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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY: APRIL 16, 1919.

TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.

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Seland has reared not many great ring fighters, bat in Tancy Lee, who at the National Sport-Sugars ing Club won the feather-weight Malabons championship for the third time. made, Lord "Lonsdale's belt his

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One will not easily forget the sion, he hagoue win, though not Tronohs tragie -pectacle of Billy Wells as exactly brilliant, or even very Urals

he lay on the floor of the ring at elever, ia in many, ways quite a the Holborn Stading with hi-remarkable person.

Imagine, if you will, a little, gama conqueror, Beckett, stand-

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Tarely has seen a champion petually flusled, eyes merry and

To be dancing, hair thin and of cut sneli a sorry figure. beaten in the fifth round destroys nondiscript edour and affording Well's claim to the champion-a pre covering tou head rather Pue of his ship, but by reason at holding like a cannon ball. Lon Lons lale's belt he can, ear tolis stories of battles in the suppose; say that be remains the ring; you say “Pugilist chief of bis class; and it is not lately you see him, though. unlikely that if he were asked to if Le were asked how he lived, re-enter the ring in a few days he would tell you that he was a

of the shipyard there would be those who would worker in one say, as they have said for all these ou the Forth. years, “Now we -hall see Wells re-establish himself.

In point of years, and judged by the average age at which mo I was sorry for Welle not be felters disappear as performers. can be was beaten gulness this sturdy Sout should have been He is 38. But knows he deserve to be bate-put on the shelf. but because he gave the most harder, a fitter, or fiercer lameatable exhibition he lins beng man have I come across. responsible for in his chequered! For his size and weight--hori Di aine stone-he is a giant in

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His defeat by the first blow he miniature, and, though possibly C. Light & P. 6. cum rights $4. required from Carpentier at the it may not be true, slum Providents National Sporting Club' might wager that there is nothing he Dairy Farms have ben an accident; truly there would so ner have than a real H. K. Electrics was nothing accidental about his gruelling fight with the wives.Macao Electrics defeat on this occasion. He went of course, for like most bxers Ropes into the fifth round -against fis, outside the ring, the enboil Beckett, and rept in the Fourth (iment of docility. round he boxelfike a fovice, like He wa- guing u in years a man wise had lost control over when he took to the fighting him-elf.

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I do not know, but I Wiseman's physical powers, and that for one ship.

big he is unusually fast in his shrewdly suspect that Le las footwork. But in this fight he never been put through his pacva was like a man in a dream, he by a baxing instructor. He i could not deliver a blow properly, tuuch sheer ruggednes- that he and it almost seemed as it he is of the tyys who take v fight-

ing as a matter of course, were glued to the flour.

Hongkong, April 16, 1919.

never wincing once, and all the time chased after Morgan. Lee had more bid moments than the Welshman, aui, had the latter not accepted Lee's invitation

He had forgotten all finesse, Those who follow boxing and all the clear he shows in the boxers know that he was to have gymann-ium. Well, as we all defended his title against Billy „do ma, must realise that he is Fry, cue of quite a crowded "not of the stuff" which make a "table" presided over by inficht, instead of insisting that

champion.

silvery-haired gentleman named

there should be boxing, he wont Why he should have developed | Tei Lewis, whoso especial pride probably have won.

incomparable Jimmy nerves against Beckett it is im- is the

As it was, there was precious But Fry, in striving to little' in it possible to say. He beat him in Wilde.

little that I was the Albert Hall tournament, get down to the feather-weight not surprised when the decision Beckett, rever, is just a rug limit he is a big boy for this of my friend, “Mr. John Douglas; ged, hard-hitting boxer, and Iela-s-broke down, and there who declared Lee to be the win-. du mut suppose that he claims came forward as his substitute ner, was questioned. Personally, much fistic skill, yet Wells jone Danny Morgan, all-Welsh of I think it was a good verdict, shivered if he were afraid. course, whom I saw some time because in the matter of good, la fast his whole conduct in agy beat Lee at Tony Pandy, wholesome, relentless, real British the contest would only have been think it was.

fighting Lee deserved to excusable in the case of a novice

awarded more points then Morgan, making his first appearance in public. Wells worried himself out of all his baxing skill, and it

is very considerable.

If you would have the long qut short of the ring, I commend There was an interesting, and

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you to Morgan and Lee, for the not an illuminating, reminder of given Wilde the fight of his former is quite tall. very lanky; the Jimmy Wilde-Pal Moore life. Well, last Monday this with arma like rods of steel, and fight. You remember thas, for Evans, quite a brave boy, appear-

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From the moment that he left a face, pale and almost sickly; reasons that i shall never be ableed at the National Sporting ClaN TICE IS HEREBY (IVEN Lis corner one felt there was no whereas the Soct is cut square, to explain, the judges made out against ordinary fighter ERAL MEETING of the HONG. hope for him. It was the old and, as I have said, is short, Moure to be the winner, and what named Mike Blake.

So how ridculous was the LIMITED will be held at the Wells who swing his blowa in a There were totnents during a hullabaloo followed. Before lost. tuid, halting way, who rushed the contest when I feared for meeting Moore, Wilde tried con-claim, that the Australian had in to fight when he had only to Lee, for the Welshman enjoyed cluxious "with an Australian come near to beating Wilde in stand away and box to be certain such physical advantages in the soldier named Evans, about the the Inter-Service Tourney, was of winning.

matter of height and reach, and most unorthodox boxer one could obvious.

I hear that there is a po-ibility As for Beckett, he fought with was so palpably the better boxer, come across. greater gameness than have that the odds were that he would And, do you know, although Boy 'Cormick, sagely a ever known him show. He never stop even such a tearaway, big-the Welsh Wonder won "irom ekampion middle-weight of the attempted to be clever, He just hearted fellow as Lee is. here to Chicago," I happened near future, meeting Eddie made the most of his great hitting i But the Sout, had the stamina apon not a few people, more M'Gooty, the American, who

Australians, powers. In a minute or so he of three men his size. He let especially

who recently defeated the Candian inust have felt sure of winning, himself be punched anyhow, theought Evans had at least soldier, Sergeant Rolph

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