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.
Bv Freddie" w elsh.
lEnaIish Lightweight champion.l

tEnDESh Lightweight NhaH1p'oHJ
~ NE hundred thousand miles after
a championship!
Willie Ritchie's disgracaful
Dorando all the way across the Amer
lean Continent to escape from being
forced 10 swallow a second dose 1T
my hands marked the last lap of me
100,000-mile chase / have had in the
last seven years after the World S
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 favoTite soft spots
"A mo- decision" match.
But the fates were still on his trail,
or to he 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 tine
devir'-"Freddie" Welsh.
Phew. That makes 100000 miles for
me! II 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.
Calls Richie Great Runner.
This latest jump of mine from
Vancouver to New York upon the
heels Of Arthur Duffy Dorando Richie
makes exactly 100000 good long miles
that I have chased, from coast to
coast and continent to continent, after
this will the wisp
II We get a 1000 purse, winner
take all, and | knock "No-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-
ie! l just missed Cans seven years
ago before my first battle with
Packey Mcfarland. | camped on The
"Battler's' trail until camping was
100 to ] as a 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 cnom-
pion" such deep yellow that the
American eagle is blear- with
weeping
with all OF my useless globe trot-
ting and digging into my jeans Tor
expenses I'm not half as much upset
over the manner in which Richie has
treated me as | am at his disgraceful
treatment and vlifying 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 a 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
10 let Harry Foley's uncle, Eddie
Graney. referee the match at Van
couver 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 I admire the continuity
of Bitches bump Of discretion and
also his memory. Despite his other
shortcomings, he surely seems to nave
a very clear picture impressed upon
his mind OF Thanksgiving Day, 1911,
out on the wave-lapped shore Of
sunny California. They say "a burnt
child breads the FIRE" but it's not a
marker 10 puttinp the Indian sign on
Boxer by giving him a good trounc-
ing.
Richie is evidently a believer IN
aNioms. and there is one that he is
not going to try to reverse and this is
what II says.
History repeats itself