The Washington times., 1922-08-09

sLinc potn Will De lamillar 1lgureS
ming a busy campaign for both.
course, is the big idea, but meanw
all suitable opponents.
The object of our visit here is
threefold." says Churchill. First
w~nt TO give these boys experience
IN american rings; second, / want
TO show people In this part of the
world what we have been doing
IN the glove game in the Philippine
Islands; third, want, Villa to get
a crack at the flyweight champion
ship OF America-for which he Is
eligible to contend-and which
think he can take back to Manila
with him. So far.as making money
on the trip itself is concerned
have small hope of that. We have
spent lot of money to come here,
and how much of II we viii get
back do not know. However,
u we can build up boxing in the
Philippines as a result of this trip
we shall be well rewarded for it,"
.It didn't take the natives long
20 learn to like the game" he
says, with the result that at
present about 30 per cent Of the
DUAcfo anu patFous aro hhtiNcs.
We have developed some very good
boys. the best Of them Kid Dencio,
who died I'm Australia this year.
He was wonderful little fighter
and, had he lived, believe he would
have become world champion in the
featherweight class. In his bout
with Eugene Criqm In Australia,
he collapsed in the ninth round,
i think II was, after winning all the
way from the French boy.
"Criqui told me later that Dencio
was far better fighter than he.
We didn't know what was the
matter with Dencio then, but when
he died a short time later II was
discovered he had an abscess on the
brain. .l
The game has flourished so well
in Mania that have built a
stadium which. to my mind, com.
pares favorsbly with any I have
seen so far in the matter of seating
arrangements though. Of course, it
is not as large as many in this
country. I can seat about 5000
In my stadium and its construction
Is almost ideal.
when Villa convinced me that he
was the best flyweight in the Islands,
I laid my plans for bout between
him and Buff. I didn't care where
Buff lived or what his manager was,
30 l cabled my offer to him through
Tex Rickard. 1t was $4,000 and
$1,000 expenses. That was In jan
uary of this year.
Weeks passed and when receiv-
ed no answer though Buff wasn't
interested in the trip. So I made
arrangements to bring Villa and
Flores, who is the best Of our light
weights, here. On March 2S, the day
before we were to sail, l received a
letter from Lew Diamond, Bluffs
manager.
Diamond wrote that he had re-
ceiyed my cable and wanted $685..
600 and 81, 1000 expenses. Had Dia-
mond cabled this reply so that IL
would have reached me before 1
was all set TO come here 1 should
have continued negotiations with
him.
'I think we could have come to an
agreement. for / was prepared to
yield a bit and we should have been
able to hit upon a compromise figure.
70 have the contest put on here.
1--WE are ready to sign and await
only Bluffs consent. ] assure you
the promoters will not find me un-
reasonable when II comes to talking
money" .n.
The boxers are quiet little fellows
whose knowledge of English is not as
scant as their shyness makes II ap-
pear. They are centent to let
Churchill do their talking for them,
and when a question is put 20 them
they usually answer II through him.
With the aid of Churchill It was
learned that Villa is twenty-one
years old and his right name is Fran
cisco Gilledo, though there is yet
another by which he Is known. II
is Tingsen, which is his stepfather's
name. He was adopted several years
ago by a man named Villa and
selected that as his ring name. while
"Pancho," in Spanish countries, Is
equivalent to Frank"
villa has had about eighty fights
and has beaten all opponents avail
able in and about the Philippines.
including George Mendes, the Aus
ttralian flyweight. Early this year
Mendes started for England to
meet Jimmy Wilde.
He stopped off at Manila to box
Villa and was. knocked out after
which he returned to Australia.
E1ores, who weighp 134, 70 few
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