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Show PBESI HGHTERS ARE IN ! THE LIGHT-WEIGHT CLASS Willie Lwlsv the twenAy-year-old boy who knocked out' Martin Canole up In Maine recently. Is regarded by experts all over the . country as a comer. The boy has been-4a the game since be was If and is fast, clever and a hard j puncher. ; .' '.. Without "doybt the- victory over Canole gives him the right to meet any of the light or feather-weights In the. business. It is true that Canole Is not in the championship class, but he stayed the limit with the best in the business and Lewis Is bound to be an attraction at any club-in the country. It Is strange but true that there have been ' more clever men developed in the class between 128 andi 135 pounds than In any other. There is a decided dearth of good material among the welterweights welter-weights and middle-weights and almost none in the heavy-weight division. Among the light-weights, however, the aspirant for championship matches can find any amount of good men to meet. The list Includes such men as Jimmy Britt. Battling Nelson, Young Corbett. Jimmy Gardner, Willie Fitsgerald, Martin Canole, Tommy Mowat, Charley Char-ley Neary, Terry McGovern, Kid Goodman,. Good-man,. Aurelio Herrera, Eddie Hanlon and a host of others. The popularity of Terry McGovern and later of Jimmy Brltt Is largely responsible re-sponsible for the development in this class. The middle and heavy-weights have four-flushed and double-crossed the" public ; so often that there Is not now the demand for them as attractions attrac-tions which once prevailed. |