Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1911 — TALE OF MOIR-WELLS FIGHT [ARTICLE]

TALE OF MOIR-WELLS FIGHT

New Yorker Declares Battle Between Two Englishmen Was Funniest of His Experience. “I have seen many prize fights in my time,” said a man who has just returned to New York from London, “but the one between Gunner Moir and Bombardier Wells was the funniest In my experience. “Hugh Mclntosh, the Australian, and our own Jimmie Britt are running a high-class fighting exhibition business over there, and the big hall back of the skating rink at the Olympia was packed with fully 6,000 people —lords and dukes and countesses and duchesses and the biggest kind of swells, who had put up at least twe guineas ($10.50) a seat, at least the most of them. Wells was the undefeated champion, so called, and a 20round contest was scheduled. In the first round Wells jabbed the Gunner one with his left and knocked him down, and he was so long getting up that people began to leave the hall. In the second round both men were down, with the referee counting*, and neither got up on time. Then, in the first minute of the third, Wells was knocked out. The whole battle was over In ten minutes. It would be a good thing if a lot of our prize fighters who are always knocking out each other in the newspapers would go over and do some real work.”