The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-16
BY JAMES J. CoRRETT9 Former Heavy-weight Champion Of
 the World

6BY JAMES J. CoRRETT
 Former Heavy-weight Champion Of the World
 1 New York. May Is. 1914 Jim Tywf- lord, veteran hand at the game, is lopening new boxing club at Uimer Park. Brooklyn suburb near Coney l Island. Tywford will stage a splen- : Idfd card for his opening attraction l with Freddy Welsh and Jack Britton lin thes star parts. Probably a better
 natched pair could hardly be found Iunless Pacl<ey Mcfarland was to be Isubstituted for the clever Brftton. 1 Boxing fans are favoTabiy iIa- pressed with Welshss bi1siness-ii like tfnet hods of creaAing demand for Ibout hefwen Ritchie and himself He Isurely is going the right way about lit to land the match. In the last lev: months the English CyhanHpion has disposed of two of the leading aspi- Irants of the lightweight division ill f the persons of Joe Rivers. and Leach l Cross and clean cut victory over Jack Britton will establish his rights Ito match with Ritciie beyond all Iauestion. Willie would be co1pelied I to recognize Freddyss claims to con l test for the worlds lightweight title l Not that Richie, in my opinion, IS l averse to the teat.EIe is out for the. money and if Welsh demonstrates This eligibility for the match Willie. lean be depended upon to sign the ipapers for the promoter who comes l to the front with the highest bid. was reading an article the other day by a local fistic expert in which the opinion was advanced that Ritchie ' will hardly consent to a ten round bout with Welsh should the latter defeat Britton. | don see why. True. Welsh is a more polished performer than the American champion, but the f-- inc had had little experience in the ring that he was capable of giving Freddy a hard battle from start to
 finish of their twenty round battle I Therefore it is only natural to ex- pecr that Ritchie with the great inas lprovenept he has shown since that time ought to be able to take care of [hirnseH even in a short bout with Ithe clever Welsh.
 | There are several things to be rec Ikoned on in trying to dope a winner Of a ten round bout betw cen the two Welsh make runaway sure thing lof it in short bout should bear in mind that in Ritchie he will meet com bination of 9 clever boxer and lis not the greatest defensive boxer
 in the division. but he can adapt his style of battle to suit the style of an opponent about as well as anyone I know. True, have never seen Will l lie box clever opponent in the ring,
 but I have watched him go against
 several exceedingly scientihc boys in
 training quarters and those who fg-
 ure him only a slugger would have
 been greatly surprised at the knowI- $ edge of defense he displayed Don't put the American champfon down as l Why when he was with McEar1and 1 he was wont to put up exhibitions of l boxing with the scientific Packey 1 that amazed those who were privilt I Tme before Ritchie fought Woisast ] that Willie would beat Ad or any other lightweight in the game. and 1 that he would surely win the title if l given the chance That is genuine 1 expert opinion. And willie certainty
 made good when opportunity offered. l When Ritchze met Leach Cross here l he told me before entering the ring that he would fight Cross at his own style. told him thought he would l be foolish to mix it with Leach who is terrific hitter and usually beats 1 boys who resort to exchanges with l him. Willie has determined. though,
 to prove to. the critics who expressed
 the opinion that he would be content Ito outbox Leach that he could night
 as well. and we all know how he met gCross at his favorite style and out Lslugged him from beginning to end. sI And only lucky break in the third
 round savedfCross from the ignominy d of clean knock hen the gong saved him.
 T know that Welsh is scientific He has demonstrated his ability as
 boxer s1n numerous occasions and never more so than when he boxed =E Packey Mcfarland to a draw. At I near so fast now as he was two or three years ago.
 Welsh boxed in New York last Fall and his exhibition at that time was not up to the standard set by him in previous matches. He failed to show fnent we expected from him and when n novice such as Phil Bloom can get
 home his badly aimed wa11ops there ! is every reason to believe that Ritcnie i will be able to land a few of his
 While Freddy outboxed Joe Rivers and Leach Cross clean1y he accom-
 p1ished nothing wonderful. Neither
 of those boys can be called scientific 49 will not be surprised if Jack Brit
 ton makes Welsh step his very best to hold things fairly even. Jack is d 4yeteran, his debut ante dating that of
 Welsh who has been boxing nine
 years, but he can still go ten rounds
 at a remarkably fast pace And Brit
 in the matter of science as rated in
 the ring blue books
 May 2s has been set as the date for
 the Welsh Britton engagement. The
 winner will likely be matched with
 Ritchie. And it will probably take ! place in New York at that. Tyfordss
 new club has a, seating rapacity of about 6,000--tf1e largest in this neigh
 horhood now that Madison Square
 Garden is out of the running-and
 could hold enough money to satisfy
 the demands of even two high-prfced cha nnDfons
 Advices from Sydney indicate that
 the present crop of Australian box
 CTS is not of q higher grade than it
 has been at any time in the past de