THE MAN
MAN WHO BEAT SPOT OF JIMMY WILDE KILLED BOTHER
FORCED TO SELL LONSDALE BELT
“IN THE YEARS TO COME, if I am remember- ed by that great army of sportsmen who follow the fight game, I suppose when my name crops up I shall have tagged on to it 'the man who first beat Jimmy Wilde'."
came
Tancy Lee's own words, spoken | Tancy's time it was 20, and not nine years ago. And recently 15 rounds.
the news that one of the Actually, Tancy fought a draw greatest little battlers of all time for the light-weight championship was a black-out victim - knocked of Scotland at that age. He didn't down and fatally injured by a turn professional until close on 30. Corporation bus crossing a road in And that because the A.B.A. dis- Leith, writes ย correspondent qualified him from the Amateur Wor at the Championship he from London,
Alexandra Palace in 1910.
After his retirement, like 80 many of the grand old-timers, he hit bad times. Out of work and in desperate straits, he was
EASTERN AT SYDNEY
WILLKIE
AND
The Eastern Athle-ENGLISH
tic Association Foot- ball team arrived in Sydney yesterday.
-Reuter.
Wilde in 1915 they bet 5-2 on the Tylorstown Terror.
From the punch point of view Lee was as freakish as Wilde, but doing 8st, was a nightmare task "Stow murder" he for the Scot. once called it to me.
It was punching all the way. and by the tenth they were pretty level, but Lee said that coming up for the eleventh he believed for
SPORT
Everton out of the Cup; Preston following up their 12-1 victory over Tranmere with an 8-1 win over the Rovers; Bolton Wan- derers lending six players to Nor wich and playing a 15-year-old centre-forward and a 17-year-old outside left against Bury in a North Regional game, which they won by 5-1; and a dramatic scene at Se hurst,
These were a few only of the highlights in a week-end foot- ball programme, writes "Mac." WENDELL WILLKIE HAS in the "News of the World."
Selhurst was an The scene at SEEN US AT WORK, SAYS HE WILL COME AND WATCH US amazing one.
WHEN AT PLAY
WE HAVE Palace were leading 4--0 when
awarded Palace FINISHED WITH
ADOLF. the referee WRITES A CORRESPONDENT penalty.
Duke, the Brentford goalkeeper, FROM LONDON.
left his goal.
Wendell is a keen basket-ball fan, and told friends of mine that he feels sure it could be put over in a big way in this country.
He thinks that evacuee children returning from the States after the war will want to carry on with the games they are enjoy
a
A crowd of Brentford players surrounded the referee, who walk- ed off the field. Five minutes later both tearns followed the referee to the dressing-rooms.
After a hold-up of 15 minutes the
returned, and the teams
Taney was right. That memor- able January night in 1915 at the old N.S.C., when the Seat, aged 33
penalty kick was taken by Hud- and the father of six, fought to a standstill the Tylorstown "ghost
Then in the fourteenth Lee fol-ing in their present surroundings.gell, who scored. with a hammer in his hand" willpelled to sell his Lonsdale feather-lowed a hail of body punches with This also looks to me like a base-
weight belt.
ever be linked with his memory.
The
battered gloves which Jimmy Wilde to sensational de- feat in the 17th round were re- cently bought for £55 at a charity boxing show.
arc
to
They
being sent America to be put up for the same charity, but one likes to think they will come back to Scotland again some day. There are folk hi Edinburgh who would as soon see the Castle auc- tioned On Broadway as those souvenirs of Tancy's greatest hour.
Thrown To Whippets
When Tancy Lee went home in triumph to Leith after staggering the boxing world, his fans insist- ed on buying him a complete new wardrobe, which included a natty gent's bowler hat.
Tancy, tough product of the shipyard, just hated
bowler hats, and his martyrdom was complete when at his own front door his whippets barked furiously at him as if he was a burglar.
It was the last straw. Tancy tossed them the bowler hat, and went back to the old cloth cup.
Sold His Belt
Tough old Tancy was still fight- ing at 45. Which makes Len Har- vey. ut 33, only at the threshold of his career, and don't forget in
TAUGHT BY MAN HE BEAT WITH EASE
Cyril Gallie, one of the best amateur boxers of the past decade, who is now in the Army, is short- ly to take a sergeant's P. T. course, which in- cludes boxing and the man who will be instruct- ing him is Frank Frost, whom Gallie easily beat in the big Wembley show løst year," writes a Cor- respondent.
I remember Frost at the time that
telling me he had never
been hit so hard and so often before,
The story how they came to meet is an extraordinary... onej. Five minutes before the tight: neither knew whom his opponent, was to be.
Gallie was originally matched with Alf Harper, but in a bout three days earlier Gallie broke Harper's jaw.
Hooper,
was
Meanwhle, Frost's 'scheduled- opponent, Bobby also over-weight, and both Cyril' and Frank were left high, and dry.
Then the late Bill Dees, A.B.A. hon, secretary, bad a last-minute brain wave,
..
Gallie was hurried from a BBC "before the fight" broad- cast to take the ring with Frost, and though Gallie conceded Glb. not a solitary-Welsh complaint- -- was heard about the discrepancy::
In weight.
com-
Jeff Dickson bought that belt. Wonder where it is now?
I wonder how many know or why James Lee have forgotten was called Tancy. The only all- swer I know--because his father WHS.
The Epic
When the pride of Leith into the
ring for the epic
the first time he would win,
a terrific right to the jaw, which was the beginning of the end.
Lion-hearted Jimmy went on
but when the gamely,
referee the seventeenth he stopped it in was staggering about wide open to be punched at will.
1
on
ball threat.
Willkie is by way of being an expert
basket-ball tactics. During his teaching days he ooached the Coffeyville high school team,
and also put the track team through its paces.
This is the third time this sea- son that scenes have taken place at Selhurst over penalty decisions
that I have no doubt he means to try again.
Wilkie also hopes the day is not far distant when he can attend Final at Wembley international
He may be interested to know an F.A. Cup
an Commodore Critchley and
athletics
Lee had to reduce over a stone to get down to weight for the re- turn fight, and after taking a that Air went fearful hammering he was knock-has always thought there was a match at the White City.
future here for basket-ball, and so do we. with led out in the eleventh round.
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