Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-18
KELSH-RITCH|E
MILL UNUSUAL
in MANY Ways
ey GEORGE cONSIDINE.
IBy LatcE; MALL

LONDON-The worlds lightweight
title changed hands July after TWEEN.
~ rounds of the most remarkable
fighting | ever saw. Perhaps the most
remarkable feature of all is the fact
that neither Freddie Welsh, who wop
the decision so far as the refree was
able to announce it, nor Willie Rit-
chie-who started fully 200 potential
knockcuts without landing one-even
staggered his adversary once
Viewed from this angle, Freddie
Welsh won the title more easily than
any challenger of a2y division who
ever annexed a worlds championship.
for Freddie never even was slowed
up by Richie, while the latter was
coming more strongly in the twenti,
eth than in any other round OF the
fight.
There really were only three blows
in the entire fight that by any stretch
of imagination could be called effec.
tive, and the San Francisco boy land
ed them ALL Once in the third round
Richie caught Welsh coming in with
a straight right to the stomach that
made Freddie glad to be able to hang
on and stall through the remainder
of the round
Landed Three Hard BIoWe.
Again in the thirteenth Willie land
cd the same right straight on
Welsh's nose, opening an old cut on
that member. In the seventeenth Rit-
chic caught Welsh square on the jaw
as the latter was Strengthening out
of crouch, but not even these wal
lops did more than give Welsh's sup
porters an instant of apprehension
and none of them compared in force
with the many others that Richie |
started that did not land
AS hard as it is TO admit il, I've
got to say that Welsh went out in |
front from the tap Of the gong and |
with each succeeding round increas-
ed the lead, until when the fight was |
half over the ringside bettors were f,
derisiyely shouting offers of "A pound |
to penny ($5 to eents) on Welsh |
And that brings me to the second re- |
markable feature of the fight
For week prior to the contest |
odds have been 6 to on Welsh, but |
ar the ringside tonight hundreds of |
Welsh men who had travelled $50 /
miles to see their idol annex the IT, |
tie, literally threw their savings at |
Richie fanciers and forced the odds
UP, to z to 4, even as high as 2 to 1 /
on Welsh. - .
Fought to Get at Welsh.
could not stand to see the cham
pion and the United States look like
monkeys, and took all that came my
way at these odds And here is per.
haps not the least remarkable thing
of all-the instant the final gong
sounded the widest pandemonium |
ever heard anywhere in my life broke
out. In the next second Welsh's sec.
onds had literally thrown Welsh's
wife over the ropes into the ring and
into the new champions arms At the
same instant at least hundred men
in evening clothes were through the
ropes, fighting each other to be the
first to embrace and kiss Welsh.
Richie and Referee CORR were
both literally showed out of the ring
IN to the floor and If any decision
vas announced it was certainly not
rom within the ropes and it is equal.
y certain that nobody heard it.
Throughout the fight Owen Moran !
md Matt Wells sat on either side of
ne, both betting on Richie. They +,
idnt worry much about WeIsh's su- ! .
'eTior showing in the first ten rounds, f..
ut from then on both fighters show
d feelings of dismay
1t was beautiful contest-prob.
bly, the finest exhibition of clever S
ess in any ring ever saw. And in l
ismissing the subject it would be 7
lost unfair not to mention the fact e
hat Richie was boring in and trying o
lst as hard in the twentieth round 0
S he was in the first e
well hnw'S bo1djno ,rioo l., y1-oL -