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Show LEWIS-BRITTON ; BOUTJUUTEDi English Welter Champion Will Try For Twentieth Time to Lift Crown. NEW YORK, June 22. yne of the first Important 16-round bouts to a! decision lhat New Yorkers are look-1 lug forward 10 when the new boxing; law become. operative Is a world's' championship battle between Jackv Brltton and his tow-headed rival. Ted (Kid) Lewis, newly crowped welter-i weight champion of England. ine oiu man of the welters. Brit-, I ton. is thirty-six, you know, has bcenl I in undisputed possession of the chain-, plonship lor .'omothlng over a year.1 lie won the crown al Canton, Ohio,1 on March 17. HUH. by flattening Lewis for the count in the ninth round of a I scheduled twelve-round bout. ( .Met Lewis 11) Times. i The Canton bout marked the elghl-' eenth meeting between Lewis and Brltton, who have been the world's leading welterweights for several j'cars.. Then, on July 27 of last year. I Lewis got a chance to regain the title In an eight-round bout at Jersey City I and failed, for the champion was all ' loo clever for his English opponent, 1 and after it was over consensus of opinion at the ringslaa guve Brltton the popular decision. Can't Tilt Crown. 1 In addition to Lewis, who won the English welterweight titlo a short time ago when he scored a technical knockout over Johnny Bashain. there are at least two welterweights who) rank as near topnotchors. but both of these boys havo failed to shake the throne on which Brltton sits so easily. One of these lads Is Johnny Griffiths, who returned from a successful tour abroad only to lose a decision to the j "aged" but agile champion in a fif - I teen-round bout at Akron lust Deco-' j ration day. Griffiths, ten years Brlt-.1 Brlt-.1 ton's junior, was expected to lift the 'crown from Jack's curly dome, but 1 tailed absolutely. Jack Porrv. the Pittsburg welter. Is another lad who hao been knocking at Brltton's front 1 door persistently for sonic time, and in several meetings with the champion he has failed to even tilt the crown. Is Marvelous Boxer. Brltton Is tho most marvelous boxer of the age. When his age is considered consid-ered he takes rank as a pugilist who' represents a distinct class, for at thir-' I ty-six lie appears lo bo Just aj active' and prolific with his mittens as he was at thirty, and in hls'recent bout with . Griffiths ho demonstrated that he can' go the championship distance and fln-I fln-I Ish strong. With Lewis wearing the English title' athwart his taffy-colorod thatch and clamoring loudly for another chance' to regain the world's title lost at Can-i ton more than a year ago, the twen-l tleth meeting between the two Is only' a little way off, for with fifteen rounds to a decision permitted here New Yorkers are alreudy asking for the match. That Lewis stands a good chance of regaining tho title some day is admitted, admit-ted, for great though ho Is. Brltton cannot go on forever, and the Ted Kid is thirteen years younger than tho champion. Both men celebrated birthdays birth-days last October. Brltton entering on his thirty-sixth year and Lewis his twenty-third. |