Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-11
RICHIE TACKLES WELSH
TO REGAIN CHAMPIONSHIP
IiyhtwcightS Will Meet Tonight in
in New York to Settle Title
Dispute.
WILL BE GRrDGE FIGHT
Champion Fought Californian for
Nothing To Get Crack ut Him.
american Claims He Was .Iobbcd
10y BritiShCr.

NEW N0EK. March 10. Willie
Eit"hie. former licbtw,ighi champion
Of the world. hopes TO regain tn" title
10y a Knockout tO-luorrOW night when
lie meets Freddie Welsh ia tcu-vouuG
battle N Madison square Garden. vii
lies one ana only mop" of rc-anueN
out blow
II the mill goes the limit there seems
To be little chance OF the Californian
coming out in front Welsh is the
most marvellous defensive lightweight
that ever lived II" counts ana then
either blocks. side steps or ducks any
Offering from the opposition.
Welsh undouhtrdly Is no, rs good
now as ne was when he won the title
from iitchic on July :. last year. in
London, bur IT is Ia lie doubted If VIII
He still packs the Same OLD wallop. but
I'm his work outs in til. past ten days
he looked awfUlly slow.
Willie believes ne Is going to stop
Freddie. II" declares that no has a
,,hunch' that he, $ going To win by a
knock out Aud he is confident. He
declares he will go after the English
man from the very start and never
stop NayinC away with both hands.
Welsh will find mo hitting harder
and straightcr than when he was pre-
sentod with tn" title" Richie said last
night IN force the pace so fast and
hard that he Will tire along about the
seventh or eighth round. And when he
tires hts guard will surely lower. 1t
knockout punch that VIII give me back
the title was robbed of in Lon
From occanport Welsh telephoncd
lat" This afternoon:
nsht fans that / clearly defeated
liirhie for the title if there is ANY
Will land the blow made R;chic
dog It In London and I'll do it again
'o..nmorrow night. TOO"
RiG Ill
affair. although tile men arc making
lS1 pounds AZ o'clock in the after
noon, II Ritchi" stops Welsh he viii
hc proclaimed the tirlcholdcr. But Welsh
VIII most certainty claim. in case he *
knocked out that il wasn't a; the
iigh,,M,"irh, limit sun Eitchi" viii be
h" acconm9plishos his 'hunch.'
1t viii Il" q rrudsc affair Welsh
has never forgotten how lie was forced
10 fight for nothing. not even training
expenses. for the struggle that won
HIM the crown. Ana Ritchic viii never
believe othorwis" than he was "iobbed"
our of III" championship.
Promoter Jimmy Johnston expects
a Ed","o" house. I'm fact. ii looks as
though every seat in the massive sta
dunn Will he sold before sunset
Freddie Was nIurk. Bo>"r
" ~ hard a. 50" where Freddie
Welsh deserves special blame for rak
ing IN all the coin ne can these DAYS
rtc"Glc led pretty uulucl<y sort OF
ltf" for such fine hoxcr III to the
time he won his title from Willie.
iNtrhlc last summer Always :, clever
fellow with his lists hui meyer very
spectacular or OF Ia" popular kuockiil.
out type, lac generally was only 4 fair
drawing card and hardly ever got TIN,
Ii"hS share OF The p,rs" when opposed
10 another good man lilo fnu.h,
lackcy Mcfarland thrc" times. All of
'h"m being close bouts. but on each
occasion lnckcy got nearly twice "a
nlN'u money as he. Then when Welsh
Fought Willie Ritchic, he didn'i r,t =,
hiichi" cleaned UP $4,000 Eut Welsh
E"t IN" titl", which he was after. %ow
uat ne has II, n" is Capitalizin- il.
making all the money out Of ii that
he can. ''
W"lsh's first professional f-ht vas
IN LOO; thus h" has waited ten wears
10 iH!nIl his ambition TO hcrorn" cham
prom. ana not One until he cot tn"
crown was he "a drawing card of tn.
really hrstclass Now that he Is a
Irhi drawing card. able to earn really
ulc money ON every start, Ne realizes
mat n" Is getting pretty old for thu.
,ihS' pretty near the end Of his rope.
ne Is Going 20 hc twenty nine wears old
next FRIDAY, his birthday which is
Wc'tN far along for a man in In"
hIhiw"irht ranks. The last rcaIl,.
GOOD hrht Welsh fought was mat win
ittch'" II" has appeared Il little worse
~ every start sine" then. and viii 10
IN danger now ii he tackles any of tho
"i'HInt cont"nd"rs IN long fight
mere iS touch OF pathos TO his no
Nltl"n. Now he has tho powcr To get
ihc money IN hiE chunks. hut no knows
n" viii not hay" that power much
ne fort IN search Of ali tho easy
money In sight"