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Show INFLUENZA CLAIMS VETERAN BALDWIN Matty Baldwin, the veteran lightweight light-weight boxer, died recently at Charlestown, Mass., a victim of Spanish Span-ish influenza. His death marked finis to a bright career in lightweight boxing box-ing circles, for he ranked as one of the best lightweights of his day, and for years he was the champion 133-pound-er of New England.- , Baldwin was one oi mo mosi ruggeu men w"ho 'over started a punch. He mt"practically all of the good men of his division in his hey day as a boxer and he engaged in some of the most savage battles chronicled In the past ten or fifteen years, Freddie Welsh was the only champion cham-pion Baldwin evor- met, but the New Englander beat Ritchie before he became be-came the champion, and after Ritchie lost his title to Freddie Welsh, Baldwin Bald-win held him to a 12-round draw in Boston. Charley White, ot Chicago Is tho only lightweight who ever hung a sleeper ticket on Baldwin, .who quit the ring after this defeaL Leach Cross, Milburn Saylor, Owen Moran, Tommy Murphy and many other oth-er lightweights were among Baldwin's rivals for honors in many a hard-. hard-. fought battle. |