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Show I. BOXING MOST POPULAR SPORT AMONG OFFICERS AP MEN SAYS SOLDIER WILDE i NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Across the pond drifts some news from Jimmy Wilde, fly-weight champion of the world. The fly-weight applies only to Hf the mosquito's physique and not to , his brain. 'From his position as scrgcant-in-structor of boxing, Jimmy has fol-lowed fol-lowed closely the effects of the sport dn the British army, and he belioves that the value of learning the art is .great in close fighting. "When I joined the army," says Jimmy, "I had the idea that my job would be a difficult one. I lmagiued I would have to give instructions to the merest novices, but it did not tako mo long to realize that my idea was entirely wrong. Some of the men aro igood enough already to win local championships. "There is a groat similarity in the stylo adopted in the army, which can only be put down to training received ,in schools. The left is always re-igarded re-igarded as the punishing hand, and in Hlt imy opinion too little use is made of : f 1 the right. To keep it entirely as a H weapon of defense is altogether i H .wrong In nine cases out of ten, mon H!ji imakc more use of their right for any M J jpurpose than they do of their left, i RJ land many of our grcatost fighters i H- lhave disregarded their early Instruct I Rt Uon and use both hands to any ad- i j vantage they can put them to." Jimmy adds that he has never been 1 fl up against a Hun personally in a 1 ihand-to-hand fight, but he has heard 1 H' of close contests on tho field where I British soldiers have 'forgotton they 'possessed weapon and relied on their fists. In no case, he ventured, has he ; 'heard of the Boche having the better l H' of a fight. The lightweight class is the best in tho army, says tho fly-weight champion. cham-pion. "I have come across men of all sizes," he adds, "heavyweights, middles, mid-dles, welters, fly-weights and ban. tarns, and if you ask me I would say tho lightweights are . tho bcsL Of course, many of them aro putting on weight every day, and I have known welters to become fully qualified for a middleweight description in less than a month. "Their strength seems to alter automatically. auto-matically. The men I mean are young and they have been taught well either at school or in tho gymnasium and they havo also picked up many points by visits to first-class shows. "Their education," remarks tho champion, "Is harmed rather than helped by the cultivation of too much in-fighting,' which he says was introduced intro-duced by Americans. While admitting that infighting contains a groat deal of science, Jimmy does not approve it, on tho ground that it is not exactly ex-actly English and lends itself to the possibility of liberties being taken on the spur of the moment which woro never really intended. "Boxing so far as the army is concerned," con-cerned," he says, "Is tho most popular form of sport among both officers and men. Every opportunity is given for ho oncouragement and cultivation of Lhc sport, and one of the chiof rea sons why subalterns and privates always al-ways look so fit and well Is tho hobby they have adopted In thoir spare tlmo Lhat Induces them to keep up their training. Individually, they are each equal to two Germans. Wilde enlisted somo time ago for active service, but his physique would not stand the strain and so he was jiven his present job of Instructor, j |