoN. Yon old time

4 TTENTIONi You old time fight
"A fansl How many Of you remem-
L - Der the days when George Dixon
was the king pin Of the feather
weights2 Tales Of old time fights were
brought back to memory few days
ago when one OF the scrappers from
the Pennsylvania camp brought in the
news that "Jiggy'' Hunt was a member
Of the Pennsylvania Signal corps. On
request, Hunt dropped in at The Herald
office when he had leave on Thursday
evening and there was fanfest OF
old time fight lore
But he isn't called "Jiggy" now. If
YOU please Not by a whole lot 1t IS
NJ J. Hunt. proud father u two boys
and girl, possessor OF a flne nome
in Pittsburg and a man of real stand
ing in his home community For
"Jiggy' Hunt has prospered while many
other old time boxers followed the
white lights too often and are now
Hunt Started in 1902.
Away back in 1902, Hunt made his
first appearance in the ring when ne
went up against George Dixon, then
touring the country and offering SIS
for any featherweight who could stay
four rounds with him That SO looked
good to Hunt and, like Kelly, he took
a chance Dixon knocked out two
teeth but Hunt was there at the end
Of the fourth round, So richer than
when he had entered the ring
That gave the youngster an idea that
he would be a fighter. That ne had
the goods was soon evident His pc
culiar foOtwOrk won him the nickname
OF "Jiggy" and IS "Jiggy' Hunt he had
fights all over the east Within year,
he fought Dixon twice.
Cousin Of Jack SISelIy.
Hunt comes Of a real fighting family
His cousin, Jack Sicily, now OF Nonk-
ers. NJ Y, was one Of the star feather
weights OF the ring a couple OF de-
cades back A nephew IS now train
er Of boxers in New York and mas
been in charge of Frank Morsn's work
With such 1ighung record, II IS
small wonder that Hunt still hankers
for the ring. While the Pennsyivan-
ians have been at Camp Stewart, he
has been training some youngsters ana
he has an idea that Terry Murphy, OF
the 18th Pennsylvania infantry IS a
real conner as a middleWeight- Hunt
would like TO see Murphy get a chance
in the preliminaries at Camp Cotton
on the night Of October 16 with some
pretty fair mixer. He says that the
boy viii make good if the matchmak-
ers do not pick too tough proposition
for his first bout.
But say, just watch for the real
old time tanning bee when Hunt meets
Australian Billy Smith. Both these
men are veterans Of the ring and lneir
tales go back too far for the writer
the bouts of 20 years ago and the
tongues will sure wag when they get
together
Newton Trains Hard
Johnny Newton drifted into the sport
room on Wednesday evening for a short
talk Johns face bears evidence OF I
the hard work his sparrlng partners !
are giving him but he says that he IS 4
leaving nothing undOne TO be in prop (
er condition for his bout at Camp Cot /
ton on Monday evening october 10, Z
with Johnny Simpson. the crack well :
terweight Of the 23rd infantry
Newton is q youngster but he IS no I
no kid at the ring game He has been 4
fighting around Philadelphia, Pitts !
burg. Akron. CLEVELAND and other east /
srn cities. He has fought and beaten 4
many men who are star cards IN the ]