Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
No CHANCE FOR
PACKEY To CALL
OFF GIBBONS CO
Emil Thirty Says Mcfarland Is
Confident He'll Defeat St.
Paul Speed Marvel.
By Sol Pick.

y HICAGO, Jan. 16.-When word
came over the wires from New
York the other night that Mike
Gibbons, the apple of St. Paul's eye,
had walloped all the fight out of
clever Bob McAllister, San Francis
cos Olympic Club sensation, friends
of Packey Mcfarland here in Chica-
go suddenly became faint hearted.
When it was learned that McAllster
scaled $50 pounds and Gibbons 1872 IL,
and that Mike stopped the coast crack
cold in the seventh round PackeyS
admirers got weak in the knees. They
trundled home, shaking their heads
and muttering that Mcfarland at last
had made a bad match and was in
for certain licking.
Naturally, we wanted to know what
Emil Thirty, manager, and Packey
himself thought about it. A report
was circulated that Mcfarland would
crawl out of the match. His trainer,
Ike Bernstein, was said to have re-
marked that Thirty had made a mis-
take in signing the articles. So when
we got hold of Thirty last night We
were mildly surprised as he unbur
dened himself of the following con-
versation:
Call off the match? I should say
not We are more determined than
ever to go through with it now. Pack
ey feels just as confident as ever.
That does not mean that he is posi-
tive that he will win. He knew be-
fore the McAllister fight just how
good Mike was He knows now. as he
knew then, that he has the fight of
hi fn q
ready, too, for a desperate conflict.
and | think he has better than an
even chance of whaling his man.
81 CONFESS ! did not expect Glib
bons to do quite so well with Nc
Allister l honestly did not look for a
knockout But | told Eddie ReddY,
Mikes manager, before they went
East that McAllister could not hit.
When Gibbons became convinced of
this he simply tore in and made use
of his punch 1t was a great victory
for the ST. Paul man, and it does not
scare Mcfarland. | expect to call
Packey the welterweight champion of
the world after the meeting of the
pair in Madison Square Garden.
There is no chance that the mill
will be postponed until March, as was
reported The White Sox and Giants
are due in New York February 6.
Two hundred South Side fans leave
here on the 4th on a special train.
We want them at the ringside, as
well as Athe worlds tourists, and the
battle will be held on either the 9Th
or 9TH of February. Billy Gibson
wants to postpone it to February u,
but we won't stand for that. | eX-
pect to hear from him definitely on
the date tomorrow.
MATE LEWIS left last night for
Buffalo at the expense of Charne
Murray. the leading promoter OF that
city. Murray wants Charlie Whlte
for a series of three matches, all TO
be decided in Buffalo within 80 days,
and there is a fine prospect that Lew
is will sign up White while in the
New York town. Here is the way
Lewis explains the deal:
MURRAY wants White to meet
Jimmy Duffy. Young Shugrue and
Leach Cross, in the order named. all
within so days, over the ten round
route at Buffalo. If he meets my
terms | will accept the trio of fights
for my boy. the. weight to be l33 at b
o'clock for all the contests and the
date of the first mix-up being Janu-
airy 30 Murray offers me contract
which forces him to go through with
the three matches unless White IS
knocked out in either the first or
second fights. | know there is not =
chance of that, so will not hesitate II
get what | want in a financial way.
"One reason why | am willing to
make the trio of battles in the East
with White is that | have been tip
ped off that AID WOlgast and Joe XIV
ers will dodge Charlie after their
scrap in Milwaukee. Rivers is to go
West right after that row, and VOL
CAST will do the same if he wins. J
am not going to let White stand
around doing nothing while waiting
on those fellows