. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 25 (June 24, 1921)] . enting on the defeat of theItalian whom the Earl of Bath had seenlay out three stalwart fellow-citizenson the quays of Venice, wrote that hewas cuffed deaf, dumb and blind bydoughty British Tom. Eighteen years elapsed before anotherinternational bout was staged. In thatyear Monsieur le Petit of St. Pierre,France, six feet four in his HEEs andweighing 250 pounds, crossed the Chan-nel to try conclusions with Britainsbest exponent of le boxe. While touring theEnglish fairs, Petitfloored so manystout yokels that hisfame reached thec
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No. 25 (June 24, 1921)] . enting on the defeat of theItalian whom the Earl of Bath had seenlay out three stalwart fellow-citizenson the quays of Venice, wrote that hewas cuffed deaf, dumb and blind bydoughty British Tom. Eighteen years elapsed before anotherinternational bout was staged. In thatyear Monsieur le Petit of St. Pierre,France, six feet four in his HEEs andweighing 250 pounds, crossed the Chan-nel to try conclusions with Britainsbest exponent of le boxe. While touring theEnglish fairs, Petitfloored so manystout yokels that hisfame reached thecauliflowered earsof Jack Slack, cham-pion, also playingthe fairs in sparringexhibitions. Whentheir trails crossedat Norwich, Slackchallenged the for-eigner to battle for£100 a side. Slack,one-time butcher andnoted swashbuckler,champion under thefirst ring rules, of-fered to fight withor without rules—preferably without,for after all a fightwas a fight. This unrestrictedstyle of quarrellingsuited the French-man. At the start,he almost chokedSlack to death and. threw him off the platform, which waseight feet high. Fortunately, Slacklanded on the heads and outstretchedarms of his followers. Slack, however, won in the fourthround. With an overhead blow he closedPetits right eye and by a flying tackle,using his head and shoulder for a ramhe butted the Frenchman off the plat-form in his turn. The challenger fe\on his back and everyone thought h •had been killed. But he staggered tohis feet and bowed to Slack that he ha 1had enough. After a GermanSwiss, Tom Juchau,the Disher, hadfallen before BillDarts, the Dyer,for the champion-ship in 1766, andafter the Irishman,Michael Ryan, hadfailed twice to de-feat Tom Johnson,champion, the Brit-ish began to believethat the pugilisticcrown was destinedto belong forever tcan Anglo - Daniel Men-doza, born in London of Spanish-Jew-ish parents, hearddifferent. Mendozatrounced the bestsecond-raters in thekingdom, and thenchallenged Ric
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