Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-26
CHARLEY WHITE PUTS
UP A GREAT ARGUMENT
Tries to Convince Wife, Doctors md
Nurse That lilo VIII 10 Fit to
box To-Niorrow Night.
COMPELLED TO STAY IN BED
II Is Feared That lie Hns Typhoid
Pncumo Wants to Go to His
Homo If lilo Is Not to Fight.
l5ccChcr Substituted.

:, NEW YORK. January Charlie
w n''e proved refractory patient to
N hM,n In MS npnrtmcnts at the Hotel
Mrs. White and II husky man nurs,. a
Erra argument that he should not ho
compelled tn stay in bed. Ills tcmpcra-
tur" charts showed n range i'm r.vrr
from los degrees to iOOi. hut Il took
me c"nhin"d "ratory nf his wife and
nurse l." enforce tho order OF two doc
TORS against getting up.
White bitterly disappointed.
ip,, h mr,n Is hin,rriy disappotntcd at hay
the edge OF what he still believes was
MS greatest chance to win the light
wriEht championship OF the world hy
Illness. and In a long argument this
afternoon cited half "a dozen cases
where he had been attacked with chilIs
IN the middle OF training. only to shake
them on and to go into the ring ana
make II hard. fast fight.
pr Flynn. official physician OF the
Whites personal physician. fear that
Charities !iln"ss may develop into
typhoid pneumonia. but are Watching
closely on the theory that il may DO
malaria instead that is holding him
down. laboratory blood test will h"
m ,i t".morrow as an aid in dag
noslnE the complaint
Way Allow Him to Go Homo.
M,hitc insists that he viii leave Sew
York ON Wednesday afternoon. taking
"A compartment on II twenty hour train
and getting back Ia his Chicago home
The doctors are skcpticul as 80 the
safety of such a course but Charlie
shows enough improvements by to-mor-
row I" warrant Journey they will
ala him 10 get ready TO leave Wcdn"s-
gay; so that by noon Thursday he can
b. in his own home.
IL feel all right" said Charlie to
Il newspaper representative who saw
MIN in bed "a; IN. hotel Il don't think
this fever signifies anything and
nave had lots OF chills like these | am
having now. But IN" doctor from the
Garden said he positively could not al
low mo To fight there in this shape so
my earlier hopes for n poStponcr.nt OF
not more than three or four days, or
perhaps week. seem likely to be un-
1T Is pretty tough to be sick jus,
now t"r have honestly felt rs II
me worlds championship was within
win 10y Knockout Now IN have ali
me training Ia do over again, but tn.
the match Will he only postponed. So AS
soon as | am fit 7 viii he just rs sure
OF winning that title as L was until yes.
Whit, wanted TO tnlle more but tho
nurse shoond the interviewer out Of
the room You can't argue with a man
nurs" and you can't ,.atter him by
telling him how becoming his cap and
uniform are When man nurse says.
Get out'-out YOU go.
Willie Beechrr to Box Welsh
Jimmie Johnston, matchmaker for
the Garden Athletic Club. was busy ali
morning irving to arrange Il substi-
tutc for White, and tonight announced
mat Will. Bccchcr would go on in
place OF White.
5ccchcr happens to be in training
and is conceded to hc able TO make
Welsh step some. 50 the fans probably
VIII turn out 10 some extent to see the
10000 house, the Garden management
Will he pleased If il gets one of 10000
welsh was notified at his training
quarters at Ocean Port to-day thar
White was i'll. and started for New
York at once. Harry Pollok. his man
aSer. said Rccch"r would he a salts
factory substitute. and added that
Freddie. by reason of his strenuous
training for White. would he in shape
10 SHOW the crowd some of the best
boxing seen In New York In many
moons.