The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-12
Crescent City May Also Witness . Hsavyweight Engagement With / Barry saa Maryis Hart ss
 the Principals.

BVmery .Wno generally Durn OV-cenl cigars. there would not be a great rush of spcrts, leaving Montgomery for the Great White Way If this fight hap pens to be in. Pelicanville. the chances gre that a. good bunch of Montgomery yilie & Nashville trains headed for New Orleans: Now incidentally the fact that a lot of Montgomery sports may or may not be et the rinEslde iy have the effsct of. bfeaking IntoI the arransements of Messrs Nelson and Weich. That fight win come of. Alst Tshs s seTs ,ls ss fs.as tss sSSsmpiOn Sy.a of ass name of. Welch good and proper.
 The. Briton says that he has an offes of a light in Wales with a s12,50g set through with the Nelson affair in time to sal for England early in May He says. that he has $2.000 of his per- sonal funds: that he will use to. cover at him and that he has friends who will quickly, raise the other s3,OO0 He says that he would like to have the fight set for. at least twenty-five that, part of it. The Dane insists on 1S3 pounds ringside and the weights VIII 2robably go at those figures un- less Wetch sees an opening in that, to crawl out of the meeting.
 At any rate the light will be an in- tereeting anair. and Montgomery lovers of the boxing same are looking for. wsra 13 great time if it is pulled
 A line will probably be had on Welch when ses meets Young Erne one week from tomorrow down in New Orleans. ,V; Wslch is said now to be at 1ss pounds pounds before the night of the goth.
 Thonapson Wants Fight.
 Cyclone" Johnny Thompson. the Ill., inois Jightweight who was In with lie wants meeting with both Nelson and sWelch. Thompson's manager says that tn;cna he has posted 2 forfeit for a sS;ooeS bet with the the chIcago Journal, looks now as if the Battling Dane the next few montha Thompson's mTanSger also pays his respects to the Briton has been side stepping his man. As all of them are in the Cres- cent City now it will be interesting to torlcal contest within the next few
 Another fight that should prove d hummer is the one framed up in New Hart and Jimmie Barry for the heavies and from the records of the two fight CTS the scrap ought to be a corking
 Speaking of Hart Louisville paper Marvin Hart, who mets Jim Barry in 8 twenty round boxing contest at New Orleans, February z4. was Louis- boxing game. He had shown some form In amateur contests, and was prevailed upon one night to take the place of a tighter who failed to show That was in December, 1898.
 Hart roughed Schiller about the ring and finally knocked him out in the fourth round That scrap gave Marvin cleaning all the middleweights and lightweights around Louisville. Schil- Ter got 2 return match In. February. 1900. and was Knocked stin in four rounds. Now he is acting as Hart's trainer Lou Selfker. the fighting bar Der. was the next of local conseduence to go. down before Marvin. as he had imported to tame him. but failed and fouled him deliberately to. avoid a Knockout. A return engagement re- suited In Hpbert's taking the count fin the sixth. Then Pete Trainor, who had some reputation In the Middle West felt Marvin's wallop.
 A Fighting Editor.
 Ed Ruckers sporting editor of the weight fighter under the name of Tom Tracey, and had stood twenty rounds before Kid -Lavigne, losing the decfs- ion. took Hart up. Fucker was then AA11h6B BiuS AHc AuultOIlun 0RntSN in Louleville. Al welnig, the bicyclist- pugtist, was brought along, and down ed Then came Jimmy Ryan, who also fell. About this time Tommy Ryan, for so many Sears middleweiRlt cham. Tommy West in seventeen rounds.
 Hart was given match with West and whipped him in sixteen rounds get on e match, taking on Dan Cree don, Kid Carter, Billy Stift and others. winning by quick knockouts and break ing intD the national o9sI llmsllght.
 And now comes the crack that they want to frame up a fight between Al Kaufman and Jehries. It looks like Hart. Barrie or any. of the rest of to get a chance at the big boiler mak- . CT because they happen to think that he Is not in any kind. of shape. It would look better all round for Kauf- chell. Papke. Hart or some of the ott = CTS. Of course 1t Is the biggest kind of an add for Kaufman press agents to challenge, Jeffries for a s1O.O0O side the big boiler maker to take any chances until he knocks the waddin9 out of the Texas negro. Johnson.
 Must pay Debt.
 In the meantime Freddie Welch Is getting all of. the free advertising pos sible. This Is from a New Orleans
 Freddie Welch. English lightweight champion who meets Young Erne in a twenty round bout at the Westside Feb. 20, was much amused this morn ing when told that Bat. Nelson had de- clared he will never light Packey Mo Farland until the stockyard boxer pays his debt.
 q don't know what debts Nelson has reference to- said Freddie unless he means a press clipping bureau. You know all of the pugs keep pretty close track of what the paper boys are say ing about us. Packey knew Bat had experience in that line and he got Nell son to recommend a company to him. Packey got a big bunch of clippings Maybe tome of them displeased him, but they say that for. some reason PAciKey didn't pay up. When they threatened to sue he reminded them thatehe had not reached the legal age ---twenty-one---and so Bat had to dig in his jeans as he had stood sponsor.
 Owes for a Hat.
 "Packey owes me % Stetson, but ktdded him about his losing the bet and I don't gues he'll pay. I was in Frisco once to see CoffrOth about get ting a match on with Nelson. McFTar- la nd went into the room just ahead Of me for the same purpose. CoffrOth had Ketchel. and Hugo Kelly matched up. He asked Mcfarland what he thought of the match and Packey replied he liked Hugo's chances. He offered to baf Kelly would win CORrOtf said he