The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-31

three pugilis-
Buck" o'Nein tic cham
pionships at the same time.
Bob Fitzsimmons held the
middleweight, light heavyweight
championships of the world, but
not together.
And if Armstrong works that
miracle, Eddie Meade will be the
No. man in boxing. He will
have to have a corps of assist
ants to handle the affairs of his
champion.
Eddie Meade finds it good to
guide the affairs of a champion
because he now has very little
difficulty in finding characters
willing to stay up all night with
him. The chief objection of Mr..
Meade to poverty. and he has
felt miSfortune's heavy touch, is
that he had to sit up by himself.
Life of the Party
In Mr.. Meade's previous ad-
ventures with money, he was
ever the life of any party. He
lived on the fat of the land and
his friends lived with him. He
had the gentle art of forgetting
that fighters did not last for.
ever. and that tomorrow was a
stern reality, and not a figure
Of speech. He never lacked for
company in his endurance con-
tests against the clock, although
the boys who tried to remain
with him had to work in relays.
Joe Lynch, a tough young
ster with a prize left hand and
a convincing right, was the
first Meade fighter to scale the
heights. Joe was a contempt
rary with Jack Sharkey, the
bantamweight, not the linguistic
Lith Of Boston. Those young
men made each other rich with
their terrific fights around the
country. Finally Lynch gained
the upper hand and was maneu-
vered into a match with Pete
Herman, the New Orleans ban
tamweight, for the title. Lynch
won.
The round table grew in popu-
larity as Mr.. Meade never
wearied of telling the tale of
Lynch's superiority. Wine SPAR
killed. and money was a medium
of unconfined joy to the favored.
Mr.. Meade bought a watch with
cunning-contrived ii k e n e IS of
Lynch and himself on the solid
gold case.
Popular Again
''I'll keep it forever" gurgled
Mr.. Eddie Meade.
Came the awakening. Lynch
lost his title and the round table
was deserted. When Eddie called
the boys were out. It was very
embarrassing, because Eddie
liked to eat. But that is the way
Of the fight mob.
Just last year Lynch saw a
watch in a pawn shop window.
It looked familiar. So he went in
and asked to examine 1t. 1t was
Mr.. Meade'S watch. Joe bought
it and presented it to his old pal.
It was all very touching.
Meade finally came across
Armstrong in Los Angeles and
eventually became his manager.
The round table is popular
again. The names are different,
and the faces are different, but
the fight mob never changes.
They'll flock to the feast until
q new idol is crowned, and then
they'll worship the new idol.
Which bothers Mr.. Meade not
at all. The present Is good, and
the present is sufficient.
Legendary Figure
It ISM unusual at all for
fight fans to wonder whether or
not Armstrong Is as good as Joe
Wolcott, or maybe Joe Cans at
his peak. The old timers prob
ably will rise and cry down the
very thought that anyone could
be as good as the men of that
era 80 years or more ago when
Cans and Wolcott were fighting.
Wolcott, indeed. is a legendary
figure of the boxing game by vir.
ture Of his knock out victories
over Joe ChoynSki, the heavy.
weight who fought Jeffries to a
standstill, and his knockoutS
over Kid Carter.
It is generally overlooked in
the recitals of the boxing stories
that when Choynski fought VOL
colt, ChoynSki had a couple of
broken ribs, and Wolcott belted
him on the broken bones and
stopped him. Carter was a big,
rough fellow. and just another
guy with gloves.
It is sufficient that ARM
Stronr is the best fighter of his
weight in the ring today. and
his match with Ross win not
alter his status. Ross may whip
him, and if he does, Armstrong
still can fight Ambers, or re-
turn to the featherweight class,
II he can make the weight, and |