Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
Nd CHANCE FOR
PACKEY To GALL
OFF GIBBONS GO
Em;. Tbiy Says Mcfarland Is
Confident He'll Defeat St.
Paul Speed Marvel,
By Sol Pick.

- HIcAGO, Jan. f6.-When word
rsme over the wires from New
y York the other night that Mike
cfb5ar. the apple Of ST. Pauls eye,
had n4l,oped all the fight out of
o.ever Bob McArister, San Francis
co,s OLYMPIC club sensation, friends
NJ Packey Mcfarland here in Chica-
On suddenly became faint hearted.
When it was learned that McAllister
scaled 80 pounds and Gibbons 1872 IL,
and that Mike stopped the coast crack
oold In the seventh round. Packey's
admirers got weak in the knees. They
rrurdIe6 home. shaking their heads
and mutterine that Mcfarland at last
had made 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
we're mildly surprised as he unbur-
dened himself of the following con-
versatOn
call off the match? I should say
not. We are more determined than
ever to go 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 McAllister 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 think he has better than an
even chance Of whaling his-man
81 CONFESS : did not expect Glib
hons 10 GO quite so well with Nc
Allister I honestly did not look for a
knockout But | told Eddie Reddy
Mikes manager before they went
East that NcAllister could not hit.
When Gibbons became convinced of
this he simply tore in and made use
Of his punch 1t was great victory
for the St Paul man, and it does not
scare Mcfarland. ] expect to cali
Packev 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
neTe on the ith 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 6th
or 18th Of February. Billy Gibson
wants to postpone it to February II,
but We won't stand for that | 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
for series of three matches, all to
be decided in Buffalo within so days,
and there is 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 80 days, over the ten round
route At Buffalo. If he meets my
terms I will accept the trio Of fights
Tor my boy. the weight to be 1873 at 6
o'clock for all the contests and the
aate Of the first MKT up being Janu-
ary %. Murray offers me a contract
which forces him to go through with
me three matches unless White is
knocked out in either the first or
second fights l.nnyty il O.,