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Show f;:ance has h r "iUGS" IN ARMY New York. July 7 Harry Lewi, the welterweight championship claimant, claim-ant, is back In tswn after a stay of tseverai weeks in Paris. Lewie de- Clares he intends to ko out for the j middleweight title and says he will challenge Stanley Ketchel and Billy 1 Papke immediately. Lewis Is also an-; xious, he declared, to meet Willie 1 I. owls, as sotin as possible. He says . that ho heat the latter in the twenty-1 round fight In Paris which the referee i decided a draw.. Lewis has taken ou j weieht and thinks he will be able to defeat anybody who will make 15S ; I pounds ringside.- j j "There Is a lot. or pood materlul j among Frenchmen for tho development develop-ment of the fight game," ald Lewis, "but tbe general trouble on the continent con-tinent Is the fact that as soon a-s a 1 man has reached a fit state of develop-j develop-j ment he must enter me army. That I was the case with Adrian Hogan. I ; took Hogan In hand some time ago1 and taught him enough points about the gapie to make him the champion of France, although he is only a welterweight. wel-terweight. But next October he must j enter the army." ! |