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Show Moore and Wilde Fight 20 Rounds in London Tonight PAL MOOEE JIMMY WILDE S: , f i-?f . 1 "1" ' - 1 til: '3 ? 'Mi : ' : $ ill V-?i . jj I - jT , jj ' r. j i i i By EDDIE GEIGEE CHICAGO, July 15. When Pal Moore, Memphis flash, strikes out m bis twenty-round battle in London with Jimmy Wilde, tomorrow night, he will have General Pershing and every American doughboy in London pulling for him. In a cablegram from Nate Lewis today came the word that General Pershing would sit in a box at the ringside with the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert. Eddie McGoorty, American middleweight, will be one of Moore 's seconds in the fight. Eddie, along with almost every American soldier over there, is betting on Pal to win the referee's decision and tho flood of American money has sent the prices to even, according to MaDager Lewis's wire. All London is wild with enthusiasm over the fight. A br.nd will lead Wilde into tho ring. The fight will start at 9:30 o'clock London standard, which, with the difference in time, should give us the resuit Bomo time tomorrow afternoon. Mike O'Dowd, claimant of the middleweight championship, and Al McCoy, former claimant, meet in a ten-round contest in St. Paul tomorrow night. A match between Benny Leonard and Charlie White, to be staged at Benton Harbor on Labor day, is in the making. Should Leonard decline, it will be White and Welling. |