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win so much attention that the victor
could well claim a right to meet
Champion Richie, who Welsh says,
| is lodging him.
| While ignoring Moran, Manager Pol
lok is hot on the trail of Richie.
Harry has been Fostering the cham
pion with challenges for months and
months, but somehow Richie has
avoided meeting, The boys were
matched to fight at Vancouver some
time ago, but Ritchie called the bout
off and Welsh and Pollok have been
hammering the champion ever since.
Pollok is still on the job, and his lat
est effort comes under the head of a
masterpiece. 1t follows:
]. P. NJ:
Willie Richie signs himself thusly:
willie Richie, worlds lightweight
champion"
Correctly written, 1t should read:
willie Richie, worlds champion
de-stepper."
If the time ever arrived In a boxers
career when the followers of Fistiana,
who support the game at the box
office, and the sporting writers who
chronicle his life's history, should rise
UP in wrath and cast him to the
wolves, Mr.. "No-decision" Richie,
pretender to the lightweight throne,
has surely reached the jumping-of
place.
When Little Willie sneaked out of
Vancouver last September in the
middle of the night without an ex-
cuse in the world to avoid a meeting
with Freddie Welsh, it was an almost
impossible task to convince the sport
ing writer's of the country that
| Richie had absolutely run out cold"
1t was no wonder to me that they
wanted to give the American cham
pion the benefit of every doubt and
were loath to believe that q title
holder could deliberately play the
part of the coward That was the
truth, however. and in the face of the
silly excuses that Richie has just
put forward to avoid meeting with
Tommy Murphy, even the most ar
dent and patriotic supporters of the
Californian must find 1t a hard mat
ter to plead his cause.
When Richie was first matched to
meet Welsh In Vancouver he wrote
to me and asked that the contest be
made fifteen rounds, no decision
Why? 1t might be a good idea to
ask him. That is one thing that he
has never attempted to explain away
The moment that the Murphy
Richie contest in Frisco was first
called off, owing to a scratch or
pimple on Ritchie's nose or to few
drops of rain, he sent word to Billy
fa-Irt G4. i. II
bout in New York at Madison Square
Garden. He didn't even, apparently,
| try to get a barber to remove the
pimple or wait to see if it would
stop raining, before rushing off a
message to Gibson asking for one of
| his favorite matches, a "no-decision"
affair.
Why? 1t might be good idea to
And now "No-declsion" has
scratched his heel. Tough, isn't It?
Meantime, Welsh is going along
meeting and beating all Corners.
If Jim Coffroth wants a real
sporting match" Welsh will meet
Tommy Murphy, winner take ALL"
and bet him any part of $4,000 on the
| side. AS for Richie. it is useless to
even think of dragging him into a
ring with Welsh; the memory of the
beating that Welsh gave him in Los
Angeles is too vivid in the befuddled
think tank of the "World's Champion
| Side stopper" Very truly,
| HARRY POLLOK,
Manager Freddie Welsh, Worlds
| Lightweight Champion.
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