The evening world., 1914-03-16
Welsh Figures That His Battle
Against Joe Rivers win Go
Twenty Rounds.

Twenty Rounds.
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CREDDY WELSH v 70 nsht Joe
Rivers. the Mexican. at Vernon.
California, to.morr6w Afternoon.
welsh expects the bout to 20 the full
tweoty rounds. and says that he'll
play Rivers like . trout on . hook
ed make him beat himself. Just
Nv Welsh compares with While
N1toAis IN popular estimation 70
eoown b the fact that betting On the
welsh. Rivsrs match y at even
neosy. II Rivers were lighting
A1echis the champion would b IN
evorwhsimins favorits.
welsh 70 . very clever boxer. sx-
oroWsly fast and willing. but lacking
- Dunishing power. There 10 little
Hhelihood Of his stopping the Mexican.
u Rivers wins probably II will be
With . knockout. lie 10 fast and .
heavy hitter. When hs fought
NltcAis Tor the title Rivers carried
Ne nght 10 the Champion for several
soends and even had Richie Q little
voeoly at times. Richie fought
- hts usual cool. determined man
-. and outlasting and outennl
~ the Mexican took the heart out
q htm and boat him down. This 10
wat Welsh expects To do. He'll have
. much harder piece Of work 70 do
AAn Ritchie. for he entirely laolGs
natehis's best assst-a punch.
~ Welsh should beat Rivera this
WI mako him . good enough at
traction to b matched against
p ~ champion. Welsh, too, 10
ohanpion Of England. which should
ootltle him to some consideration In
. ehampionship match. Welsh and
GtoAas would b . pretty pair In the
slaS. I'm inclined to think that
Htchis would equal the English
champion 10 skin and beat him with
~ harder hitting.
sDo1stAtsS " voltew N ne Gtote
q Deassork."-HasslcG
Jack johnson has taken refuge
tssr' After being sssed out OF sws-
~ 8SCRTBIN0 Johnson's "wrss-
~ tlins bouts" In Europe, Frank
Moran says: johnson likes to
think hs can win 1t anything he
tsssa He saw . lot Of wrssHsrv and
thssght be could beat any Il them.
- - bssan challenging. He didn't
NV anything about wrestling. He
Wrsstlsd Esssn. champion Of seot-
Nd. six weel after breaking his
An. He wouldn't 70 to the door with
Nm but Jumped around and stayed
- hls fsst and kept Eassn OF with
OoAoheA ~ soon - Essen rot Q
~ johnson resigned without eoins
- tho mat He does the same In
0ehec wrestling matches. and the
eoopSo arc eatisfied to zee him punch
~ wrestler because he's . nshter,"
e Johnson would punch some Of
- wresuere around this neighbour
80 he might b welcomed back In
0ew York
sMlle. Carpenter" hes lust won
the NemaN's boxing champ nship
n France, with Knockout, the
Olympic. CemmteeioN 10 about 70
eool9o that women ean eompsto
y the Olympic oamss, lenden
o40raoeetee have advanced their
oortridess lNstsad Of threwj"o
eskklestsnss. More man no ienucr
holds . monopoly Of sport.
a CCORDlN0 70 accounts from tho
training camps No0raw and
other major league managers
ass boasting o. the extreme profici.
sacy Of some Of their new men picked
up from the minors. and even pre-
dieting that before the season u
ever those will be playing better ball
thaa the older rssuiarv.
Funny that AoGraw and the Others
aAould make such foolish statements,
Why. everybody who has listened 10
TIE organised baseball maGnates dur
Ing the past several weeks knows
that minor league players know
nothing whatever about baseball.
haven't We their authority for the
statement that the Federal brand OF
hall y sure 70 DO q nat failure be-
cause the Fedsrals have 10 much new
minor league talent on their salary
RELISH
YYAvE you noticed that sudden
n break in the knockers chorus
formerly directed at Willie
Nttchis? Willie went through with
IL Wolgast match without any prs.
vsnung accident. Wolgast probably
wishes he had broken bis leg the
weak before. but the rest Of the pop.
uiation Of this great country il wei
eatisned. Richie may have to post.
pone bouts now and then, but wher
~ does nght he makes good in suct
style that his popularity goes up witt
. bound. Nothing but q orippling ac.
cldent could possibly make Richie
wtsh 70 avoid lighting.
THE Federal Lsasue manager,
claim to have Fifty miliior