The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-13

and made the Eng1ishman a kat offer of $1,000 to call it a draw Charley snapped at the offer.
 Molineaux a negro. was really the
 first American heavy to invade England. He whipped all his op- pOnents with ease until he met the famous Tom Cribb. NoIIneaux led in the early rounds but Cribbs sta nina was the better and he triumph ed after 40 desperate rounds. Later they fought again and Cribbs won quite handi-Y this time.
 Charley Freeman, The American Giant" was the first Yankee heavy to win the worlds championship. Freeman was a circus acrobat in this country despite the fact that he was nearly seven feet tall and weighed 300 pounds. Ben Count, a famous English fighter. took him across the water where he whipped everyone in sight winding up with Bill Perry, '"The Tipton Slasher," then champion of England. Freeman and Perry fought in December, 1842, the bout lasting two hours and three minutes. l Three different rings were used and the mill starting on Dec. II, was re- 1 sumed on the 18th and concluded on the goth. Freeman became a
 
 couple of years later from the effects of wild dissipation. Count paid his funeral expenses, Freeman being ''broke" at the time of his death.
 John c. Heenan, the American l champion, invaded England in 1860 and met Tom Savers, the marvellous English titlehOlder. for the foremost honor of the ring after two hours and 20 minutes of bruising - 40 rounds, London Prize Ring Rules a crowd of toughs broke into the ring to save their bets. Both Savers and the American were badly beaten. Some accounts gave Heenan the bet ter of it while others claimed the American was so badly blinded he had to be led away from the battle 1 ground. Heenan challenged Savers 1 to another fight but the offer was refused, Savers retiring from the ring.
 Jim Jeffries, once had an interest ] ing flight" in London. Jeff was pre- pairing for his fight with Sharkey at i the time. Jack Scales called himself 1 the English champion then and an enterprising French promoter got Jeff and Scales into the ring flor the l worlds championship" Scales had l been Jeffs sparring partner in vari- 1 ous London music halls and agreed i to meet Jeff for a fair-sized losers | purse. The Big Fellow allowed Scales ! to drift along quite easily for three l rounds. In the fourth Jeff forgot i himself and f1oored Scales a few times. After the last knock down l Scales addressed the crowd as fol-
 lows: "'Ees habsolutely too bally 1 big for me. 'E can lave the cham | pionship of Hinglandn' Jeffries didn't 1 even bother to put the bout on his f record.
 Jack O'Brien once cleaned up all l the meagre opposition on the other i side while Kid Mccoy, long past his ] prime, managed to win through his i unparalleled cunning. Tommy | Burns upheld the tradition of sue l cessfuI American invasion when he 1 knocked out Gunner Mofr and won 1 the worlds championship in 1907. Burns at first wasn't accorded a i square deal by the British public be- i cause they thought the clever Cana l dian should have called himself an Tommy, however, squared himself 1 by the businessIike- manner in which
 he disposed of "the Gunner" Later
 he broke bread with the nobility in
 ''Lunnon.''
 Frank Moran ran up quite a knock | out record abroad, tumbling amongst 1 others the much bombarded Bom- | bardier Wells. Gunboat was the i last American heavy to get into dtfff- l entities abroad. Smith had Georges