Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
M CHANCE FOR
PACKEY To CALL
0FF GIBBONS GO
Emil Tbiry Says Mcfarland Is
Confident He'll Defeat St.
Paul Speed Marvel.
By Sol Pick.

,tIrrAGO Jan. 16.-When word
came over the wires from Ne"
y work the other night that Mike
c,bhars the apple of St. Paul's eye,
had r.aIloped all the fight out of
,rarsr Bob NcAllister, San Francis
co.'s olympic Club sensation, friends
of Psrkav Mcfarland here in Chica-
On suddenly became faint-hearted.
wber II was learned that McAllister
aoa1ed 1870 pounds and Gibbons 1872 IL.
and that Mike stopped the coast crack
rid i'm the seventh round, Packey's
admirers got weak in the knees. They
.rurdIad 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-
yersatio1
call off the match? I should say
rot We are more determined than
ever to 20 through with it now. Pack
ey feels lust as confident as ever.
That does not mean that he is posi-
tive that he will win. He knew be-
fore the NcAllister fight just how
good Mike was. He knows now. as he
knew then. that he has the fight of
his life on his hands. He will get
ready. too, for desperate conflict,
and I think he has better than an
even chance of whaling his man.
81 CONFESS did not expect Glib
L hons to do quite so well with Nc
Allister I honestly did not look for a
knockout But l 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. I 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
viii 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 the worlds tourists, and the
battle will be held on either the 9Th
or It'll Of February. Billy Gibson
wants TO postpone it to February II,
but We won't stand for that. l ex
pect to hear from him definitely on
the date tomorrow"
NATE LEWIS left last night for
~ Buffalo at the expense Of Charlie
Murray, the leading promoter of that
city Murray wants Charlie White
Tor a series of three matches, all to
be decided in Buffalo within 80 days,
and there is d 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 30 days, over the ten round
route al Buffalo. If he meets my
Terms will accept the trio of fights
Tor my boy the weight to be 1873 at 6
o'clock for all the contests and the
cate of the first miX-up being Janu
aLE %. Murray offers me a contract
winch forces him to go through with
me three matches unless White is
knocked out in either the first or
second fights. | know there is not u