The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
Jim Corbett
fT8y James J. COrbett, Former He4Ty-
 weight, Champion of the World)

f8y James J. Corbett, Former Heavy.
 weight, Champion of the Worid-)
 s(Written for The Evening F'armer.l
 The. return of cool weather should bring about a decided improvement intthe class of matches at local boxing .cl,Ig,s If the press agents are truth fi,l New Workers are in for season of high grade entertainment Tn ao- .,ditiou. to theS Garden and St. N1cholas clubs which between them nave mo ,1oooIized the best matches since oox- Ing was restored to popular favor vda 4J1a Eravlev law, there is the new arena. the McMahon Brothers VIII !4bycrv open sometime during the com ts-,er v,,ortla and which is to be located Tn the old Metropolitan rink pulloIns !-,n .Rroadway near 52d street pe1 .+e-- location would be hard to ma III ttS-a s-,+i,e. greater city and with the ,aT+arnrise and Hberality that has char ..s+Arized the policy of the McMahons l51 the mast and their well known pLo- .-oansitvt for going after the best Tn the l7narket regardless Of cost 4I IS o.lly -ea~ona1,1es to look forward to a Tall and winter. season of classy po21ns. :, Nvoile promoters are planning TOT s+LaScorofnr season it might be oppor- t477ne to calI, their attention to a 1eW iboutss the loyal public Woulo oensnl i4o see clincheds and, whats nelter and more to the point, would W1lhngly i.s-o,,<-l 11p'' shekels galore for the ,-,yiv5Iere of seeing We will begin i1sdth the lightweight, or near hsns- .-uneSzht- division and run over the 1sI | of good matches 1t might De posslple Ito frame up for the entertainment or ithe Sfans.
 ,snorts of both high and low degree and probably draw the largest house a New York club has held in years would be a ten round session between willie Ritc1ie. the champion hgnr- 1uaieht- and Packey Mcfarland, ack- ,,ovzIedged the premier boxer in the game regardIess of weight AS NC lFrartand is due to- -aFrive here within the next week or tentdays to 1ta1k over matches for the coming season ana Ritchfe has announced that ms plans tennbrace a busy winter and include rnatchest with all the leading lights In the division, beginning with Freddy Welsh there is reason to believe that one of ? our enterprising promoters should be successful in bringing to- rether these brilliant stars of pugil- ism. It,surely w ould4be a match above the ordinary, and undoubtedly the biggest success from scientific and financial points of view that could possibly be staged. s-r
 However. if hitch should arise over the matter of weight between Packey and the champion, which IS about the only contingency that could develop to hinder the bout, there are one or two other good nghtweights in local stables whos would prove good drawing cards and who could also give the champion spirited arguments over the ten round course. Young Shu- grue. for example, would make an ideal opponent for the title-holder- and in addition there are Jack Brit ton. Leach Cross and Tommy Mur- ,,Ilv. all three of whom are immensely VrT-Irl and ords place them lin the front ranks of those eligible for or'matches with Ritch- ae.
 If Willie should elect to remain on the Pacific coast the New York pro- motors would -net-lack for @ suffi- riencv of -sl1ita. ta.bifs-natehn1a.king na- teTiaI. A series of bouts between Nc Fariand Welsh, Br1tton, ShugrIe, | Cross and Tommy Murphy all stars in the 1s3 pound class, would cause the fans to forget all about the champion. Of course, Mcfarland looks to out rlass the others named and for that reason it might be a difficult matter to find opponents for him among the Hghtweights. But if Packey will Rgrce to conce7e a few pounds here and there he can find plenty of match es in the dfvisiop higher up, and un- less Ritchie or Welsh should consent 10 take, him on it looks as if his tu- ture ring engagements will be in the weIter-weight- class
 Some reports from Chicago say Me FarIand can easily make 1855 pounds ringside while others state that he has outgrown the lightweight division by six or seven pounds and is now z fu1l-fIedged welter. If the latter re- port is true 1t will be case of good bye to the smaller fellows for MT Packey- Even were he able to traiT down to 133 he stands so far above the majority of Hghtweights it would be a hard job to persuade his rivals tt box him, and there would be nt chance of any one of them concedins him weight under any conditions.
 That old talk about a match be tween McFarIand and Mike Gibbons
 has beenarevived,. but I doubt if any
 thing will come of it, just now Gib
 bons would hardly consent to box un
 der 15O pounds ringside and that il more weight than Packey would giv
 away to a boxer of the skill of the St Paul man. When Mcfarland boxed Jack Britton last Spring he entere, the ring aroHnd 40 pounds, but Il spiters-ef a1Lrthea critics rfhad to sa, about his increasing avordupois tn
 fact is he was several pounds to-
 heavy in that engagement to do hi
 best. The truth of the matter i
 that Mcfarland was so. confident o his superiority over his fellow towns