The Alaska citizen., 1914-05-18

evening.
 Next day Battling Nelson went tc his manager, Bill Nolan. and begged him to hunt up a youngster named Mcfarland. out near the stock yards, and sign contract 10 manage him for a long period of years
 You see" argued Bat Pm the card now and I'm pulling in biz money, and that guy is going to start challenging me and make a lot of trouble. If we're both in the same camp he cant do it.
 This showed just what Nelson thought of Packey as a fighter Pack ey never had chance 10 meet Nel- son in the ring again. but his sub sequent career proved that Nelson < judgment was good.
 Fortune is Made
 In the next eight years, or by the time he was 25, Patrick Mcfarland had earned quarter of a million dollars in the ring and had become the cleverest and the most admired boxer of the day IL goes without saying that boxer doesn't pick up that amount of money for nothing. No other lightweight had ever done il. When he met Nelson Packey was just a rough, tough youngstar who loved fight. who had very unusual fighting brain and the phy- sique of the natural athlete As he fought his way up Mcfarland studied his profession and other things. He picked his associates carefully and learned something from every man he met. He became his language, and of his thoughts, and he made friends among the best known men in the country He was recognized as boxer who had quite bit of class" outside the ring, and this added to his popular ity. He didn't arbitrate to himself any name descriptive of his pre- tensions. He wasn't "Gentleman Packey." He was just himself, and that was good enough for those who knew him.
 Mcfarland. as he progressed in his career. worked out a code of fight ing and a code of living. Then he fitted them together. He determin- ed that he would win by skill alone. At the start he had won twenty five fights straight with knock outs. Now he wouldn't knock out oppon- ents unless forced to by circum stances.
 When I have to knock men out to satisfy the people who pay to see me box I'll retire" Packey often said
 This decision was made about the time when Packey had something oNSi pIup,VVp NdltluilS lIlNNSlcN where it would bring returns; also about the time when Packey's broth CTS and sisters were developing i'll the schools and colleges where he had sent them with his ring earn ings. He was studying out some way in which they would not be re garded as relatives of a prize fight CT" And Packey determined that he was a boXer-not a fighter, That didn't detract from his aggressive ness, which was part of him and never could be entirely suppressed, Girl in Case.
 Another thing-there was girl. Perhaps I'd better say THE girl, for Packey's fancy wasn't of the stray ing kind There was just one girl but she was very nice girl and didn't think much of some kinds of fighting, though she admitted that Packey's was probably just about i IlSnl. AHu 1dChty WtIt OH DoAlilS picking up thousand here, and a three or four or ten thousand there until the bank account began @ creep up around that quarter mil | lion mark. Then he became rest less and dissatisfied with the ring.
 After his bout with Britton some time ago Mcfarland announced that he intended to retire for good, take in the study of law and fit himsell for another profession. He hat made a brilliant record in the ring and would retire undefeated. Twenty five is a nice age at which to re tire when you have quarter Of million.
 What Packey didn't announce k that he intends to be married tt THE girl in short time. Ant while the girl admires Packey yer! much as a boxer and an all-arount