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Show SPORT WRITERS DO NOT ENDORSE WIEDE DECISION LONDON. April 1 None of the sporting reporters on London morning papers endorses the decision by which , ".Tlmmie" Wilde, the British flyweight champion, defeated Joe Lynch, an American boxer, on points last night. While some are content to say that the bout was very closely conlested, oth-jers oth-jers do not disguise their surprise and ; mention sympathetically the astonish-, astonish-, ment with which the decision was received re-ceived by a large part of the specta-I specta-I tors. " The Mail's expert says he scored the rounds carefully and at the finish decided de-cided thai Lynch had eleven and Wilde ; four. He wants to know, he Bays, upon wh;.' the referee's verdict was based I The Daily Sketch differs from the de-'cision de-'cision saying that Wilde got a worse gruelling than he did on the only oc-jcasion oc-jcasion he has been beaten in a real ; contest. i There is also reference to the defeat a dm nistered to Wilde by l'al Moore of Memphis, Tenn.. in the inter allied i boxing tournament held in London De cembcr 11 and 12. L nn |