Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-03
SIX BOUTS WITHIN SIX
WEEKS Prove TOO MUCH
Lightweight Champion Freddie
Welsh, in an Effort to Accommo-
date, Overworks Himself
SEES KILBANE BON noucK
After Viewing Battle, Says lie Is Ger
tain That He Can Defeat the
featherweight Boss-Clabby AZ
ter al Mccoy.

NEW YORK. January "a fanatical
desire ,, to prove to a tlckle boxing pub
name has cost Freddie Welsh tidy lit
mf r fGrtIn e. Since attaining the pre-
Harry Pollok's industrious little charge
has demonstrated beyond peradverl-
and is willing to consider as mn on.
ponent anybody who has pretensions
TO his crown.
When Welsh. upon his return to this
country after relieving Willie Richie
or the title in London. engaged In six
out thnt Il the many AMY wSeks the cry went
money market But Welsh I i has die lie
plausible. Freddie insists that the de-
sire TO fight at least once a week was
cere desire. to prove that he was a
real champion.
,a Trns' So Er ed cleared up APPROX
LOOK at how long he has been passive
lie has been idle over a month now
and the compulsory layoff has cost him
thousands. He was forced to rest up
In order TO regain his waning strength.
The, strain of fighting week in and
and it was deemed advisable by Man
ngcr Pollok that Freddie take pro-
lonBed sicsta.
Welsh Not n ShIrkcr.
But Welsh is not the sort that shirks
work when there is work to be done
While enjoying his little vacation he
has found time to combine business
with his pursuits for pleasure. Fred
die has had an eye for the future ever
since he embarked on n boxing career
sighted young man the worlds light
weight champion Is.
When Johnny ssKilbane, boss of the
itcstherwciEhts, fought over in phiIa-
being Willie Houck). there was one
SCOPE eye every movement made by
Ihs R nnnn etb nersNm Tha, spsstator
easily penetrated. He said little. but
his SILENCE bespoke great thinking
hard rs iilbnnc went through the &
mazcs in beating up his unschooled
rival
,Welsh's presence at the bout started
all sorts OF conjectureS. Finally the
champion was asked point blank the
reason for going all the way from New
/ longer In action. Welsh evidently was
seemed to, divine the question, and UNI
Well. what saw tonight may come
about Eilbanes cleverncss that I
clever. extremely clever; but do not
think he can deliver a hard punch.
ngh Sm w nrI DnIn molss,ns me
stake. That's go. But he must wait
his turn. The fact that he is the
\ lttlHeiWeiSnt champion cuts 10 nGurG
with me; there are any number of good
lightweights who are more entitled to
meet me than Is kilbane,
I'll fight Kilhane before any club
that offers suitable Inducements And
! I'll make weight for him. too-1S3
pounds at o'clock. will do this
weight than to please Kilbane's Wins
Confident He Can Bent Kilhane.
Yes. am confident l can lick Kill
Al best Will have only three or four
pounds the best OF the weights. but
this should not be a disadvantage. to
strength at 100 pounds. while | would
have to train down to the notch"
| ;" elsh-kilbanc match is not so
far off as we We're inclined to believe
Eor ultra boxing skill, this bout would
produce enough of it to satisfy tn.
most rabid boxing enthusiast.
Jimmy. Clabhy will be in our midst In
Few short days. and then we shall
s nSnr h0w he T, views the middisweght
over Mike Gibbons with the boxing
promoters was evidenced when n Mil
posed finn ow Gso dreT out
in order to bring together Clabby and
McGoorty.
Gibbons iiasco with McGoor,y Mt the
st iuden 5{ls oyer ,wS years ago Is
that night that there is a strain OF
saffron sa n concealed about his person and
| ton OF that affair.
Mike is marvellous nghter-that ia
| universally admittcd-but ho has Vet
TO show renl lighting spirit when on
posed to II rival OF high callbre.
Clnbby's first Efforts here Will be 70
| inVeiElc Al Mccoy. the pseudo middle
weight champion, into n match That
is the only way Mccoy viii ever be
drawn into IL meeting with high class
middiewcight. 1t is not Mt all unlikely
that Clabby will tackle n mediocre on
his cunning. Then only Is Mccoy like
~ TO fall. Others have used this
means To draw on n prospective op-
ponent; why not Clabby? We shall see
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