The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-20
MFARlAND CARES
NOT FOR PUBLIC
Tactics Are too Raw, Says
Naughton, and Boards
Should Suspend Him.
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San Francisco. Dec. cO.-Wiscon-
1dn's boxing commission has placed
PacHey Mcfarland under the ban for
2 year because he refused to weigh
IN Tor Jack Britton recently at Mil
raukee and then gave a further ex-
hibftfon Of his independence by re-
ausing to extend himself when turned
loose in the ring.
This 10 an right as far az it eoes,
q unless other commissions and 9TH
er fight centerA. where there are no
commissions. uphold the Milwaukee
ruling. Packey will MOI be hampered
10 n extent in coping the shekeIs.
Harry Weldon, tn ewe1l-remebered
sporting editor Of the Cincinnati En-
sluirer. used to tell how a callow
:voung pusilistic critic in a small town
threatened to roast a certain boxer TO
"a turn.
Go right ahead.'' said the ringman.
why ! can walk Of Of your circula-
ton In nv minutes"
Considering the sreak expanee q
the pugilistic territory. Packey might
say something similar to the Nilwau.
lSee commission.
There are a million places where a
ma of McFarland's talent can pick
up money in thousand-dollar lots by
performing fndifferently."
When II comes to locating these
places Packey liz the original path
finder. There are towns in the Omitted
States, in TACT. which are never men.
toned in print excepting when Nc
T"arland visits them in his profession
al capacity.
Such being the case. about all Wis
Consin has accomplished has been to
limit the feld Of Packey's operations
0lightly.
More's the pity, for while Packey
- a terribly nice fellow" in private
Hfe. his notions Of pugilistic ethics are
vile. It is said it was q favorite trick
and then refuse to show how far he
had kept, away from the notch.
This fellow 10 lucky to get a match
with me at ALL" was a bit Of repartee
employed by Packey when asked to
weigh. And then he would not weigh.
And the crowd having gathered and
h money being all done up in paper
wrappers in the biz Office, the pro-
tmoter and the other fighter felt con-
strained to let Packey have his own
way.
II the Milwaukee incident has ac-
complished nothing more, it has
branded Mcfarland a trickster in
matters Of weight, and whether he
II in four orner " Owvhee,
there will be no chance Of his contin-
uing his old-line practice Of lodging
the scales.
In future when he agrees to do a
certain weight he will have to live up
to his contract, for forewarned is fore
armed. and the contention that there
81 a fool born every minute does not
apply In the fighting belt.
He weighed away over 40 pounds
when he boxed Tommy Murphy in
New York. and a report ONE from
Milwaukee that he scaled LAT when
lie weighed in the presence Of one of
the commissioners prior to taking the
ring with Britton.
The truth about Packey evidently
5s that he is q full-blGwn middle
weight and a suspicion exists that he
1s o at all eager to earn distinction
In his proper sphere.
He has outweighed his opponents
and has outclassed them to such an
extent that what has been strenuous
endeavor to them has been simply
vaudeville to him.
He has been smoked out, however,
and he will have to do some real
fighting If he elects to continue in
the game.
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