Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
WELSH IN QUEST
Of TITLE GOES,
100000 MILES
English Champion Has Made
Many Long Journeys in Effort
TO Fight Grown Holder
By Freddie" w elsh.
(Enelish Lightweight champion0

English Lightweight champion.)
~ NE hundred thousand miles after
championships
Willie Ritchie's disgraceful
Dorando all the way across the Amer
ican Continent to escape from being
forced to swallow a second dose 1t
my hands marked the last lap Of the
100, O00-m mile chase ] have had in the
last seven years after the worlds
lightweight championship.
Richie. after fleeing from Van
couver, under the friendly cover OF
night, landed in New York, drew a
good, long breath and proceeded TO
pick out one of his fayorite soft spots
"a no decision" match.
But the fates were still on his trail.
or to be more correct, the horrible
Welsh bugaboo was. for the Cali
fornia bundle OF lemonade was no
sooner snugly settled in nice cozy
training quarters than up popped the
Freddie" Welsh.
Phew! That makes 10000 miles for
mel! If my hands and feet hold out
I'll get one Of these American So
called champions to stand still long
enough for me to settle once and for
all upon whose brow shall rest the
worlds lightweight crown.
Calls Richie Great Runner.
This latest jump of mine from
Vancouver to New York upon the
heels of Arthur Duffy Dorando Ritchie
makes exactly 100 900 good long miles
that ! have chased, from coast to
coast and continent TO continent, after
this will-o'- the -wlsp
If we get a $4,000 purse, winner
take all, and / knock "No-Decision'
Richie cold I'll tust about be even
Stephen on the good, hard 'iron men"
] have peddled cut for railroad fares,
steamship fares, sparring partners,
trainers and managers.
Let's see-there was Joe Cans,
Battling Nelson. Ad Wolgast and now
this no decision" gentleman--Ritch-
ie! / Just missed Cans seven years
ago before my first battle with
PaclSey Mcfarland. | camped on ,he
"Battiers' trail until camping was
100 to / as a pastime.
I trailed Wolgast until the trail was
all worn out and the Michigan Pussy
Cat" took the appendicitis route, and
now / have been the means OF paint
ing CALIFORNIA; accidental chom-
plon" such a deep yellow that the
american eagle is .blear- eyed With
weeping
With all OF my useless globe trot-
ting and digging into my jeans for
expenses I'm not half as much upset
over the manner in which Richie has
treated me as / am at his diSgraceful
treatment and vilifying OF Hugh
Springer, the Vancouver promoter,
who was 10 have staged our match.
Praises Coast Promoter.
Springer is not only a true sports
man, but n man worth probably a
million dollars; his family are the
society leaders Of Vancouver and
Springer is one of the most solid
business men Of the town.
And all OF this trouble came about
because my manager was not willing
to let Harry Foley's uncle, Eddie
Graney, referee the match at Van
eouver. There was nothing doing, Uf
course. and the next we knew Richie
was seeking the land Of no deci-
sions." and ! settled myself down for
another three thousand mile chase,
But when all is said and done
must say that ! admire the continuity
OF Rltchie's bump of discretion and
also his memory Despite his other
shortcomings. he surely seems to haN q
a very clear picture impressed upon
his mind of Thanksgiving Day. 1911
out on the wave-lapped shore Of
sunny California. They say "a burAt
child breads the FIRE" but it's not a
marker to putting the Indian sign on
boxer by giving him q good trounc-
ing.
Richie is evidently a believer IN
axioms. and there is one that he is
not going to try to reverse and this Is
what ii says:
History repeats itself"