Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-08
ABOUT BROTHER !.
ACTS IN BOXING:
Lewis and Britton, Dillon and
Chip, Two Sans and Joe Hold
Relationship Act" HonorS

SPTS ABOUT BROTHER .Uf:
Ladies and gentlemen. The first act
in the program tonight will be the fa-
nous brother act, starring JACK Brlt-
ton and Ted Kid Lewis.
That would be an excellent way to
introduce this pair when they meet
again. Ted and Jack, the Hall Room
Boys of the boxing game, have met
no less than IL times in the last threeI
years and the only thing which caI9
prevent thew from meeting IL mor9
times is Lewis fear that Jack may o%
able to grab his welterweight crown'
which he won from Jack and Whlcn
he prizes next to his right eye.
It was in March, 1915, when this
ubiquitous pair first hooked up. This
was before Britton decided to claim
the welterweight championship ana
when Ted first came under the man
agement of Jimmie Johnson. The rec
vociferously denied by Dumb Dan
| Morgan, Jacks manager.
"No Decision Again."
During the same year they hooked
I'D another 10-round affair, no de-
cision being given.
The meal ticket kids met five times
in 1916 three of the affairs being OF
the 1o-round no-declsion variety daois;ans anu
two going to Britton on decisions.
These decisions were vociferously OBJ
jected to by Manager Jimmie Johnson:
In 1917 they met four times and
both managers were busy denying
as each was credited with loss ana
two were without decisions. In their
last meeting Britton lost his title.
With brotherlv consideration the
brother act divided it's battles evenly.
Britton won three, Lewis won three
and six were no-decision affairs.
| Chip-Dillon.
Another famous brother act of tho
ring was between George Chip and
Jack Dillon. Whether Chip could
| ever have knocked out Dillon or Dill
lon Chip will never be known. Neither
of them ever did achieve a knockouI
against the other and neither wanted
to- Each was too good a meal ticket
for the other. When Chip began to
get hungry he would look up his man.
ager, Jimmie Dime, and say, "JiH-
mic. had to eat beef stew today;
| better match me up with Dillon so
can have chicken" Then Dime would
write letter to a promoter at Butte
or Keokuk and tell how Chip wanted
to get even with Jack for biting his
ear in their last fight week earlier.
The manager would advertise "grudge
fight and the nickles would pour In.
Jack and Chip would both go on q
chicken diet until the next week.
This pair met 10 times, nine being
no-decision romps and one a draw.
Oh Those 'TThems."
But far and away beyond the
brother acts of either of these pairs
was the triplet act of the two Sans
and Joe.
Sam Langford, Sam McVey and Joe
Jeanette were not so brotherly as
lDillon and Chip or Lewis and Dillon.
Occasionally they would forget them
selves and pull real, for sure knock
out. Ted and George and the two
Jacks never did anything like that.
Once Joe jeanette went so far as to
knock out McVey in 40 rounds Think
of that.
The two Sans have fought no less
than IA times. Langford has the
edge, having won four, lost two and
engaged in four draws and four no.
decision fights.
Langford and Jeanette have fought
Is times with Langford at the long
end with five wins, three defeats, two
draws and the rest no-decision bouts.
McVey and jeanette have sort of
fallen down on the job. The have
only fought five times, each winning
one and the others being without deci-
sions.