Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-28
BROCK MAKES
MANY FRIENDS
BETTING SPORTS GIVE HIM
GOOD CHANCE
DO NOT FIGURE MCFARLAND AS
BIG cINcH
Form That Cleveland Boy Showed
Against carsey Used to Make
Him Figure Even In Scrap
with Packy

There is a growing belief among the
fight fans of OILS Angeles that Packy
Mcfarland has undertaken about the
biggest pugilistic contract of his career
in going against Phil Brock over ten
round route next month. Nearly every
close observer of local fights has an
opinion that the scrap will be one Of
the greatest battles ever seen in the
local ring, and all give the Cleveland
boy an even chance to win.
Had Brock not fought Carsey recent
", and thereby showed that he did not
put up his real fight against Freddie
Welsh, he would have gone into the
ring almost wholly neglected in the bet
ting, as his form against Welsh tum-
bled his stock immensely. But he
made such clean and thorough JOB
of his argument with Carsey that the
fans generally believe that he Is back
in the same grand form that enabled
him to whip George Memsic to a fraz-
zle. Because of this, the betting sports
are warming UP to Brock In great
style, and the Cleveland boy will carry
a ton of public money when he meets
the unbeaten Chicago boy.
The fact that Mcfarland Is unbeaten
is sufficient % send him into the fight
as an odds-on favorite, but his record
will not whip Brock, say the boys VINO
bet on fight results, and he will have
to whip the Cleveland boy before a
large number OF them will believe 1t is
in him to do 1t. Brock is game,
Furnishing fighter, with heart as stout
as steel, and he declares that Packy
is made to order for him. They fight
along the same lines, each being at his
best when opposing a fighter who will
stand up and slug with him. q
With two hard-hitting, game fighters
of equal weight mauling away at each
other, ten rounds probably will be
sufficient to settle their little individ-
ual supremacy argument. One of them
probably will take the count. 1t must
be admitted that few of the boys Packy
has fought are of the same good class
possessed by Brock. The Cleveland
boy is a tough proposition for any OF
them to whip when he is right, as he
proved In his scraps with Memsic and
Carsey. The average close observing
sportsman Is inclined, In the language
of the turf, to throw out his perform
anee against Welsh. as it did not rep
resent his true form, as proved by
either of his other local engagements.
Brock is working like galley slave
in his Venice training quarters, and
Manager McRea says he will send the
kiddo into the ring In as fine condition
as when he fought Memsic and Carsey,
and that means almost perfection as
regards condition. Brock realizes what
a good boost 1t would be for him to
give PaclEy his first decisive beating,
and he is putting his soul into his work
Danny Webster is his chief training
partner, and Kid Trennel and other
scrappers are working occasionally
with the Cleveland lad.
Brock went through the usual routine
yesterday, beginning with the newt
able road work In the morning and
ending with the gymnasium stunts and
boxing in the afternoon. About 300
persons, a good crowd for Blue Mon
day, sat in the amphitheater and wit
messed the afternoon workout. He
boxed five rounds with Trennell and
three rounds with Webster He added
a huge sand punching bag to his train
ing paraphernalia yesterday, Al Kauf-
mann lending him the dummy he used
during the training period.
Mcfarland boxed four rounds with
AL Vogt and like number with Charlie
Anslinger. Previous to boxing Packy
played handball with Trainer Pat Kin
ealy for twenty minutes. skipped the
rope for ten minutes, punched the bag
for a similar period and put in another
ten minutes at shadow boxing. He is
in excellent condition, and K1nealy
promises that Pachy will be ready to
fight for his life when he meets Brock.