The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-17
Esng glishnen Demand Those Odds Memphis Lad Al ready Has Decision Over British Charpion-Box- ing News.
By ROGER. TERRI.

By ROGEzR TERRI.
 With both boys in condition, ac-
 cording to the latest cable reports,
 everything bids fair to the making of
 pugtlistic history In London tonight
 when Pal Moore. the crack bantam
 weight from Memphis, Tenn, meets
 Jimmy Wilde, the English flyweight
 champion, in a, 2O-round bout. To all
 appearances this bout will develop
 into the biggest pugilistic event of
 the European season.
 This will be their second bout Of
 the year. While the other side with Uncle Sam's real fighting boys, Pal Moore defeated the English champion However, there have been cries of "fluke" from the English men, hence the second match. Pa Moore has trained faithfully for this battle and has set his mind anl all in tentions on winning. A victory to-
 night for the American will wipe out whatever doubt there was as to his supremacy.
 Cablegrams from the other side conveyed the inforamtion that Eng lishmen are asking for ' to odds Yet they contend that Wilde is too shrewd and too clever a battler to , he beaten by the Southerner. Ameri- cans who are travelling England and members of the American colony in London are taking up all the money there is in sight.
 Pal Moore left this country for the other side last month and since his arrival there has been doing q lot of hard work. His manager assured his American friends that Pa1 will not only defeat the English chap, but beat him via the knocRout route. The English lad is exceedingly clever and has trimmed everything his weight there, but take it from Joe Lynch, | who was robbed of a decision over him. there are a lot of boys here far tougher and cleverer than Wilde. Moore when he left this country | last month expressed extreme conf | dence. He said to a reporter; "I am going to England, firmly convinced and satisfied that I can defeat Jimmy Wilde. I am not over confident, but something seems to tell
 me that I will subject him to an even more severe punishment that I gave him when we first met.
 English writers in their write-ups agreed with the referee and praised me- but for some reason or other since my absence from the other l sioe there has been some question as | to the status of that victory. They l have branded 1t as 9 fluke. They | have said that I am not in Wilde's | class and that when I met him the l Englishman was not in good condi 1 ton. That is not so, for the English sport writers all announced on the l day before the bout that Wilde was l in best shape.'
 q will take it easy for week or l hut of "a I T
 will take precautions not to injure 1 myself, for there is no one in the l world who wants to meet Jimmy 1 Wilde worse than I do-and I know
 for I have met and defeated him | once before. And I'll do 1t again. There isn't anything unusual about
 him. He is simply a small fellow,
 slippery, but full of pep.''
 1 George Chaney, the veteran Bal l tin-ore boxer, has quit the ring. Ac
 cording to a news item that appeared | in a. Philadelphia newspaper George 1 announced, after he was stopped by Joe Tiplitz in the Quakertown on l Monday night, that he would retire | for good. George has been having
 a lot of hard luck, having been stopped by Lew Tender about three weeks ago. He has made a lot of ! money III the ring and saved most or | it, so that he will not be in em- | barrassing position.
 l By the way, the two conquerors
 og George Clancy. Joe Tirplitz Of l New York and Lew Tender of Phil 1 adelphia will meet again in a six | rounder at the National League base
 ball park, August 8. This will give
 both men, who are exceedingly pop
 ular in Philadelphia, plenty of time
 in which to prepare themselves for | the test.
 Having been doublecrossed by | those for whom he made money Frankie Britt, the New Bedford
 featherweight, according to word re-
 ceived at this office today, will leave Massachusetts for two three | months and spend his time in New l Orleans. There on Monday, July 2S, l at an open air show he will tackle | Pal Moran of New Orleans in 15-' ] round bout to a decision.
 Sammy Driver of this city, who has 1 loomed up as one of the leading box ing managers of the country is re-
 ceiving offers galore for the services l of his two leading boxers. Larry Will i Hams, the light heavyweight, and