The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03
u. S. BOXERS TO Be
TESTED IN LONDON
Army and Navy Ring Carnival
Likely to Furnish Stir
ring Bouts.
MOORE MAY MEET WILDE
By CROSS COUNTER.


II the members Of the United states
Army and Navy boxing team which u
slated to go to London next month ano
contest with the leading ringsters OF the
British army and navy are under the
impression they will make short work
OF their opponents II may be as well Tor
the Americans to revise their estimates.
There Ii one little man over there
who will be quite apt to vanquish three
holds the fiyweight worlds title. the
limit OF which class IL 113 pounds, mas
not begrudged ten or fifteen pounds 70
opponents in England, and already mas
beaten challengers from three classes.
Wilde has stopped two OF the leading
flyweights Of America-Johnny Rosner
and Young Zulu Kid.
Pal Moore Of Memphis. who claims 20
be able to make the English hyweight
limit and now Is q member OF the navy
hopes to meet the wonderful little Welsh
man. There is small doubt that Wide
can defeat Moore at either the hyweight
limit Of 112 or the bantam of 11S pounds.
Pete Herman would perhaps give Wilde
tough battle at 120 pounds, with the
chances in favor of the Welshman COM
ing out on top.
Herman in a bout with the English
bantam champion, fancy Lee, would
have an excellent chance of winning.
Able Lightweights.
Richie Mitchell. the Milwaukee light
weight, is<to go across, and he should
be able to take care Of anything In that
division on the other side Of the pond. II
Joe yelling, who In in the navy. were
sent he certainly would hold the English
men safe. There ara no featherweights
of class in the United States army oy
navy, and the class in England Is not
strong, so 1t would be a toss up In that
division.
II Criqui. the French featherweight-
were to compete he might carry OF the
honors.
In the weiter and middle divisions Che
Americans should hold their own. and II
Bill Brennan OF Chicago. now at Pelham
Bay represents the heavyweight division
he should Not have much trouble in dis
posing Of Bombardier Wells, who holds
the English title. 3.
II Carpenter takes q hand In the dis
pute 1t might be difficult for Brennan
to report home with a cleap score.
The contestants are to box for trophies
donated by the King. The previous
event of this sort was in 1909. when
bouts in honor of the anniversary OF the
| coronation Of King Edward were held
in the National Sporting Club of London.
Owing to the sudden illness of che
hlnB Ine DOutS WeTo tbli-
ure. A popularity OF the contests was
that most of the boxers came from Amer
| lea Gus Rubin boxed Tom Sharkey
and stopped the sailor in eleven rounds.
| Tommy Ryan boxed Johnny German,
New York middleweight, and stopped him
! in three rounds A number of amateur
American boxers also attended and some
of them competed.
Chilly Fight.
! Reference to Ryan brings recolleet4on
OF fight under the most singular con-
ditons in the history of pugilism. 1t
was 1889, early In Ryan's career. when
/ he was a lightweight, that he was
/ matched with Canadian named Martin
I Dunn. The contest. which was with
| skin gloves. was fought near Detroit,
which Ryan made his headquarters in
( those days, and the ring was pitched in
/ an ice house! Not only this, but there
was a large quantity of ice stored in
the building. The ring occupied the only
! open space in the structure and the spec
tators took comfortable seats on mating
spread over the ice blocks.
! Owing to the dsnclination of tho po-
| lice to permit boxing the promoters Sc
/ lected the ice house as place not likely
| to be raided by the guardians OF the
peace II goes without saying that tho
/ lighters fought with great GOODNESS, and
/ the spectators maintained an Icy silence
| during the combat. Ryan won in the
ninth round by cold knockout.
! In commenting on the various holds
used by wrestlers a student of the Crap
pling game says:
''The head scissors has been success
fully developed by Stranger Lewis, ono
Of the best of modern wrestlers
! THE zoe hold was invented by Frank
Gotch, who used 1t successfully for many
| years"
With the exception that Lewis ola not
/ develop the head scissors and that Earl
I Caddock, the present champion, who Is
I overseas, employed It with great success
! the statement is correct II Is true that
Lewis at times used the head scissors,
which Is applied by locking the legs
about the victims head and putting on
| pressure, but he never had any special
success with 1t. The hold that kewis
perfected was the flying head lock- This
consists in getting the victims head in
chancery and putting on pressure by
! squeezing the skull with the arm against
/ the side of the body
( As to Gotch inyenting the toe hold,
that Is a fallacy. The toe hold was in
vented before Gotch was out of swad
ding clothes. but he employed II with
more success than any other grappler,
ancient or modern.