The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

One of the biggest tournaments in ed by the Knights of Columbus, the contests for championships to take place in Paris for the entertainment of Uncle Sam's soldiers, sailors, ma rines and aviators. Belts will be awarded by the Knights of Colum- Boxing is one of our best rHa ap6t39ss's 6tt3ss. William P. Larkin, Director of Knights of Columbus Overseas Activ- ities, recently declared The Unit ed States was quick to see the value of boxing as a medium of physical exercise for the contestants and for the entertainment of our fighting forces, and the teaching of the man ly art to all the boys In the service did as much as any one thing to help get them in the trim that won the war in record time" The K of C. strongly endorses boxing.
 Lew Tender, the crack lightweight of~ Philadelphia, who fights Rockey Kahsas, the Buffalo battIer, a ten round bout at the Oriole A. c. of Buffalo on New Years afternoon, fought twenty battles during the present year. Out of those contests Tender .realized the large sum of $2S,667.65. The largest sum he made out of one fight was S4,0O0, which he received for boxing George Clancy of Baltimore a six-round no-decision bout at the National A. c. of Phila- delphia on September IS. The next largest was s3,335 for boxing Patsey Cline in the same city on July 18.
 Frankie Burns of Jersey City, the good little fighter and Matty Herbert of New York, former amateur ban tamweight, have just been matched to meet in the main event of eight rounds at special boxing show to be held at the Armory A. A of Jersey City on New Years afternoon. This will be the first time the lads have fought. Herbert has boxed with good success up through the state and he has been anxious to get on a at 122 pounds, weighing in at the ringside.
 Ffstic crowns rested quite sedately in cotton batting during 1918, since most of the pugilistic crowned heads were up 9t war work of some sort. Champions engaged in tilts now and then, but as none of the bouts were in the nature of championship affairs, not a single title went astray. In that respect it was rather a remark able year.
 The nearest thing to a champion- ship affair came with the meeting of Ted Lewis and Benny Leonard at Newark N. J. One the weIterweight king and the other the lightweight champion; the bout promised of ev- erythfng in thrills, but the men swa D. ped punches in such a cautious man. ner' that their respective crowns were not even thumbed, much less dented
 But the boxers did their "bit' with a vengeance. Almost to a man, they were engaged in the business of train ing Uncle Sam's citizen fighters the fine points of personal encounter, and to their untirins efforts much of the rredit for our army's splendid effici- hncy is due. When the enemy met San American he met man who Y could stand, lead. block and drive with fist or bayonet. Boxing play ed tremendous part in our efforts ir the war. and the army officials were the first to sre' so.
 Though no new champion dropped in on boxing, one man did set ton gues wagging. That man was Jack Dempsey. He came with Diff and bang. In fourteen fights he has made such strides that now he is the only one mentioned in regard to a bout with Jess Willard.
 His most startling achievement dur ing the year was the knocking out of big Fred Fulton at Harrison, N. J Up to that point Fulton held the po- sition that Dempsey now commands the real heavyweight runner-up. A remarkable feature of Dempsey's win over Fulton was the suddenness with which victory came. Fulton had hardly got his hands in position be- fore he was floored in his own corner for the full count.
 Dempseys knack of droppins I,s victims in single roufd was evid-