The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1921-01-08
Have Ring and War Records
Yards Long On Other Side of
Pond and Expects to Make
Our Boys Step Lively.

boxing tournament to be conducted by
the International Sporting club here
next month, will begin active training
this month, will begin active training
ing New York and enjoying themselves
generally. All are delighted with New
York and all are looking forward with
genuine enjoyment to their approaching
meeting with the best we have to offer
nthe way of amateur glove men IN
their classes. 1t is too early to pass
Judgment on their ability to swing their
fists, but it can now be said without
fear of contradiction that they are all
very gallant gentlemen. each with
record of service in the war yard
long, each a fitting ambassador of Great
Britain to this scheduled carnival of
sport
Capt E. V. Chandler and Hugh
Brown, formerly of the British army,
and John Watson but lately an able
seaman in the British navy, have been
installed at the Hotel EndicOtt.
Each of these men is over SIX feet
tall and looks as though he will need
but little training to put him III shape
for bout with an American rival
Captain Chandler is dark, clean cut
and debonair, a graduate of London
University and, when at home on the
London Stock Exchange. He is II
years old and weighs Us pounds. He
began his boxing career as a middle
weight in his university days, continued
it as a member of the famous Bels1ze
club and then, first as private soldier
and then as an officer in the British
forces in France. He enlisted in the
Yeomanry when war was declared be-
tween England and Germany and later
was transferred to the artillery, where
he served in support of American in
fantry and made many friends among
the doughboys. He won the amateur
heavyweight championship of Great
Britain in 1914, but because of the fact
that he was serving with the British
army of occupation on the Rhine he
was unable to compete in the revival
of the championships in Blghty last
year or at the Olympic games at Ant
werp this year.
Boxed Before the King
Captain Chandler is an all round ath-
lete, having won many prizes i'll swim
ming, running and bicycle riding. He
has the distinction of having boxed be-
fore King George, having given
command performance" at Albany
Barracks in March, 1914. He was to
have boxed Bombardier Wells, then
heavyweight champion of Great Brit
ain, on that occasion, but a switch was
made and he appeared against McEn
roy at that time army champion. He
= drew from the king a round of applause
and gold medal.
Brown is a stock breeder from Ayles-
bury, in Buckinghamshire, and says
he'd like to see some good Ho1steins
during his visit to this country. SO far
he's had to be content with listening to
BULL He is 20 years old, weighs 168
pounds, has a rudy complexion as be-
fits a native of the English country
. side, and affects a close cropped mus
tache of slightly larger proportions than
that made famous by Charlie Chaplin.
He's a talkative chap but wi atever he
says is of interest Brown is pardon
ably proud of the fact that he served
throughout the war with the outfit that
began the tussle as the Royal Horse
Guards and wound up as the Royal
Machine Gun Guards, horses having
been found to be of little use in the
trenches.
Brown, who admits that one has to be
a good man to get into the guards
horse or machine gun, as you will-be-
gan to box in "a, when he won the
middleweight championship of Great
Britain. During his service in the
guards-it must have been in the early
days of the war, before the machine
guns supplanted the horses won the
cavalry championship. He won the
heavyweight championship of Great
Britain in 1919 when Captain Chandler
was unable to compete-there is no I'M
due significance in the statement and
represented his country at Antwerp last
summer. He lost the decision to Nor
wegian whose name he does not remem-
Der after an extra round had been or
dered in the semi-hnal bout in his class,
81. Al Crl,4 too1,
given the award to him.
Watson is a quiet mild looking fell
low, who did not take up boxing in
serious way until he enlisted in the navy
two DAYS after England hooked up with
the minions of the kaiser. He was as
signed to H. NJ. S. Queen Elizabeth and
was induced to enter a boxing tOurna-
ment conducted on that marvellous en-
CINE of destruction when it was riding
at anchor in the Dardenelles. He
knocked his opponents dead and won
the championship. He has been gong
strong ever since At Malta in 1918
he beat a soldier in the British forces
in that part of the world for the cham
pionship of the Mediterranean. Return
ing to England, he won the Lord Des-
borough Cup in competition at the Ma
tiona1 Sporting Club and then took his
discharge from the navy.
Boobies at Police Club
Harry Ma1lin and Jack Stanley the
fighting London boobies, were found
comfortably quartered at the Police
Club on Riverside Drive, where they
are chaperoned by Inspector A: J.
Spriggs of Scotland Yard who isn't in
the least like the Scotland Yard inspec-
tors one reads about in the exploits Of
Sherlock Holmes. The inspector is the
honorary secretary of the Metropolitan
Police Athletic Association Of London
and presides over the athletic activities
of hundreds of lusty constables. He
wears tweeds and smokes pipe and is
most affable.
Mallin, judging by reports from Eng
land and from those Americans who
have seen him in action, is the real bon
honme of the squad. Barring badger
haircut he is ringer for Jack DemP-
sew. He has the same sort of jaw, high
cheek bones and heavy eyebrows, the
same keen eyes and naturally swarthy
complexion. He is q years old and
native of London, and began boxing as
a welterweight in the ranks of the Elton
God pronounced "Ode") Boys, Lon
don club, to which he still belongs. he
Joined the Police Department in 1918
and soon began to bowl over the boys
at his weight in the P. A. A. In 1917
he won the middleweight championship