Show NEW NEV AND OLD WAY OF fl Freddie W Welsh and Johnny Sum Summers Summers mers Represent the Two Styles in Their Contest When Freddie Welsh and Johnny twenty rounds before the National Sporting club of London November S the tho best two lightweights in England mot inot The old redoubtable Jim Corbett goes one better beHer lie hc to do I dared It would ho bo the greatest light lightweight weight fi light ht In history and that no noone noone one Is likely to see its equal in thIs generation It was such In man many re respects respects although no knockout was scored winning on points He outclassed his rival rhal from tile the outset In cleverness footwork sidestepping and infighting rinsing ringing the knell on th the game of I which Summers is a master posses possessing possessing sing besides a 11 terrible wallop flay Hav flayIng Ing won Welsh now defies Battling Nelson an and Is wilting to meet the American titleholder hero here or on Eng EnglIsh English lIsh soil John R It Coryell English expert in matters pugilistic gives a splendid nr r hl th Hi shock h made dO dOP u upon P English g I sports s by I Welshs ma may be dubbed Americanized maneuvers I and supplemented 1 by an account of the tho now English plans It follows Fred Freel Welsh is lightweight chain cham champion pion of England No one disputes his title now and there Is no one In Insight insight sight to lo contest It He had already beaten every other claimant but John Johnnj Johnny ny nj Summers and him he hc met and beat last Monday night lie Ho beat him so thoroughly through ever every round that there thoro was but ono one opinIon on the result Summers was so corn com completely outclassed that even his most ardent admirers lost all hope for him b by the fourth round As for Sum I think ho was convinced h by bythe the third round that lie he had no pos possible possible sible chance I never neer saw such a bewildered dazed look on n a mans faco as on his as the conviction grad gradually formed in his brain that he could neer hit his elusive 1st hut but that hIs antagonists lists scorned frightfully multiplied each gloved fist landing ut at will Both were In the pink of O con condition and I 1 am sure Summers ne neer or er fought better beLter In his All that ho he kneW he tried but when he boxed he was so 50 much that lie ho looked litre a school ho boy and when he fought lie ho was either mario malle to look foolish because he could not land a ablow blow Or he was so fiercely outfought that his legs weakened under hIm and he was glad to hold on There i Iii no doubt lie he would been knocked out by bp the fifteenth round if Welsh had been permitted to tight fight In tIm the American way but over here they detest Infighting and look upon It as a horrid innovation not notto notto to be tolerated They admire and Ic de demand mand open and got gotting ting thug away awny they thoy are arc shocked at any blow that is not straight Irom the shoulder They Thoy saw get under or away or oi inside of all hits his opponents cuts famous rights and aud lefts with such ease eaBe as seemed scorned to indicate that no ne knew just what the other was going to do then they saw him dart in and smother poor Summers in a perfect hall o of blows which not over six oi 01 nine Indies Inches but which 1 loft Summers gasping rind weak woul saw sav their favorites face pounded out or of shape they saw his legs les welt n they thoy saw him hanging on thc they y sn him him wince under the punishment on his bod but or the most part paiL the they were ero not enlightened but ul only au an ang g S The contest has caused a vast ast amount o of controversY NO 10 one doubts rbi f i a moment that Summers was a au outclassed and I have riot not heard even ven a suggestion of oC another I the he two boxers Welsh Is the tho champion ally ques Uon and e Ol lh the controversy rages and the they want to knoW lenow YOU know if that Is good fighting A few of the best say frankly frankl that Welsh had dealt a death deathblow deathblow blow to to the style of standing straiGht up In a r reg regulation g I attitude e dancing gracefully in inand and out with straight leads right i swings and anh a few uppercuts thrown in whenever the boxer happens to lo re remember remember I member that there are arc moro inUre than thau two i effective bloss to be used It loos as if the they were beginning slowly and painfully to wake up over here to the fact that thal they must give ghe more tude to the thc boxer if they expect him to be bc a lighter fighter This Is the thc first time Welsh has fought In London since lie he left Amer America lea ica last June Ills His victories over oer the best men lucre here loft heft London It was quite certain in their minds that when he n et Johnny Sum Summers Summers mers that splendid representatIve or of orthe the best English traditions his new newfangled of at punch and foot fool footwork work would bo be shown up tip in all their emptiness and futility They rhe are arc now almost as much daz dazed ed cd as Summers was arid nothing else is talked in sporting circles but Welsh and his new methods There Is not left them even een the consolation of believing that some one else could have lone done better than Summers for he hc is admittedly the best bost man of his weight over hero here Atilt And it must be said that lie ho Is Infinitely better belloI than lie he showed himself in Am America Am America erica He Is quick clever and strong His punch Is terrific and his biB courage and gameness unimpeachable It was a beautiful fit light ht for one who understood the nIce points of the game for it was a splendId lion tion of the difference between the new and the old styles of And although about or of Welshs marvelous ring craft did not itself owing to the rulings of the referee enough was in evidence to tomake tomake make the fight a very cry pretty one The house was packed with the usual aristocratic assemblage and one might have hac fancied the house of lords had adjourned and como come down in a aiS iS 1 rt C SS it Ir tn n I I o wa ent l wit wIth Lord Lorl gold belt which he be must defend defond for three years before he can call it absolutely hIs own on This Is the first belt ever given over lucre here for a lightweight championship I 1 think it is the tho most beautiful bolt r have ever eer seen and I have seen most of the championship belts bells that have been boen given it Is o of solid gold and is worth about 1000 Of course there is a great boom on just now The music halls are aro after him with offers of 2000 a week but hul as yet lie he has hns not closed with any of them thought though lie he probably will HI in the course of a day or two He was glen given a great reception when lie he returned to Wales Vales after actor the fight arid and arida anda a monster banquet under the aus auspices of the leading members of the community Is to bo be held in his honor It look as f if Battling Nd son could afford to much longer loner Now that 1 is the rec I of England his chat chal challenge lenge to Nelson must either be taken taleen notice of or the Battler must let lct his title pass b by default to the man who ho offers to meet him on hits his own terms but buL whom 1 he has sidestepped for so soman man many months that they run into years ear earlC lC if the lightweight champion or of the world will wUl come over here there Is n a abig big purse waiting wailing for hinl and has offered to back bacle himself to the ex dx extent tent of or 1000 Yours JOHN R CORYELL CORiELL |