The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-19
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AHNFNs1-EA n HARAhAa F ACK BRETON will make a. vel h terweight champion who will y elevate that division - anu how sadly In need of elevation Is that class. The 142-45 pounders have been a poor lot, but with such an active leader as Brltton in command things Should be more interesting.
 Ted Kid Lewis never vas popular with boxing fans. Everybody admir- ed his fighting, but no one seemed to care for Lewis personally. Not even those with whom he rubbed elbows daily cared anything about him; yet all admitted he was real tighter. Whether this i'll feeling was brought on through some trick play ed by the Britisher the writer cannot say, but it seemed that he has few friends among boxers and boxing managers, anyway.
 Lewis never was a spendthrIft and never took the other fellows word for anything. They tell all sorts of stories about his ways, but as the writer can not verify them they cant be pub lished in this column. One thing is certain, however, and that Is that Lewis himself was as happy us any one to have the championship fall into Brlttons hands.
 A LTHOUGH LEWIS was Brittor's bitterest rival he had a lot of re- spect for the Chtcagoan. This the writer knows to be a fact. Last sum mer, after the Ted Kid Lewis Benny Leonard fight, the writer, together with Dan Morgan, Charley Harvey, Ted Kid Lewis, Vincent Treanor, Walter St. Denis. Dan Lyons. Tom Magner of this city and New Jersey Boxing Commissioner John Smith, was in @ Newark restaurant.
 Anybody who knows Dan Morgan has heard that pilot talk for hours on the ability of Britton. So Jhat night 1t was no surprise to hear Dan praise his protege. Dan spared no superlatiyes, for Dan Is the begg fighter in the world" he said.
 Then broke in Ted Kid: "yes. and I'll tell the world that he is the hard est hitting man I've ever met"
 Thanks said Dan, "tLat's the way to talk
 In another column in this section Battling Levinsky. who is intimately acquainted with Jack Brittou, being his stablemate, cities 8 number of in teres+ing instances pointing out the respect the Chicagoan enjoys among boxers here.
 elE REED FULTON Retired From
 Ring" - Newspaper headline We always were under the impress sion that 1t was Jack Dempsey who retired Fred Fulton from the ring. But Fulton isn't the only one boxing can well afford to loss,
 WB WONDER what has happened " to dat there black man" Jack Johnson. Haven't heard anything from him in thr-e days. Is il possible that he is preparing another state ment "confessing'' that his first "con- fession" was pure bunk? ZBTsz1O and strangIe1 w Lewis are billed 70 wrestIe for the heavyweight wrestling champion ship in New Y orlS on Friday night. This match has been billed by Pro noter Jack Curley as "the champion ship el .minatIon match" Incidently, Jack Curley, who manages ZbyszSo is advertising the husky Pole as the worlds champion.
 Since Curley's press agent got busy the newspapers have been using a-ti- cles in which WIadek has been char acterized as the "champion." So far as we know and so far as the record books show Zbyszko has no moro right than Lewis to say that he is champion.
 Sergt Caddock. now with tho A r. F. in Germany, Is the champion. A fictitious report-prohably the work of some selfish wre~tline promoter. reached this country that Caddock had retired. This is not so. The sol die~ has said so in letters written 10 newspapermen and friends. And no matter who wins Fridays match in tlle Garden America will never Tor- get it's soldier -wrestler-and CHAM PION HEAVY WEIGHT WR ESTLErR OF THE WORLD.
 As for Lewis and Zbyszlyo both are logical copteude7s for the champion ship And their match Friday is simp- ly an elimination arair-not for any worlds championship.
 c E1 THAT Charley is up to hts , old tricks again. Immediately I eV blti IL3W4S, WHO WdS LBIEeu into Harvsy's stable, was stopped by Jack Britton the other night, Charley wired the following to the news papers:
 Ted Kid Lewis was sick be-
 fore entering the ring, but did
 not want to disappCint the fans.
 He was weak in the sixth round
 and collapsed in the ninth, un-
 able to go any further"
 Which is Charley's way of limit ting that Jack Britton won beyond 8 doubt.
 D TTLING LEVINsKY thinks Jack U Johnson the best "batt1er that ever wore a glove" This assertion the Battler made yesterday during a friendly discussion about modern boxers. Bat believes that Jack ism being given square deal" Sorry. we can't agree with you, Barney.