Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
WELSH IN QUEST
Of TITLE GOES,
100000 NILES
English Champion Has Made
Many Long Journeys in Effort
to Fight Grown Holder,
BY Freddie" W eIsh.
lsnalish Liahtwelaht champion.l

~ NE hundred thousand mics atJ'i
a championship
Willie Ritchie's disgracafu!
Dorando all the way across the Amer
ican Continent to escape from being
forced TO swallow a second dose a.
my hands marked the last lap Of die
100, 00O-milc chase | have had in tl"
last seven years after the world
lightweight championship.
RitChie, after fleeing from Van
couver under the friendly cover of
night landed in New York, drew q
good long breath and proceeded to
pick out one Of his favoritc soft spots
"A "no-decision" match
But the fates were still on his trail
d. or to be more correct, the horrible
Welsh bugabOo was, for the Cali
fOrnia bundle OF lemonade was no
sooner snugly settled in nice coy
training quarters than up popped tine
devil Freddie" Welsh.
Phew! That makes 100000 miles for
met 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 Tor
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 Doraudo Richie
makes exactly 100. 900 good long miles
that I have chased, from coast 10
coast and continent to continent, after
this will-o-the wisp.
II we get $4,000 purse, winner
take all. and / knock "No-Decision"
Richie cold I'll just about he even
stephen on the good. hard Iron men"
] have pcddled tut for railroad fares
steamship fares, sparring partners,
trainers and managers.
Let's see--there was Joe Cans,
Battling Nelson, Ad Wolgast and now
this o-dccision" gentlcman-R it"h-
ie, ] Just missed Cans seven years
ago before my first battle with
Phckey Mcfarland. campcd on ne
"Battler's" trail until camping was
Joe TO I as a paSime.
trailed Wolgast until the trail was
all worn out and the Michigan PUSSY
Cat took the appendicitis route, and
now I have been the means Of paint
fng CALIFORNIA; accidental cham
pion" such 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,
VINO 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
Craney, referee the match at Van
Couver There was nothing doing Of
course, and the next we knew Richie
was seeking the land OF mo deCl
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 Ritchic's bump of discretion and
also his memory. Despite his other
shortcomings he surely seems to have
q very clear picture impressed upon
his mind of Thanksgiving Day 1911.
ont on the NaVe-lapped shore NJ
sunny California. They say "a burnt
child breads the FIRE" hut TIA not a
marker to putting the Iuciap sign on
boxer by giving him good trounc-
ing
Richie Is evidently a believer "a
sNioms and there 10 ono that he is
not going 10 try TO reverse and this is
hat 1t says.
History repeats Itself