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Show English Boxers Stand the Wear of1 Time I Good Deal Better Than Our Ring Stars English boxers last a long time, longer tkaa moat Americana. Johnny Summers aad Owen Moraa started la 1100. Thev are still going. Digger Stanley and Jem Driecoll entered the ring the following year. Drieeoil remains re-mains a star and Stanley certainly ia uot all in, notwitbetanding bis knockout knock-out by ('barley l.edoux wet June. On the other hand, Abe Attell, who first wore a glog-e in 11MM1, baa passed ; Jiimnv Walah. who had his initial bat tie in 1901, was through two years ago; Jim KlvDn, who started tbe same year, is likewise ready to toes over ike mitte. Jimmy Unit's career covered seven veara; Matty Baldwin, Young Erne, Young Donohue, Hugo Kelly and Tony .('aponi, who took up tbe profession from 11)02 on, are boek numbers and, ia fact, three of them are dead aa pugilists. pug-ilists. Tommy Murphv is aboet tbe only veteran American boxer who keeps plugging along in tip top form after his scores of contests. Tommy made his debut ia 1908 Battling No.lv. n ia on hia seventeenta year in the game hut he ia the one big exception. And the fact remains, too, that the battler has gone the route. Paekey McKar land didn 't become a boxer uatil 1900, so he doeea't eater our narrathe. Johnny Bummers now is welter weight rhampion of Europe. Driecoll is feather weight champion of 'Europe. Stanley was bantam weight champion of England. Moran once was aa good aa the best light weight la Oreat Britain. Bri-tain. Kreddie Welah today ia light weight ehatnpion of that domain after eight veara of strife. Kreddie went into the sport in 1905. And there's no getting around it, he would give Willie Ritchie an argument today. Moraa, in hie thirteen years of boxing, box-ing, haa worked 1112 rouada, or flfty-six flfty-six hours. Stanley haa fooght 004 round-: Welah. 715 rounds; lriscoll, 411 rounds, and Summers, 601 rouada. The probable secret of Driaeoll's sue cesa lies in hia inactivity, aa he baa only had fifty-one bouta, very few of them long odea, in his rareer. Thla cannot be eaid about the others, however, how-ever, every one of them going the twenty and fifteen round distance nearly aa often aa they did fix eee siona. i |