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Show BRITTON MEETS I SHADE TGKT Champion Welterweight Is 37 and San Francisco Challenger Only 19 mjM, NEW YORK. Feb. IT Jack Brlt- H ton, who was whipping first rate pug- Hj .lists before Dave Shade of Call for - Inia over nearu oi a ooxing giove, win defend his world's welterweight title 1 atcainst the youngster in a 15-round i decision match here tonlfjht. It is said that the champion, be-i be-i ,-iuse of hie age he is 37 has start- I ed to slip and that he will not be ablo I lo withstand the assaults of the 10-ysar-Old lad frorp tho family ot fighting fight-ing Shadeg of San Francisco. Jack met David in Portland. Ore., about a year ago and ho remembers the occasion. He was floored once in the early sessions of that scrap, but ' ftrose to fight his way through tho ro-I niolnder of tho 10 rounds. The contest con-test was Judged a draw. Shade has succeeded since lie trans- ! ferred his punching activities from the west coast to the east His ag- gresslvenoss has carried him to vie-tors vie-tors in a majority of his bouts. Brltton hasn't been very active in the past year, excepting: in a series of bouts with lesser light They say ho hasn't the punch, nor the shiftiness that marked his bout-s of several years ago. ronlcbt' bout, in one li'snerr hnv been likened to the Zbyaxko-Caddock j restllng match of several weeks ago I Stajilslaus. tho champion, near the 50 I mark in years, defended his title against Caddc k. Just turning 28. Cad-dock Cad-dock was good and aggressive, but Stanislaus Still haa tho title. |