Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-26
CORBETTPRA|SES
WORK OF PACKEy
Says Mcfarland Is RightfuI
Challenger for AID VOL
CASTS Crown.
WEIGHT QUESTION IS
DISCUSSED AGAIN
Fight Critic Believes the Light
weight Limit Should Be
1876 Pounds.
BY James J. Corbett.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special dispatch to The Star.
NEw YORK. March 25-Lightweight
Champion Ad Wolgast viii! have the time
OF his young life If he ever gets into the
ring with one Patrick Mcfarland Of Chi
cage After witnessing his classy exhibit
ton of boxing with Owen Moran as op-
ponent New Workers are willing to swear
Packey is the best ever Old sports who
are fond of raving about the markable
performances of the old-timers admit that
nothing to surpass McFarland's beautiful
display of fistic wares ever has been seen
In a Gotham ring.
owen Moran can show lot of speed on
occasions and was thought TO be as
clever as any boy in the game of his
weight but Packey made him look rather
like q novice in their ten-round bout. He
had the little Englishman guessing
throughout the contest. Packey showed
everything the best boxers carry and his
feinting alone was more than worth the
price of admission.
Moran Hands It" to Packey.
Good judges agree that the clever Frank
Erne and the old master Joe Cans
never had anything on Mcfarland. The
wonderful display of science took the
was over there was no question as to
which was the better boxer. Even Mo-
ran admitted he had met his master. but
offered as an excuse that lie was giving
away TOO much. beef. Owen may rest
satisfied with the knowledge that he was
licked BY the best man in his class and
there is no disgrace attached to honor
able defeat.
OF course Packey did not make the 133
pounds ringside. which will be demanded
oil hDfn mo fh hot vx-o al
is contaminated, but he did what other
hghtweights before him have done and
weighed in at 1875. Frank Erne, Joe Cans
and Jack McAuliffe regarded a 135-pound
opporent as legitimate lightweight and
did not insist upon a lower scale. Cans
won the championship at about that fig
are from Erne. and the only champion of
recent years who insisted on the 1s;
pound thing and got away with it was
our esteemed friend Battling Nelson.
Wolgast Holds to 1873.
The present champion, being a natural
1SS-pounder, will most likely object to
letting a clever boxer like Mcfarland
come I'm at heavier figure. Since Packey
10 cleverly demonstrated his superiority
ever the only man who ever knocked out
Battling Nelson, Ii is the opinion of the
critics that fight between him and VOL
CAST probably is farther Off than ever.
next month They figure that AID. being
anxious to hang on to the title as long
- possible. will avoid a meeting with
Mac. and the champions recent an
nouncement OF contemplated retirement
would suggest that he has no intention
e nsking his 1aurels In a match with
tho Chicagoan.
Mcfarland has started an agitation for
Q revision Of the weights, and, by the
way. what has become of that conven-
ton Of so-called Federation Of Boxing
cfubs'' which was booked for this month
and which was to be called primarily
70 adjust the scale Of weights in the
various Glasses? Packey contends that
nearly all the championship bat
ties Of the last twenty years have been
contested at from 1876 to 138 pounds, and
that 1SS r1ngside Is not fair weight to
govern the possession Of the title.
Former Weight Higher.
He cites as his authority that .Kid"
Lavigne met Dick Burge. the English
champion, at 13S pounds at o'clock, and
that Erne won the title from Lavigne at
LIS pounds, weighing in at 8 pm Also
that Cans defeated Frank for the honor
at 136 pounds, scaling at o'clock. There
fore Packey insists he is justified ii. de-
handing match with the present cham
pion at 13J pounds and agrees to weigh
IN at q o'clock.
According to precedent there Is much
justice to Macs claim. but Wolgast has
the Bat Nelson statistics to fall back
the lightweight limit I believe 1t was
Billy Nolan, one time manager of the
Dane. who inaugurated the system OF