Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-17
TO BEGIN
WORK THURSDAY
TRAINING QUARTERS TO BE
CHOSEN TODAY
INsPEcTs VERNON, ARCADIA AND
SAN PEDRO SITES
Clever Lightweight Has Most Remark"
able Record of Any Fighter In
the Ring Today-Never
Was Defeated

Packy Mcfarland, the unbeaten
| hero of forty-six fights, arrived in Los
| Angeles shortly before daybreak yes
terday morning to begin training for
his twenty five-round scrap July 4
with Freddie Welsh, the English cham
pion, before the Jeffries Athletic club.
| He put in the day inspecting points of
| interest in and about Los Angeles and
| in viewing the several locations offer
| ed him for training quarters, but did
| not ioLid1 to accept any of the train
| ing qua' ters offered him. He will go
| to San PeCro this afternoon and after
inspecting the advantages of the har-
Dor city as training resort he Will
make decision and will start light
work tomorrow.
He looked over the training quar-
tiers provided by the South Side Ath-
letic club at Vernon and afterward
was taken for an auto ride to Ar
cadia by the reception committee" of
the Jeffries club, where he viewed the
quarters offered by the capital city of
Baldwin's kingdom. He would not
| location, preferring to see all the avail
able sites before making decision,
| but 1t is quite likely that he will go to
Vernon to train in Difference to the
| wishes of all the fans with whom he
| talked. The accessibility of the Ver-
non quarters and the advantages of a
| short ride and cheap car fare are
strong factors in favor of that resort,
and these probably will influence his
decision.
| Packy is the most confident fighter
one ever met. He has much justifica-
ton in this confidence, too. as ne never
Las tasted the bitter pill of defeat. al
| though having fought forty-six bat
| ties in his brief career in the ring.
IL L., old xrak 1. &c
| whipped nearly all the champions
| in the lightweight division. His record
shows that he never has shown so
| poorly as to permit an opponent to get
| a draw with him, winning thirty-four
| fights by the knockout route and OBJ
tanning twelve decisions
| He Is a remarkable fighter in more
ways than one. In addition to having
made such a remarkable showing in all
| his fights, he has permitted only seven
| opponents TO stick ten rounds with
him and in the forty-six battles he has
fought he has been forced to scrap only
| 244 rounds, making the average dura-
ton of his fights less than six rounds
each. He is not marked or SCARED as
result of punishment sustained and
the lack of a caulihower ear not only
does not bother him a bit. but on the
contrary constitutes one source of great
pride.
he is yOullt d.
ways wears a smile and deliberately
refuses to believe that there is any
serious side to this game of life. He
loves the fight game and gave a strik-
ing bit of evidence of this fact yes
terday when riding through Pasadena
viewing the beautiful homes on Orange
Grove avenue. He admired them very
much, but when asked If he would give
up fighting and lead a life of ease in
the event he should wake up some fine
morning and find million dollars in
his pocket, he said: mo, 1 would not
quit fighting for that sum, but would
buy me one of these nice homes and
live there between scraps"
He is accompanied by Harry Gill
more Jr, his manager, and Pat XII
nealy, his trainer. Harry Dunn, who
Is matched to fight Kid Carsey in the
preliminary to the McFarla nd Welsh
fight, probably will be one of his SPAR
ring partners, and other assistants will
be engaged from the local colony.