Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
SEVEN FIGHTS
ON THIS WEEK
BOTH LOCAL CLUBS ARRANGE
HOLIDAY CARDS
sEvENTY-oNE ROUNDS OF MAUI
ING ON SCHEDULE
Mcfarland Money So Plentiful That
Chicago Boy Has Become 2 TO
Favorite Over English
Champion

This is another fight week, each OF
the rival local clubs having good cards
up for decision before another Sunday
rolls around. Tom McCarey will stage
another of his popular price shows at
Maud Junction next Friday night and
Jim Jeffries will pull off his interna-
tional lightweight scrap between Packy
Mcfarland and Freddie Welsh the fol-
lowing afternoon at his Vernon club.
In all seven fights are carded and the
schedules call for seventy-one rounds
of mauling.
The card for Friday night at Nc
Carey's pavilion was completed Satur-
day. but since then Jim Tremble, who
was matched to fight ten rounds with
Jim Cameron, has called off the match.
saying that he would not have suffi-
cient time in which to train. Another
ten-round bout will be substituted to-
day.
Following are the scraps scheduled
for this week in Los Angeles clubs:
At Mccarey's Club
Frank Picato VS.. Jack Kennedy g rounds
Danny Webster VS.. Tommy Hem
Young 'ss Cofrec Cooler vs.. al vogt...s rounds
At Jeffries' Club
PacISy Mcfarland VS.. Freddie
welsh ..................2 .25 rounds
Kid Carsey VS.. Harry Dunn. IL rounds
McCarey's fight card will be offered
at popular prices and will give the
meal-ticket boys a chance to earn their
grubstakes. Three of the five bouts
give every promise of producing just
what the fans are hungering for and
as five of the ten scrappers engaged
are public favorites any old time they
go In the ring, because they fight all
the way and to win as speedily as pos
sible, the card is an attractive one.
Jeffries is Offering nearly the best
card that is possible of arrangement
at this time, and 1t brings together
such classy topnotchers that not only is
the local public deeply interested, but
the entire fight world will be much
concerned in the result. Mcfarland Is
the unbeaten lightweight who STANDS
jam up next to Cans, the champion, as
the most prominent fighter in that di-
vision today. He is to meet in Fred
die Welsh the undisputed light and
welter champion of England, and the
one boy who the fans pick as having
an even chance to give Packy his first
decisive beating.
Packy Is 2 to 1 Favorite
When the betting first opened upon
the McFarland-W Welsh fight Packy was
looked upon as having about a 10 to
chance of winning, his great record of
forty-seven unbeaten fights appealing
forcibly to the betting sports as worthy
of serious consideration. At that
Welsh made such a clean JOB of his
scrap with Phil Brock who beat George
Mensic, that he was not overlooked,
and despite Packy's record the Welsh
man was given serious chance to win.
Since the first days of betting, how
ever, the sports have been bidding
against each other with plenty of
money, and the predominance of Nc
Farland money has forced the price
steadily downward until it now is at
the 2 to / notch. Many Welsh sup
porters believe it will go farther down
and that Packy will be IN to l or to
/ ringside and are holding off for later
quotations. The lowest notch touched
so far among the big bettors occurred
Sunday, when prominent Spring
street merchant bet $3.50 against $1,000,
taking the Welsh end. Other previous
bets in the preceding twenty-four
hours had been laid at the odds of 10
to and several bets at those odds
were recorded, with the Welsh men
putting up $500 against $1,000. There
seems to be no end of money on both
sides, but the Mcfarland money Is
being brought out of hiding by the
dwindling odds and this has had a
tendency to help the Welsh hackers
considerably in getting better odds
than at first. 1t is no to 1 betting
proposition, however, as Welsh will put
up better fight than a 2 to 1 short
ender usually shows, his natural stand
ing in the betting on form probably
being about 10 to z.
Packy No False Alarm
Packy is no false alarm, but 1t Is
evident from flashes in his workouts
that he never has shown his real speed,
hitting ability and cleverness since he
began training at the South Side Ath-
letic club. He is as fast as Welsh,
nearly as clever, as great a blocker as
Cans and as hard a hitter, proportion
ately, as Battling Nelson. He has all
the elements of a truly great fighter
and his record is not a bit fuky. No
pace is too fast for him when fighting
a slugger and few lightweights can
stand up and wallop with him, owing
to his speed and punching ability.
Welsh men hope, however, that Fred
die will prove to be too fast for him
and that the WelShman will be able to
avoid anything that looks like stiff
fighting at close quarters. In fact, 1t
appears to many fans that it is to be
another case of Jeffries and Corbett
minus the result, which few care to
hazard, being a clever boxer without a
distinct punch against less clever but
more effective slugger. The average
fan has 1t figured out that the fight will
go at least fifteen rounds and may go
to the limit figuring Packy to win in
the event of a knockout and Welsh to
get the decision if the scrap goes to the
limit.
Real Class Involved
There is no argument at all as to the
class of the two boys. Each is loaded
down with class. Mcfarland has
proved his class in fights at all dis
tances and against all types of the mod
ern fighter, boxer and slugger included,
ana never has met his match. Dis
tance and pace do not worry him.
Welsh, too, has proved his class. He
is younger at the game and has not so
brilliant a record, but he has done all
that has been asked of him. with one
notable exception which is open TO dis
cussion, and he has gone all distances
ana against all classes of fighters and
boxers.
With two high class scrappers
matched, both of whom are clever and
speedy and most evenly matched In all
things except the punch, the fight on
paper appears to be a most attractive
one, with prospect that 1t will be as
fast and as fierce as the Attell-Neil
scrap that always will dwell in the
memory of local fans. The main oues-
tion seems to be is Welsh SO much |