Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-16
JIMMY WILDE
READY QUIT
RING FOR GOOD
Flyweight Champ in Business
Seaman Hall Best British
Lightweight.
BY McGANN


Special Correspondent Of The Great Falls Tribune.
Copyright. 1872, BY The Great Falls Tribune.
New York, Oct. 15.-Jimmy Wilde
is through. The popular worlds
champion flyweight knows this and is
thinking of announcing his retirement
from the ring. In such case he would
probably be willing to take the coin
in exchange for his title. For it looks
to be a cinch that the first good man
who meets him, say, Pancho Villa, will
stow him away.
Wilde. as a matter of fact, already
has practically retired from ring ac-
t~ivities. For six months he has been
in business as a commission agent and
has been making good. The best Eng
lish critics say he had better stick to
his job and have the undying honor of
retiring with his title intact.
What the English are talking about
particularly just now is the man who
took the lightweight championship of
England AVA from Ernie Rice the
other night. He is Seaman Hall and
both English and American fight fame
iers who saw him turn the trick think
be is very promising. For two or
three years Hall, who is in his maj
esty's navy, has had to do his training
on navy ships but he worked hard.
The wonder is how he advanced at all
under the circumstances. But while
training for Rice he got leave, raised
a stake and lived high and hearty on
the beef Of old England. Result, he
is lightweight champion of England.
Leonard and Tender Growing
He may be here before long. Never
since Freddie WEIGH won the light
- ALL LA- thaHA HAM CtVnh N ~
| opening for q new contender. 1t will
be news to most persons, but Lew
Tender has grown right out of the
lightweight division which is one rea.
son why we have heard nothing re
/ Gently about a return Leonard-TendleI
engagement. Lew is a natural weller
and while Benny Leonard still car
train down he has come to realize thai
he does it only at the price of ~injurini
his constitution.
1t would lot be surprising If Leon
ard and Tender would, in the near flu
ture, declare themselves in the welteI
division. They would do battle at thii
weight for the honor of taking a cracl
at the aged Jack Britton, who, old al
he is, shows no signs of diminishe'
ability to slap his way through bout
against the best men.
IF Seaman Hall is as good as the,
say he would come Over here and bav
no one more formidable to beat thai
Charley White, Johnny Dundee an
the lesser lights.
Beckett or Moran for Sikh
AS predicted a week or so back, tn
winner OF the Beckett Moran figh
will meet Sengalese Sikh. Latest ca
BILE dispatches reiterated today tina
Sikh and Beckett will fight Novembe
IL. This despite Tex Richards posi-
tive statement that he expects Sikh {
hold to the contract to fight in Me-
York on November 80. Richard addet
however, that he might give Sikh
little more time, since it would b
hardly probable that the French blac
would rush across and fight her
seven days after a battle in Londo
+ or Paris.
; Richards contract with Sikh pre-
| vides that he would name an opponer
! for Carpenters victor later. Aft'
all. it would be a shrewd move
2 Richards part to give Sikh the exit
r time, with an added proviso in II
e contract that the paper would be vo
if Sikh is to default in the meantim
A defeat of Sikh by Beckett wou
forever and ever stop any talk or 81
fighting any one on these shores.