The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08
WORRY AND LACK OF
 WORK HURT PACkEf.
By Jess Willard, Champion of tn.
 World.


 Farland-Mike Gibbons bout at BrisA- ton Beach proved such disappoin'- ment to so many boX-Otice fan. After all. those who paid for the:I tickets are the real critics upon whom the boying game depends for its existence However. the public should not be too quick to condemn the appearance of the bout.
 Conditions. when you sum up thS whole thing from start to finish almost prevented any other result Packey had not touched a glovo in eighteen months These eighteen months he spent in none too care. ful living on a trip around the world on his honeymoon. breaking into new environments and carrying tn. strain of personally looking aftel certain business interests which h" so little understood.
 For instance. he married a gil! who inherited Q brewery, and to pro tect his wife's interests, Packey in sisted rn " ing tae cC3trolling s.G-@ to make himself president of the concern. Packey knew absolutely nothing about the business. and th' strain probably worked on him harder than several months of train ins
 It is a well known fact that on account of the personal friendship which Packey enjoyed with one of the big steel kings, a lot of his savings were invested in securities and stocks which suffered greatly on account of the European war.
 Just such a nature as Packey's would worry over a circumstance which again would work more havoc to his system than would severn! ten-round matches. In fact, l doubt whether Packey would have ever re-entered the ring were it not O. account of these war cOndltior> which caused temporary decrease in his income and made S17.5oo look more attractive than ordinarily.
 No one match in Packey's caree1 justified him in taking too manH liberties with a middleweight o' Mike Gibbons reputed ability Ger tainly, ackey could not be expected tainly. Tackey could not be eNpectaf St. Paul Wizard" Naturally, hc
 l., ,ll. ..--. t1 .f feinting and footwork to puzzle his opponent.
 In figuring on his own speed. cleV. erness and feinting, Packey forget to judge himself as he is today He never dreamed that the lay-oH and many business worries would cause @ drawback And above ev- erything else, he did not figure that two or three years added to his for mer youth would hamper him in match.
 He said to himself: 'Ill box ring around this so-called champion from St. Paul"
 But Father Time snickered in his shadows, knowing full well that Packey was in his clutches, ana that he would fool the forme' Pride of the Stockyards."
 understand that the weights an nounced at the ringside were 1o1 pounds for Mcfarland and 153 pounds for Gibbons. The ordinary laymai naturally figured that Gibbons ha" nothing on Packey, for what does one pound amount to?
 The fact ot the matter is that Packey Mcfarland at l3S pounds would have come much nearer box ing rings around Gibbons than the overweighted Packey at l52. For all weight over 1%S pounds Wa. dead weight caused by irregular living, lack ol training and an un conquerable Father Time.
 On the other hand, Gibbons, natural miduleweight, who should never try to condition himself '' scale under the allowed poundas@ of 154, stepped on the scales at . o'clock in the afternoon one and one half pounds under the l47 pounds under which the match was made
 Now. boxing fan, imagine yourself at your true weight, let it be, w say, 154 pounds. And in order t0 carry out a set of articles of agree. ment you bring yourself down to l45 and one half pounds. Remem- Der, it is not only the road work and gymnasium exercise that cause you to reduce. but the worry ovPI the -fulfillment of your agree ment that pulls you down and works havoc with your system.
 When Gibbons stepped on tht scales at o'clock in the afternoon. weighing 145 and one-half pounds he was weak and half starved. His stomach was empty. Probably small cup of beef tea was all the nourishment that passed his lips for twentyfour hours before weigh ing time. But he was ''there' and underweight.
 What were his thoughts? What were his first words? It is hard fo'