El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-11

p ILWAUKEE' Wis, June 1.-THE
! between Packy Mcfarland Of
I Chicago and Freddie Welsh of England,
which took place at the National Sport
| ing club in London the other night,
/ comes as a surprise to many Of the fol-
! lowers of the game here, and also as a
! disappointment. 1t was a disappoint-
| ment in the fact that Mcfarland, &C
/ cording to all reports received from the
| other side, won the battle on points
| but was given only a draw. OF course
| it is better to wait for later reports
| Of the contest and to get the opinion of
| the best critics over there, but at the
same time, it is very evident that Nc
Farland had the better of the contest,
| in fact shade enough to warrant giving
| him the decision. The referee, Thomas
Scott, has offered no explanation as yet
regarding the decision, and therefore we
are in the dark regarding his side Of
| the story 1t is we'll known fact that
| English referees decide a great deal on
the points a man scores IN Il DoXlng
contest anf\ not so much on the rough
| mitigating that prevails to great eX-
tent in this country
Even from this standpoint, McFar-
land seemed to have had the best or
ii, for most of them agree that he out
pointed Welsh in 10 of the 20 rounds.
It is too bad that a decision was not
reached. for then the winner would have
been in a position to demand a match
with Ad Wolgast for the lightweight
championship of the world. As 1t IS,
Welsh and Mcfarland are no nearer to
settlement of their relative merits than
they were two years ago. They have
met three times, once when Mcfarland
got decision over Freddie in lO
round go in Milwaukee, the second time
in % round draw at Los Angeles, and
the third time a 20 round draw in Lon
don. Boxing, a London publication, is
endeavOring to get them together again
in a % round bout and has offered
purse Of $500. Packy is undecided as
to whether he will make another
match as he can get better money by
returning to the United States and TAX
ing on some of the lesser lights If
they do not meet in England at this
time, the chances are they will be
matched in this country when WEIGH
comes over, which he no doubt will do
when he finds out he cannot get on
another contest with Mcfarland.
AID Wolgast, the present holder of the
lightweight title, is being besieged on
all sides with challenges, and the
chances are he will be kept busy when
he reaches the Pacific coast AID has
been taking to the automobile habit
and has been having some fast rides
around Cadillac, Mich. As yet he has
not taken to the racing game and there
is some hope he will keep away from it
for he has jumped into two accidents
since getting his machine. His next
contest is scheduled~for June 10 with
Jack Redmond of Milwaukee and will
be held before the Badger Athletic club
of Milwaukee.
Wolgast has been doing light work
80 4
dition so that he will not require
great amount Of work to put him on
edge for this contest Redmond has
been training for some time under the
supervision of his manager Teddy
Murphy, and is in the pink of condi
ton, SO that the 10 round bout is able
TO be the fastest 10 rounds that Mr..
Wolgast has travelled in some time.
There will be an awful mixup in the
lightweight decisions if Mr. Redmond
should happen TO put one over on the
champion, but Ad has no fear of that,
for he has twice met Redmond and de-
feated him in short round contests. 1t
will be bout, however, that will draw
a great many people from out Of town
and the club is preparing to take care
of delegations from Chicago, St. Paul, |
Minneapolis and other cities.
f1Bnl uOpe 1ISQuSit1N goes wrong.
the same as in baseball and other |
games 1t is certainly hard to figure |
out where Pal Moore, the Philadelphia |
bantam weight, has anything on Jim !
Driscoll, the British featherweight, and !
still harder to figure out where Jimmy /
Walsh, the bantam weight champion, |
has anything on either one. Still, ac- |
cording to the dope, Walsh is better |
than either of the other two
The Philadelphia papers gave Moore |
the popular verdict over Driscon in a |
six round contest there week or two |
ago. Now comes Walsh with a verdict !
over Moore in a II round go at Boston. |
Walsh is strictly a 11S pound man. |
while the other two are above the |
feather. weight limit, 124 to 126 pounds |
suiting them nicely. 1t is doubtful, |
however, whether Walsh would be able |
to hold his own in a battle with Dris |
coll. for he would be giving away too |
much weight to a clever boy like Jim.
Driscon has been i'll since his bout with |
Moore, having had a touch of fever.
and 1t is very probable he was not in |
the best Of condition when he met the !
Philadelphia boy, although it does not
seem fair to take away any of the |
glory from Moore, for the little fellow
certainly put up great contest against |
the foreigner.
Driscoll is on the road to recovery,
however. in New York, and expects to !