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Show ONLY UNDEFEATED CHAMPION TO ENTERTAIN TROOPS IN FRANCE Jack McAuliffe Gives Services to Knights of Columbus for Foreign Work, . By Paul Purman To The younger generation of boxing fans the name of Jack McAuliffe means '"very Tittle. v ' " And it la not afronge. aa the only lightweight light-weight eh mp ton of the world who retired undefeated haa not been eeen in the ring for taenty-alx jeara, with the escepiion of a aix-rounn exhibition boxed come twenty-two eara ago. In aplte of hie firty-to yenra McAuliffe Mc-Auliffe haa decided he ahould do aome-thlng aome-thlng for hia adapted country In thin wr and haa signed up with the Knights of Columbus for duty In France. McAuHffe haa changed aa much aa the atyle of fighting haa changed alnce his day. The former 130-pounder haa put on thirty pound or more, but hla broad shoulders and deep cheat at I II bear wll -iees to his former prowraa. when men . .baUUil.Au a kiaaaaowt wllh aaa If ta fee i purwea cheap pork and beanera would I laugh at today. MrAullffa chamjionaltlp farcer teg.in In tb. when ht claimed tlm title after Jimmie Mlti-hell, the recognised champion, refuaed to meet him. Two high apotti loom out of MrAullffe"s record, hie Tl-mund draw with Jem Carney, Car-ney, the Hrltlffh champion, and his 64-round 64-round draw with Hilly Myer. It waa In 1R7 that ajortlng men of New York and New Ki. gland arranged the meeting between McAuliffe and Carnev at Revere, Maaa. The fight was for 4S'0 a aide and waa to go to a flniah. - Tha men fought hare fiated. The fight took place In the open air In a secluded apot. where offlcera were not likely to Interfere. For aevent -fo ir I rounde the men hnltled. Toward tlic end ' It looked aa though McAuliffe was get-4 ting the worm of It, and a crowd of rowdies who ad bel large auma on. Mi-1 Auliffe broke into the ring and endc-d the fight, which wa called a draw. It goca without Brtving that McAuliffe, alwaya a clean anoriamun, had nothing to do with the affair. Ivrhapa the moot dramatic incident In McAullffe'a tfng career occurred at North Judnon, Ind., In Uxu. McAuliffe and Billy Meyer war matchArt to right for the champlonahip and $2.r,oo a elde. 1 About the fortieth round McAuliffe broke his arm. hut he continued fighting until the Pixt -fourth, when -the content waa declared a draw. McAuliffe dirt thla to protect hia friends, who had wagered large euma on him. In n2 McAuliffe aon from Mer In fifteen rounda. The next year McAuliffe retired undefeated unde-feated and Kid T,avigne aaaumrd the ittle. although McAuliffe did not officially announce an-nounce hla retirement until three years later, when he boxed a at x -round exhibi-ttonwMth exhibi-ttonwMth ravlgne In New York." W iMfc 'ww uwaf wwgv t Vs ' ,V V '. . V:rl fev ":t;r wiuioor :;... ..j; . -:: . I jl . |
