Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-24
ANOTHER WELSH-RITCHIE
GO IN ORDER, SAYS CORBETT
Champion Should Try to Prove
Right to Title, Says "Gen-
tleman JIM"
GREAT MATCH FOR GARDEN
New York Fans Like Willie and
Big Crowd Would At
tend Bout.
BY JAMES J. C0RBETT
Former Heavyweight Champion Of the
World.

Former Heavyweight Champion Of the
World.
Now that Freddie Welsh has picked
up something like $4,000 in short
bouts with Matty Baldwin, AID VOL
CAST, Charley White and Jimmy
Duffy, and satisfied the fans that he
is regular champion, he may go
q bit further and consent to take
Willie Richie on either in a ten
round match or in a twenty-round
decision bout for the championship.
Freddie should not go out of his
way to make conditions difficult for
Richie. He should remember that q
return bout is due a defeated title
holder, according to all rules
and etiquette of the sport, and
N avoiding a match with Richie
he will not make any new friends
for himself. Richie went all
the way to England to box Welsh,
risking his title in a foreign country,
where he knew that the interpreta-
ton of the rules would not favor his
style of milling. Still it showed the
supreme confidence the American lad
entertained of his ability to beat Eng
lands champion on his own battle
ground, and his reward should be a
return engagement with his con-
qiferor. Added to all this the fact
that there exists considerable doubt
of Welshs victory being a clean-cut
one makes 1t imperative for Freddie
TO talk business with the former
title-holder and try to prove that his
victory was a deserved one.
Great Match for Garden.
Willie and Freddie would make
great match for Madison Square Gar
den. | dare say it would break all
records in New York for limited
round bout, and Welsh could gather
as much in single evening for his
share as he could in half a dozen en-
gagements with boys of less reputa-
ton than the Californian. While
Charley White is being doomed for
another fling at the Champion the
match that would appeal to Ameri-
can sports everywhere would be a re-
turn engagement with Richie A
ten-round bout at the Garden might
settle many differences of opinion re-
garding the much disputed decision
rendered by Eugene Corri in Eng
land last June
Richie Made Hit in New York.
Ritchie'S style MADE an immense
hit with New Workers. in the only
battle in which he was seen In the
metropolis-that with Leach Cross.
He is always interesting because he
is trying every inch of the way, and
what he lacks in a scientific sense he
more than makes up by his intelli-
gent aggressiveness. There is no such
thing as stalling with the American
champion; he is In the ring to fight,
and fight he does every second.
Welsh can make himself solid with
the public by meeting Richie half
way in negotiations for a bout. Any
move to put obstacles in the way of
a match by a demand for practically
all the receipts will not tend to en-
hance Freddie's popularity with the
sports.
jess willard side-Traeked.
After all the wire-pulling and
manipulation on the part of his back
ers, it begins to look as IL Jess VIII
lard will not get first crack at Jack
johnson for the worlds title. The
latest news concerning the future en-
egagements Of the champion Is that
either s or Battling Jim
johnson is next opponent,
The be lace in Havana,
cuba Il of March or
earl have this infor
MA gentleman rep
resen gadt, of Havana,
who is Il of the syndicate
organized aromote a series of
heavyweight lnatches during the COM
ing winter and spring season.