The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

troit Tigers, Is making preparations to go to France as a Knights of Co., lumbus Secretary. He will co-oper- ate with Johnny Evers, also a K of C. secretary, in organizing baseball teams among the American soldiers and iu teaching the game to the French
 Jabez White, the oldtime English lightweight, if he Is still in the land of the living, will pass his forty-ffth milestone tomorrow. Old Jabez was born in Birmingham, the English city which in the old days turned out more top-notch pugilists than any other, and began fighting there over twenty years ago. After a few bouts he went to London, and for years he mingled with the best lightweights that came along. putting most of them to sleep. When Spike Sullivan, the scrappy Irish-American fighter, went to Eng land in 1902, he was twice defeated by Jabez. Having cleaned up all the best boys of John Bulls country, Ja- beg decided to take a whack at Uncle Sam's lightweight ring warriors. Eafly in 1905 he landed in New York and proceeded to San Francisco, where he was matched with Jimmy Britt.
 Jabez was a familiar man and a proud parent, and, realizing that ha was tackling a tough customer in James Edward, he decided to take precautions by providing himself with a mascot. This took the form 1 of a pair of baby shoes, which he tied with string in his corner. Britt outpointed Jabez almost from the start, but whenever Jimmy rocked him with hard blow the Britisher 1 looked at the infant shoes, gained re- newed courage therefrom, and fought | doggedly on. White lost the decis- | lon in that bout, but he won the ad- miration and applause of the Califor- i nians by his gam That was the only battle he fought on this side of the pond, with the exception of 2 no-decision bout with Joe GSns sever al years later, when Jabez was trying to pull off comeback. White had another try at the old game about five years ago, when he Was forty years old, and lost the decision tt Bill Johnson in a fifteen roand con. test in his native city.
 Just seventeen years ago today, oc' to'ber 19, 1901, George Dixon an6 Abe Attell fought a tweEty draw at Cripple Creek, Colo. Al, though Dixon had lost the feather weight title to Terry MoGoTern the previous year, and TO championship was involved, the contest was highly
 interesting as marking the rise of 2
 coming champion and a decline O
 the powers of one of the cleveres
 little fellows who ever wore gloves.
 Dixon and Atten fought three time
 that year. Their first meeting, il
 Denver went ten rounds to 8 drav
 and the Cripple Creek bout over tn,
 twenty-round route ended with tn same result About~a week late George and Abe fought a third tim in St. Louis, and on this occasion tn Hebrew triuIn he'd and was given tn decision at the end of fifteen rounds That waa the beginning of the en-
 for poor little Dixon, and within . year thereafter he had been whippet
 by Austin Rico, Eddie Lepny, Bi
 Mackey and Pedlar Palmer.
 l Way back in 1899, on this date Nick Ward won from Jem Baitey on t foul in England. Nick Ward was younger brother of Jem Ward, tn / ex-champion, and of John Wart ] also famous in the ring. Tl:e thre
 brothers were among the greates
 fighters of the period, and Mex 1nigh
 have gained championship honors ex
 ceDt for a yellow streak" whic
 made him quit when his opponent SC
 in a few hard ncks. He won aevers battles by clever tactics, goadjng hi : opponents into striking foul blow 4 and he used this method ovsr Je1
 Bailey and later with Ben Caunt. In
 second meeting with Caun4, for tn
 championship of England, Ben re
 fused to fall for Nick's scheme, an a when thel alter realized that 1t wa y up to him to fight he laid down. Ol n Jem Ward, on that occasion, publicl :. denounced his brother as a cowar o and a disgrace to the family" Mic n continued to figure in sporting circle o for some time, and was chief secon @ to Bendigo when the latter won tt E. title from Ben Caunt.