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" Welsh.
English Lightweight champion.)

~ NE hundred thousand miles after
a championship
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
100 900 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 faVorite soft spots
IA ''no-decision" match.
But the fates were still on his trail,
or to be more correct, the horrible
Welsh bugaboo was, for the Cali
1ornia bundle OF lemonade was no
sooner snugly settled IN nice coy
training quarters than up popped "the
devil"-'F'reddie Welsh
Phew! That makes 100. 900 miles for
me! If my hands and feet hold out
III 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.
This latest jump of mine from
Vancouver to New York upon the
heels of Arthur Duffy Dorando Ritcnie
makes exactly 100000 good long miles
that / have chased, from coas, to
coast and continent to continent, after
this will-o'- the-wisp.
IL we get $4,000 purse, winner
take ALL and | knock mo Decision"
Richie cold I'll just about be even
Stephen on the good, hard iron men
have peddled out 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
Sc! ! Just missed Cans seven years
ago before my first battle with
Packey Mcfarland. ! camped on ;he
"Battier's' trail until camping was
100 to as pastime,
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'
pion" such a deep yellow that the
American eagle is blear- eyed WIFI
weeping.
with all Of my useless globe trot-
expenses I'm not half as much upset
over the manner in which Richie has
treated me az am at his disgraceful
treatment and viifying Of Hugh
Springer, the Vancouver promoter,
who was to have staged our match.
Praises Coast Promoter.
Springer Is not only a true sports
man. but man worth probably
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
Ciraney referee the match at Van
souver There was nothing doing, Of
course, and the next we knew Richie
was seeking the land Of mo 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 Ritchie's bump of discretion and
also his memory. Despite his other
shortcomings, he surely seems 10 haN e
a very clear picture Impressed upon
his mind OF Thanksgiving Day. 1911
out on the wave Tapped shore If
sunny California They say "a burAt
child breads the FIRE" but It's not a
marker to putin" tNe n'ian sign on
boxer by giving him good trounc-
ing.
Ritchie IL evidently believer IN
sxioms and there Is one that he is
not going to try to reverse and this is
what II says:
History repeats itself"