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Show fR Effil IB ET 10t 'ittle Boxer From England ' Assured of Plenty of Competition. ncc c LitUo Jimmy .V..W ?E. for action while on this : de von t I""6, !" ha listens to the niut-fc niut-fc 'pSlMo". Joey Lynch. lYmkle ff z:A o'emg the champ, is not Pete Herman oeing bul there e-!"lir- ,ht "n the minds of those vvno ,V.!s 00 .iv,t he expects to measure Her"-hnthe 1 ttlc Englishman before ,:.o?3 '"e"a-goins 'lack lor home. crop of banties. None "eDtl0 of Moore and Lynch. ' :re..ftan- about Wikio except hear-bo hear-bo ,-!av iro all willing to learn - bJl ' ,on?act. Many of them, no '" a"MaL .adder but wiser after they ouw."' L blstv understand Jimmy its'- 11 , o do some regular cam-vfand cam-vfand dough-reaping on thi? side r'n-:? of the whole shebans. is the. voore. 01 lpa ,aJ.3 that, havlnir met '- fce In his own back yard and o with the loser's end of '"' a inn he Is tickled to death to 16 "vride on this side, and he implores ,ve to do ail they can to keep a.ter " until he, Moore, can get another Xit-Pal"" C10ssea the poni1 10 fetrlvLthatUIX'arn some Interested Z Wid Moore recently,, 'more so -ir e'erhaps, because of ills arrival ".rva On two occasions I made : ."l 1.' London for the purpose of e "lp in his back yard.' and, like a I owi - get mad when I got Ki of it, and it now gives me to welcome him to. 'my back h ' ard I hope I will have tne pleasure nreriaining him before -ms return to Sif ail vou can around New York to 10 liramv so that he won't get "er f.C JS!d Pal. "Take him to the S out to Coney Island and buy him 0 ' nut be sure and keep him con-S con-S unto I return from England, where "' n in to fill an engagement with a ! fnend of ours, Charles Le.oux, ', French champion. .... , , mora than anyone else in tne world, . r" to respect Jimmy. As a mem-L mem-L 'rf ire Vr.ited States navy I won a Y.roun decision over him m tne in-Vi'ed in-Vi'ed ooxing tournament at Albert) ' r'r ecember 12, 1918. Tnen again .1 ' Ut h" twenty rounds July 17 of tms r Wilde being awarded the decision . R.fe ee Corri Regarding that deci-VtWo deci-VtWo always has been a great doubt f 0n y in the mind of the sporting pub-' pub-' '..t in my own mind as to its absolute 1 sf But that is all in the boxing me" Vou have to tako the good with ,W thii'ik I was a good sport in England rrlp the best of what I thought a Si decision. Now it is up to Wilde to 'a cowl sport In my country and let s if we cannot make his visit the ocea-n ocea-n to determine the best two out of I ' o much has been said and written ;,ut the disparity in our weights that I I I In justice to myself that I should ' ko the statement that thi3 is ail tic- n When I boxed him twenty rounds London 1 weighed 1H4 poundf. or. as iv say In 'dear old London,' 'eight stone ) and a half.' Wilde weighed seven ne eleven and a half, which is lOi'i nmon United States weight. In resjrd to Wilde's assertion that he ' i and will make '100 pounds for a jjit ' if hv that he means that he can k lnO pounds and be in condition to lll any oi the legitimate first or sec-l-rlass bantams now before tho public thin country, 1 will tako his bet and ' (t tiie monev at once. 11 is not my claim that I am the olinst pugilist in captivity,' as the B3 hkoiiIs of Wlldo seem to claim for i 1, hut 1 do claim that I am the small-' small-' and only leqltlrnate im pound ring-'. ring-'. i Imntiimwelclit In America. In mak-lina mak-lina blatcjiieuL I call the especial at-tlnn at-tlnn oi .Messrs. Polo Herman, Joe tc'.i and all the rest of 'the heavy-eht heavy-eht hamulus' who refuse to mako this Sm.io figure for a championship tul. |