The San Francisco call., 1913-11-13
IxTT ERE'S my position. In
boxing Mcfarland at the

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LLTT ERE'S my position. In
ri boxing Mcfarland at the
weight he wants. 142
pounds, | would be going out of
my ciass--downward, don't you
seer That's always a risky thing
TO DO, and is even worse than GO
ing out Of ones class upward.
ou see. when a man goes up into
class above he has his strength.
When he scales downward. we'll.
ne usually has nothing by
skinny spine and prayer. /
haven't any doubt that / can
make 142 pounds. but I'm not go
ing TO try 1t. not even for the
$4,000 that ! might get by boxing
Packey. You don't hear of him
trying to make 1873 pounds any
more, do you? He's told you WHY
he don't. hasn't he? Well. NV
reasons are just as sound as his.
<<n nee i made a mistake in
! the middle weight class.
That was when / thought I
mad Eddie McGoorty down to a
nne point. He was so fine that he
proved the finest boxer / ever
tackled. I'm not willing to take
any more chances on this funny
weight question. Now, a lot of
people around here saw me weigh
10 = the afternoon | boxed Spike
heily IN kenosha, and / was in
good shape, too, but at the same
time l don't want to make a prac-
tice OF that. I'm sorry I'm neither
one thing nor the other, but sim
ply one of those mongrels as far
as poundage is concerned. Incl
dentally. I'd rather be a big mid
die weight than what I am. or
have 10 pounds off my present
weight. There are more action and
more money among the middles
than in any other class right
now
- IBBONS never was willing to
T express any sort of tangible
opinion about the middle
weights as he sized them up.
There isn't one OF them that isn't
tough he told me. "One week it
looks like this one was best. and
the next week something happens
to make you revise your dope
But, believe me. man in that
class has constant cause for
IVORY"
Go the talk that the St. Paul star
and the hero of the stock
yarls will meet in the ring
seems trifie far fetched at this
time, though there is a chance that
some smart promoter, Billy Gibson
In particular, who seems to have
something little short of a hyp-
motto influence over the Chicago
man, can make him change his
present views. Packey says it must
be 142 pounds or there will be no
match Digest that and then con-
slider what Gibbons says, and you
can see that the men are all but
hopelessly apart.
KHUCH silly stun Is being writ
Ivl ten about the immense
amounts OF money that Packey
is earning for a single appear
ance against some boob opponent
these days. Just now there is
yarn going the rounds that the
StoChydTuS DOy LOOK uoWH q mat
ter of $1,000 for the 80 minutes
of boxing he did the other night
in New York with Tommy Muir
ply. AS matter of fact. Packey
got but 81, 500 for that contest.
as the total receipts didn't
amount to $1,000, the Chicagoan
getting 80 per cent of the total.
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KTEvER has a fighter given
IN better exhibition of the real
clever stuff that makes cham
pions than did Cal Delaney
against Matty McCue in the Ra-
cine ring Tuesday night. The
easy, effective manner in which
Cal brushed aside with a quick
sweep of his gloves the best eff
forts of the little Racine star
shows that Delaney has absorbed
much Of the marvellous skill that
Johnny Kilbane possesses and has
profited more than a little from
his long association with the
feather weight champion. Della
ney's trick of keeping McCue off
balance much of the time and daz-
zling him with rapid foot work
proved as nice display of good
boxing as has been seen in
months.