Curious reticence in regard to the respective weights of the contestants in the Atlantic city contest. prevents definite identification of the title which was at stake, It reems that after an unspecified number of rounds John Lewis, Carpenter, was given the verdict over William Hut-Jcheson, miner, on a technical knock-'Out. The acrappiness of the report also fails to indicate the auspices: under which this apparently import-fant boxing match was fought. The {Convention of the American Federa-than of Labour is not recognized as} controlling authority in. sport. Mention of its association with' the contest must therefore be due to the entirely accidental circumstance that both boxers, for private reasons, happened to belong to it. On that ac-Jcount no doubt the ringside was thronged by their colleagues who seem to have taken the match with appropriate seriousness. It is probable that Mr. Joe Louis and Mr. James. Braddock will not allow this event to Interfere with their plans for an early meeting.
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