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Show Youthful Britisher Is New Fighting Sensation Teddy Baldock, a stripling of seventeen, seven-teen, has taken the boxing world by storm. Since he left school three years ago he has been in 124 battles and never has met with defeat. Often he fought twice daily in the East end, where he Is regarded as a hero. The experts are hopeful that he will prove to be a second Jimmy Wilde and retrieve some of Great Britain's lost pugilistic fame. The lad conies of fighting stock. His grandfather fought in the bareknuckle bare-knuckle days of the squared ci. :le, I and his father also was a fighter. I Baldock's latest vict.-ry whs the c'.:i-:-I night w-hen he defeated a Frenchman, j Antolne Merlo, In a brilliant exhibition. |