Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-05
PACKY SAYS HE
WILL NOT LOAF
PROMISES TO WHIP BROCK
WITHOUT DELAY
EXPECTS TO WIN BY KNOCKOUT
EARLY IN FIGHT
Cleveland Boy Also Gives Similar
Pledge, and the Indications Are
Favorable to Great Battle
Friday Night

After his workout yesterday after
noon Packy Mcfarland was so pleased
with hts condition that he consented
to predict the outcome of his battle
Friday night with Phil Brock and an
idea Of his great confidence can be
gained in the statement he made in
this interview. Packy says that he in
tends to go into the ring and end the
fight long before It has gone half the
distance, and nothing short OF knock
out victory win be at all satisfying to
him. He said:
Il will knock this fellow out, and do
it quickly. There win be no loafing this
time and the pace will be a fierce one
from beginning to end. My friends will
have no occasion to criticise my fight
this time, as intend to fight from the
first tap Of the gong until stop Brock
and will be going at my best speed all
the time. certainly am In great con-
dition, feel so fine that I only wish
Brock could be turned into Nelson for
the occasion, as I surely would win
the championship, and do 1t quickly.
Mark my words--a knockout Friday
night and in Jig time at that"
That is the kind Of talk his friends
like to hear from him. Packy might
have. kept his great fighting record
clean had he gone into the ring with
Freddie Welsh with the same deter
mination that he announces he VIII
carry into the fight with Brock. And
If Paoky lives up to his promises, as
he undoubtedly will, the scrap should
be one of the greatest battles ever
fought by lightweights.
Brock has mapped out his plan of
action along practically the same lines
that Packy says he will adopt for the
fight. Both are determined to waste
no time whatever after the first gong,
the result and each confidently pre-
diets that the scrap will. end with a
knockout long before the scheduled
limit.
Nobody knows just how fast and
fiercely this pair of great little light
weights can fight. Each, while ordi-
narily clever, is fast and depends prin-
cipally upon his wallop to win his
fights. This means that they must
fight at close range all the time, as
sluggers can do nothing at long range
fighting.
Mcfarland will have an advantage
of from four to six pounds in weight
when they enter the ring. Naturally.
he is of bigger build and heavier than
Brock, who could make 12S pounds If
necessary and be strong. In the CATCH
weight proposition, Brock is the loser,
but neither he nor his manager, Cap
McRea, will acknowledge that this will
prove to be any serious handicap.
Brock is feeling like a champion, has
trained for this fight as If a champion
ship depended upon 1t and will fight
as if he were defending champion
ship title.
Training practically is at an end for
both of them. Each will stick around
the camp for the remaining hours pre-
ceding the fight, but boxing is at an
end and only the finishing touches re-
main to be put on. AS there is no
weight requirement, they will have only
their lighting condition to look after,
and with their long and strenuous
course of training showing such grand
results, satisfactory to them and their
friends, there is little else to be done
until the gong sends them after each
other.
Bubbles Robinson, the clever negro
lightweight, and Kid Trennel of st.
Louis win furnish the main preiimin-
ary event This bout should be quite
a good card in itself. Trennel holds
two decisions over Young Loughrey,
the crack eastern lightweight, and has
a great record otherwise. Robinson is
q remarkably clever fighter and has
been putting in the training period at
developing his punch, as he wants to
win by the knockout route. Al Vogt
and the Harlem Coffee Cooler will try
their little fracas over again and as 1t
will be the last chance the negro boy
viii get in Los Angeles unless he wins
decisively, he will try to reverse the
tables on Vogt this time.