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Show JIMMY WILDE KNOCKS OUT YOUNG ZULU KID LOXDOX. Dec. IS. Jimmy Wilde, flyweight fly-weight champion of England, knocked out Frankie Ti Melfi, known as Young Zulu Kid. of Brooklyn, X. Y., in the eleventh round of their match today. By this vic-torv vic-torv Wilde reaffirmed his right to the title of flvtveisht champion of the world. The contest was to have gone twenty rounds of three minutes each. In the eleventh ronnd Wilde sent the Zulu Kid to the ropes with a strong left to the jaw. Clinging to the ropes, the American fighter took a dozen body blows and then dropped on one knee. As soon as the Kid regained his feet Wilde shot :r.ash:ng right and left Mows to the jaw, flooring the "American lad, whose seconds, without waiting for the count, tnrew in a towel. |