The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-14

kesNAASs0AA S&AsSs F~~6S ~AoASsSAS ss@S But the "Kid" is not attempting a comeback with his flsts-excepf for what use he can make of them in pounding for emphasis in his political speeches. For the East End London scrapper, who fought his way to fame and something of a fortune in America, is running for parliament.
 Many another fighter has been broken and forgotten since the days when the welterweight crown | in the United States. But the Kid" saved his money and his ambition. To-day finds him allied with the new party-the latest thing in po- litical vote-seeking organizations | in Great Britain-and seeking seat as a legislator.
 The group is being called the "3-B Party'-composed of brains. beauty and brawn. Sir Oswald Mosley supplies the first commod- ity along with a lot of money. Lady | Cynthia Mosley has the second, with plenty of incidental charm. Kid" Lewis, the incongruous, has the brawn, along with enough brains to make him a promising favorite in the district which he expects to send him to parliament. Mosley Started It
 | The new party owes its incep- ton to Sir Oswald's dissatisfaction with things as they are and his further dislike of the slow ways Of the Tory, Liberal and Labor par ties. Sir Oswald ought to know, l l. vrN | of them. He started out in parlia- ment as A Tory, next became an independent, then joined the La- bor party. Not long ago he left that, too, and founded his own or- ganization.
 In the present House of Com mons his party has strength of four. two of whom are himsef and his wife. But Sir Oswald is espe- cially enthusiastic about his latest recruit-"Kid" Lewis.
 | Never did a stranger pair meet. Mosley was born to heirship or baronetcy, great estates and great wealth, Lewis-whose real name | is Gershon Mendelon-was born to poverty in the teeming East End | of London with its swarming ghet- to. Mosley went to exclusive schools. Mendeloff went to the in- efrior free schools provided by England for its poor.
 His First Fight
 At the time when Mosley was disporting himself at college, Men deloff had entered the university of hard knocks. At first it was SO, only figuratively speaking. Then it became the literal truth. One night, when he was 16, Mendeloff quarreled with a young tough at an amusement place and chal- lenged the bad egg to fight.
 A member of a boxing club saw the whole affair. He at once pro- posed that, instead of having a rough and tumble mixup, they meet the following week under de- cent boxing conditions. He even offered a purse of $5 to the win ner. Mendeloff agreed, and won.
 That virtory and those five fror men looked good to Mendeloff, SC that about the time young Mosley entered the army, Mendeloff be- came Kid" Lewis and entered the professional boxing ring. Before Hong he had won the featherwelght championship of England and later that of all Europe. At one time In his career he was both British ana European middleweight champion. But the title hse is prohdest of IS that he once was welterweight champion of the world. To attain this he beat Mike Gibbons and Willie Ritchie and then set of Tn hot pursuit of a match with Jack Britton, the American who was worlds champ. Those two clashed in the fistic ring so often that they were like two bulldogs who go after each other each tune they meet.
 He Won the Crown
 Britton and Lewis had a number of no-decision scraps, but finally Britton consented to fight for 2t rounds, the winner to get the championship. Lewis got the deci. sion in Dayton, O., in 1918. Bu, he did not hold 1t very long. Jus' as Lewis had chased Britton, SC now Britton chased Lewis. They finally met again and Britton wor back his championship in 1923.
 Among the famous fights were those in which he beat Paul I'll the Frenchman. for the feather weight championship of Europe 1T 1914; the battle in which he licked Francis Charles, the French mid dleweight, who had Carpenter il his corner, and the contest 1T which he beat Boy" Mccormick who then held the light middle } weight championship in Europe.
 Lewis had dropped out of thu limelight recently, living a life o' ease with his family-his wife . formerly Elsie Snyder of New Yorl city, and his son Morton.
 Suddenly 1t was announced th' Kid" was throwing a big party fol his friend Sir oswald. The latter announced he was glad to stat' that Lewis had joined the New Party. What was more, in thu next election the Kid" proposed to run for parliament from the dis
 trict known as St George's-in-the
 East. This district has a larg'
 Jewish population which usual. votes labor. Lewis will make |,
 formidable candidate, becaus even the non-Jews are grea
 friends of the Kid"
 He Made a Speech
 When Mosley called upon Levi
 to speak he was frightened stin No pug in the ring ever had hin going that way, but verbal sparrin was something else again. How ever, he weaved up to his feet an . took a couple of good pokes at tn English language. His enthusias
 tic friends said he scored a KO ii the first round, for it was a frs round speech-only a few haltin sentences. The "Kid'' told then that in English life, sport and poll , tics were closely bound togethe, In these troublous times, men fl to face crises must be fit in body l YIa halioxraa s,anuAal ana x.hsrcina