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Show NEWCKAMMPS I M MIT CLASS ' Amateur Events at New l York Attract Big Crowds; One Westerner Wins boston. Apfil if. Th- country, I has ft brand new et of .una. r -Ing champions today, the product of in national tournament, never equalled In the degree of competition. The fourteen hours' fighting whi h ended early this morning required to decide the eight battles, was a record rec-ord tor these- annual championship carnivals. The battling that overthrew over-threw all ehaVnpiona and former title I holders who sought honors again was I of a quality that demonstrated forcefully force-fully the worth of the new blood In, ; the amateur ring. The list of champions for the year, " almost without precedence because of the newness of its members, follows: j 1PJ pounds T. P. McManus, Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. 1JJ pounds Sid Terns. New York. 12 pounds George Flfield, Toronto. Toron-to. ISG pounds Joe Ryan, Pittsburg. 117 pounds-Harry I. .Simmons, Cury lnd. DiO pounds William Antrobus. New York. 176 pounds Charles McKenna New 1'ork. Meavvwelcht John Willi. . i, i -. San Francisco. The champions, the first to be sc-; lected, under the new Olympic weight la-snicatlons, will be invited. It has been announced, to go to the Pacific j coast for a tournament In San Fran-1 Cisco next month. Gordon Muncc of New York, heavyweight hea-vyweight champion last. year, pa I OUl Ol the title picture a disappoint! d man Victor in his last Z'A bouts, he was so upset the decision went against i him. and to Williams after an extra j round that h threw in to the crowd the watch given him as second prise. A similar feature ol reCont annual' tournaments, Eddie Egan of Denver, . a law student at Harvard, also WAS eliminated. After he had lost his bout In the semi-final round of the I heavyweight class he decided to wlth-'dr.iw wlth-'dr.iw his entry tor heavyweight ho'n-I ho'n-I org. |