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Ted "Kid" Lewis (born Gershon Mendeloff; 28 October 1893 1970) was an English boxer who won the world welterweight (147 lb) championship. Lewis was born in a gas-lit tenement in the Aldgate Pump section of London s East End as Gershon Mendeloff. One of his brothers became a boxer under the name of Lou (Kid) Lewis. It was as a member of London s Judean Athletic Club that Mendeloff assumed the name Kid Lewis ("Ted" was added later, in America). At 14 he fought for sixpence and a cup of tea. He later won the Club s flyweight title, and took home a cup of imitation silver.

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Ted "Kid" Lewis (born Gershon Mendeloff; 28 October 1893 1970) was an English boxer who won the world welterweight (147 lb) championship. Lewis was born in a gas-lit tenement in the Aldgate Pump section of London s East End as Gershon Mendeloff. One of his brothers became a boxer under the name of Lou (Kid) Lewis. It was as a member of London s Judean Athletic Club that Mendeloff assumed the name Kid Lewis ("Ted" was added later, in America). At 14 he fought for sixpence and a cup of tea. He later won the Club s flyweight title, and took home a cup of imitation silver.