Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — WILDE IS A GREAT BATTLER [ARTICLE]

WILDE IS A GREAT BATTLER

According to Ed Lewis of Minneapolis, Bantamweight Boxer Is Re- ' markably Fast Tn the opinion of Ed Lewis of Minneapolis, a former sport writer, who served in “Y” service in England, an nil-conquering Welshman, by name Jimmy Wilde, is going to clean up every bantamweight boxer in America. And Lewis ought to know, for he has handled ring affairs for years and can pick a fighter with one eye shut/ He writes that he recently saw Wilde fight Joe Camp at London ana was astonished at the form shown by the little fellow. Wilde is a townsman of Freddie Welsh, having been born in Pontypridd, Wales. He is twenty-six years old now, and it is safe to assume that he isn’t going to outgrow his class. They call him a flyweight Tn England, and he weighs only 105 pounds. He has whipped everything over there within ten pounds ,of his heft, and Is regarded as a real sensation. ,‘TII go on record right now," writes Lewis, “as saying he can beat anything in the United States up to Ilf) pounds. He is remarkably fast and hits terribly hard. His straight left is a bird. The boys at home will go crazy when they get a look at him.”