Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-20 | Page 16 | Two French Boxers with Great Future

TWO frengh' BOXERS I WITH GREAT HfTURE! j Returned American Says Schal aand Vitet Are Lightning Youngsters. ! CHICAGO, Dec. iy. "Eddie bearing. ; formerly of the Great Lakes naval train- j ing station, who has been over on the : other side and has seen tilings, returned today. He said the French have some rcniarkauly sood boxers. Inasmuch, as he entered a tournament near Paris during his stay there, while on shore leave off the U. S. S. Bescoki, and saw some of the French stars perform, per-form, one has to listen to Kddie. He heat Joe Borreli. the Philadelphia middleweight, mid-dleweight, in a i en-ruund enron titer, and while waiting his turn studied the French boxers with a practiced eye. "There is one chap in the French ranks who is going to give anybody who comes up a sains t him something to think about besides the count," said Fduie "His name is ijhal. and he's a Freivh aviator who knows his business both m the air and in the ring. I should judge he strips at V,)b pounds. I watched him box Chick Simler, an American from th east, and he gave an exhibition we-worth we-worth the watching. Schal Only Youngster, ! "lie has a left hand that is exactly like a rapier in the cleanness of it thrust, and it will take a regular riglue to set away from him. He defeated tjini-i tjini-i ' e r as easily as anything y o u ever sa ! and did l ho 10b up in clean -cut. .-,'' i i stylo. j I "Sena; is only a youngster of 20. built ! like steel. Me is aa . . shown by t h fa-t that Simler j right after him from tho firt "cell, am j i put up a stiff Tight, from xshich he neve i I stepped back once. But once Schal go : ; tho range there was nothing more to 1. i . but to wait for tho finish, just as when ! . the Yanl-e got the ranj:e at Chateau j ) Thierry it was all up with kaiserism. j "Then they the French. I mean havv j a little fellow named Yitet. and they j credit him with being the champion o. j France. j I "You've sem lots of speed among tlv. I Ismail men. but I doubt whether you eei I sow anything guile as speedy and auite j , as i;ood" a the iiuio tricolor star. lie's ; ?o good that when hf gets started one i astonished and then moved to daughter. j such a ridiculous showing does the olhe: , make trying to set near him. Has Punch, Too. i "There's a pmnm, too, behind "tire fists, that Yitei candies. i "Both of these i-ovs arc sure to make go-id. "Of fie hea ier boxers T didn't se so . much and couldn't give an opinion, but if their middl-'weichis and heavyweight' a re anywhere nearly as good as l heir j ; Uttie ("chows, then Americans are in for ; i some interesting evenincs when those j j French boys beein to come this way. i i "Fneiand. I' am told, has some excel-' excel-' lent new men. too.."