Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
SIGN FIGHTERS
FOR THE FOURTH
WELSH AND MCFARLAND WILL
MEET AGAIN
JEFFRlEs CLUB GETS CLASSY 25-
ROUND CONTEST
Packey Gets His $4,000 Guarantee, and
scrappers VIII Divide Half of
Gate Receipts, 65 and 35
Per Cent
BIZ ARTHUR e. DUNNING


Packey Mcfarland of Chicago will fur
nish the Fourth OF July battle before
the Jeffries Athletic club.
The final decision as to the much
discussed and long procrastinated
match was made last night, when
Freddie affixed his signature to ar
ticles calling for the meeting of the
fighters before the Jeffries club the af-
ternoon of the big national holiday, In
q twenty-five-round contest.
After a week of squabbling over
terms, in which Packey held his SER
vices at first at $4,000 guarantee and
later reduced to $4,000, the men finally
have come together, and the most
prominent contest of the day, with the
exception of the Gans-Nelson battle at
San Francisco, is surety
Packey agreed day before yesterday
to sign articles on a guarantee basis,
and it was thought that the match
was assured, when Welsh finally was
approached by Baron Long and de-
manded larger share for his end than
the club finally thought advisable.
Freddie, however, had agreed to fight
before the Jeffries club and all that
was necessary to do was to convince
him that the terms offered by the pro-
moters were reasonable. After day
spent at Catalina, however, Freddie
got into his thinking cap and wisely
decided to come to an agreement. Ac-
cordingly, shortly after his return to
the Angel city last night, everything
was arranged.
Mcfarland is allowed his demand for
a guarantee of $4,000 and the fighters
are to split so per cent of the gross re-
ceipts on a basis of e5 per cent to the
winner and So per cent to the loser.
Should Freddie win Packey will get at
least $4,000, while should the Chicago
lad be the top man Packey will get
the full 65 per cent of the fighters
end, no matter how much this sum
may exceed his guarantee.
1873 Pounds at O'Clock
1t was decided that the weight shall
be 1873 pounds at o'clock the morning
of the battle. Both men will be well
into their training inside of ten days,
as Freddie, although in great shape,
will leave nothing undone to be ready
for the Windy city lad, while McFar-
land does not underestimate his oppo-
nent.
The management of the Jeffries club
will wire Packey his transportation
this morning. Packey, it is announced,
Will lcdtS lOllISul lOI LUIS aLSOloSs IL
is given out that he will in all prob
ability train at Jack Doyle's South Side
Athletic club, where Freddie Welsh
prepared for his meeting with Phil
Brock. Mcfarland probably will de-
pend on local boys to do his workout
stunts. Welsh in all probability will
train at Venice, the beach town hav-
ing offered him attractive inducements
to get into shape in the hearing of the
waves at Kinney's place. By the
terms of the match Welsh is allowed
$3.50 for training expenses.
Freddie will leave shortly, probably
today, for San Diego for a few days
pleasure trip. He will take his sister
to Mexico on a short sightseeing excur-
sion and then will settle down into the
routine of hard camp work, which he
will not let up for weeks.
Big Fight Coup
BY their action in securing Packey
and Welsh in a return match the JEFF
fries club has put through one of The
biggest coups pulled off by fight pro-
moters in the country in many moons.
The card is second only to the Cans
Nelson fight, and it is only owing to
the fact that the champion of all light
weights is entered in the northern bat
tie that it has precedence over the
meeting of these two game and speedy
little lightweights in the south. Sam
Berger. the San Francisco fight pro-
moter, arrived here. several days ago
for the express purpose of signing
Welsh and Mcfarland, after having
sent Billy Nolan to the Windy city to
secure the pork packers consent.
Freddie would have none of him, hav
ing agreed to stay by the Jeffries club,
and the result was the signature of the
British fighter on the vellum last night.
The match will prove the greatest
drawing card of the local fight game
in many months. No more classy
fighters in the 133-pound division can
be named offhand than Freddie and
Packey, with the single exception of
the holder of the title. The two Fourth
of July contenders are speedy and
clever and the battle over the twenty
five-round route should be decided de-
cisively.
Former Fight Close
Despite that Packey holds a ten
round decision over Welsh, the eastern
criticisms of the battle tend to show
that 1t was a hairline call and that
Welsh had at the very least an even
break. This stamps the Britisher with
all kinds of class and makes the return
engagement a most attractive one.
Unquestionably this battle will draw
a big crowd for the afternoon engage
ment and the presence of big Jim JEFF
fries as the third man In the ring will
add to the proportions of the audience.
The big arena at Vernon should be
chock full when the first gong sounds
for this fray which is practically one
of the semi-finals In the lightweight
championship affairs. The winner al
most without question, will meet the
winner of the Gans-Nelson fight, and
this means that should Freddie Welsh
defeat Packey this final bout will
come to Los Angeles.
GRACE COLLEGE CHAMPION