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Show MCI FIGHTER BEATS IIS GIG Lewis Protects Women From Insults; Puts Seven Apaches to Rout. Over in Taris the fight fans regard Georges (,'arpentier as the greatest scrapper of the age. Hut the cops in that one-time gav town have different views. They vote unanimously for Willie Wil-lie Lewis, who is acting just now as trainer for l-'rank 3d oran, Paris became a bed la m immediately after the outbreak of war in Annus!. MM b Jt wasn't safe for American women to travel alone through the street s. The American embassador, therefore, pressed into escort service ail the A merican men he could lind. He d iscovered I .ewis, who happened to be in the city at the time, and delegated him, with another A m erica n, to ta ke lour American women to tho railroad station. It was impossible to get cabs and so Lewis and his party walked. They had to pas through one of the rough sections of the town. In the heart, of the Apache district seven of the gangsters gang-sters stopped out from tho protection of the building and began to hurl insult in-sult in r remarks at the women. ' ' Cut it out, ' ' admonished Lewis in French, whereupon one of the Apaches st rode toward one of t ho women and attempted to nrab her bv tho arm. Like a flash' of lightning Lewis struck. Tlis list crashed full into the face of tho Apache and the target went to tho ground as though a ten-ton safe had lallen upon him. "Take the women anil get them away from here quirk. " said Lewis. "We're going to have a bit of exrirement." And he was right. The six other Apaches closed in upon Lewis. Knives (lashed and a billy swished through tho air. But Lewis, instead of ret routing, came on and into the pack. In the hey-dey of his fighting career he ranked as'one of the greatest America, has pro- ' dueed. He always packed a terrific mi nc h . A n d t ha t nigh t i n Pa ris h e brought the wallop out of its wrappings, and the Paris police never have forgotten forgot-ten it. Lewis shot lefts and rights with the rapidity ofa machine gun. Sometimes one blow would send a foe to tho ground; oftener ho would have to hit two or three times .before he scored a knockdown. Time anil again he barely bare-ly escaped the lunge of a knife. Once a billy landed on his shoulder. But always al-ways he kept his feet and knocked down the ruffians as quickly as they arose. At last the police came. The Apaches, Lewis and his American co-eseort, who had come back and joined iu the battling bat-tling toward its end, were taken to tho police station. The ladies emerged from the place of safety where they had been taken and joined the party in court. When Lewis told his story to tho police and the officers had secured one good look at the battered faces of tho Apnehes, the captain exclaimed: ' ' You are a wonderful man. Your courage and bravery in fighting these roughs is remarkable. X discharge you from custody and I .give you the t haul's of the department f or having made it , possible for us to round tip this gang. You aro the greatest, fighter in tho world. " |