The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-12-28
Kid williams, Nearing Thirty, Seeks
Tito Again.

Kid williams, Nearing Thirty, Seeks
Tito Again.
Kid Williams. former bantamweight
champion. though nearly so years old.
has been staging n remarkable come
back. and Is now thinking OF making an
attemr, to regain the title IN his class
by going after Joe Lynch. the new wear
or Of the crown. who once stopped VIII
, lialus Asked what was the hardest
tght Of his career, WilliamssRid: We'll
! can only say they were all hard me
! easiest tlght | had was. when l took
, the bantamweight championship from
Johnny COuiOn. Then | think | was
nearing my crest while Johnny was I'M
doubtedly on the downward grade. Prev
i0us 10 that contest and ever since every
time I entered the ring I was prepared
for hard fight. And never was l dis
appointed Eddie Campi. the little TEL
low from the Pacific coast. who you re-
member. was Killed In hunting ac-
cident a few years ago, was the hardest
man for ME 70 beat. l was given n
stern fight IN California and shortly
after that We met again IN another
marathon grind and that time knocked
him out. But when l get 10 thinking
what my hardest test was, ] no sooner
decide on one than some other foe crops
up. Louisiana, the Philadelphia lad
always gave me trouble: so did frankie
Conway and Frankie Bradley. who
fought around philadelphia few years
ago Knockout Joe ODonnell WAS Il
tough man for me TO work on. l guess
the fans still remember that l put up 4
! pretty good fight with Johnny klIbane,
who was then at his very best. l think
the toughest, gamest and most enduring
nphter ever glared at across the ring
! WAS Charlie I.edouX, that great little
French bearcat, whom fought In Bal
timore last week. And last week Lc-
doux was just as tough and as game
rs he was seven or eight years ago
when 7 first met him. Last weeks was
our third clash and never once during
those nights was given rest or felt
that I was having things easy.
knocked him out in California just be-
fore tho big war broke out and That
yas n terrible struggle. l attribute all
nv successes to clean living. I have al
ways tried 10 follow the straight una
narrow path, and think I have sue
ceeded, otherwise I wouldn't be able TO
carry on as we'll as think l am. Pos
| bordering on 80 years OF age. I've pass
ed the twenty-nInth milestone but feel
"a Young as ever and will go on just
as long as I can satisfy the puoilc'
Since his comeback Williams mas oe-
! reated Patsy Johnson. Johnny Ntle'
; Sammy Sandow. Earl Puwenr' Charlie
! I,edoux and Battling Leonard and STOP
pod Dutch Brandt for the latters only
! knockout defeat In his long ring career
III. "HeaytoS" Never Como Back.
While there are several cases OF cham
p.ons Coming back" heavyweight
| once dethroned has never had that goo"
fortune This IS another reason why
th4 proposed Wnard-Dcmpsey night
! should not be held. An eastern expert
! says the most prominent case OF n
! comeback IN title bout after oelnR
| knocked out Is that Of Stanley Ketchell,
who, after being knocked out by Billy
| Papke IN ~ rounds al Los Angeles on
September Z. 1908, came back two
| months later and knocked out Papke IN
: II rounds. Ketchell then again turned
the trick on Papke in 20 rounds at Col
ma. Cal. on July S, 1903. These bouts
were for tho middlewe!Eht crown.
IN the wslterweight division you md
b
| Matthews In Is rounds at Detroit. on
October Is, 1900. and then regained II
from Matthews In 10 rounds by scoting
! n knockout on May "a, 1901. at Toronto
| In the heavyweight division. however.
! history fails to record the names or de-
posed champions Of modern times re-
gaining their title from their successful
! opponents.
! Fitzs!mmons defeated James J. Cor.
! bett in n championship bout March II
| 1897. az Carson City. New.
After Jim Jeffries won the champion
! ship by defeating Bob FitzsImmons. ut
! Concy Island, in II rounds. Fitz at
! tempted comeback on July rs. 1902
! in San Francisco but again was knocked
out ny Jeffr!es this time In eight
! rounds.
! Then there is the case Of Jim Corbett
who lost the title to TItzsimmons on
| March u. 1897. which. by the way. Will
! be "a years on the night Of the Willard
! Dempsey fight Corhett, on August IA,
| 1903, attempted 10 regain the champion
! ship, but was knocked out. by Jeffrics in
! 10 rounds. In the lightweight class you
! fnd Frank Erne retaining the title in his
bout with Joe Cans by winning In !?
! rounds in this city on May %. 1900. only
! 10 be Knocked cold by Cans In a return
| bout At Fort Erie on May -. 1902. In
| on> round.
Erne also figured In O similar situa-
! ton in the reatherwe;Eht class, when
: Erne defeated Dixon in 20 rounds IN this
| city November q. 1895. and on March
! "a 1897. IN n return bout here Dixon
! defea ted E;rne IN Is rounds.
/ THE PREcARIoUs ERA Is PAST
The football season now IN the dusty
! past Is the most preCnr!ous period IN
! the lives OF sport writer's. In writing
; OF the various schools. well represent
! ed by sound and thinking alumni. tho
| sport scribe finds himself in tho same
! nx as the neutral who views babe:
| II ne says II looks like papa. mamma
! gets angry. and II he. but why run over
! tho other part OF II. In Creek Latin.
in terms OF law and medicine. in tho
vernacular Of the dentists, in tho vers"
Of the spring poets. the snort writer
e gets hIs II he raps dear old Alma Mater
, Nv mail he IS convinced that black
, smIthIng would have been legs trytn;
| and that the world In general would b"
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