WILDE AND MOORE.

NZ Truth, Issue 749, 25 October 1919, Page 8

WILDE AND MOORE.

According- to English accounts of the Jimmy Wilde- Pal. Moore contest, the American was rather easily beaten on points. The interviews with the men subsequent to the contest are interesting-. This is what Moore told a newspaper man: "I missed the chance of my, life m the sixteenth round. I had him m a real fix then; he knew it, and I knew it. At no period of the fight did he have me m such a plight. Every moment I thought I was certain to get m a blow that would finish him, but somehow It didn't come oft, and he recovered In the subsequent J rounds. "There Is some misapprehension about the blow m that .round with which I drew bipod. It has been said that I butted him or that the lace of an open glove tore his nose. What happened was that he swung my right across at me and missed. I swung^my right across at him and hit. him with the closed glove. Then we got to close quarters, and I hit him again . on the same spot with the closed glove. That was why the blood came. "From the thirteenth round onward I thought that I was winning, but, mind you, I was .calculating that blows with the open glove gounted. They do m America, and I presume that they did when I beat Wilde at Albert Hall. "It was a great surprise to me when, m the tenth round, Mr. Corri cautioned me on the subject I had been trying for these blows, and getting m so many that I reckoned I had secured a good lead. I know that the referee was fair m his interpretation of the National Sporting Club rule; but to the end I had it m my head that the blows with the open glove had counted, and that I was winning. For that reason I was quite content to defend m the last round, when Wilde forced the pace desperately, although I consider that that round was even on points. "There was little power m Wilde's left, but he. hit hard with the right although he did not mark me except for this little swelling under the left eye. I am anxious now for another match, and ready for it at any time here. We ihave won one each, and I hope Wilde will give me a third. "The crowd was wonderful. I .like England, and have pretty well made up my mind to settle down hero for good."