Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-08-27
WANTS ANOTHER TRY
Mcfarland Anxious for Second
Bout With Gibbons.
ADMITS MIKE IS CLEVER
But Packey Says That He Needs
More Weight to Punch
Effectively.
BY 7. S. ANDREWS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, August 26.-Strong eff
forts have been made the past few weeks
by some very prominent boxing promoters
to induce Packey Mcfarland to re-enter
the ring and engage in another contest
with Mike Gibbons or some of the stars
In his class. Packey. who has been at
tending to the brewery interests Of which
he is in control at Joliet. ILL.,, has about
made up his mind to quit the game for
all time. During a chat with Packey in
one of the cooling rooms of the brewery
at Joliet a few days ago. the former light
weight star admitted there was one fight
he would like to engage in again and that
was with Mike Gibbons, but he felt that
there was no possible chance of arrang-
ing a contest under the conditions which
he had named and therefore he had come
to the conclusion that it would be best to
retire for all time.
There have been a great many people, y
remarked Packey, who were under the
impression that the fight between Gibbons
and myself at Ocean Beach n. Y, was a
frame-up and that Mike Gibbons did not
do his best in that contest. / want to
state now that Gibbons fought absolutely
on the square and did everything in his
power to win the contest. II there was
any one little bit afraid of the meeting
before it took place, II was myself. Not
that feared Gibbons or anything of that
kind but l was a little doubtful about
myself / had been out of the game
nearly two years and was weighing quite
heavy at that time. l was not sure Of
myself in boxing at first. and for that
reason l was the one who was skeptical
about the result and II was for that very
reason that i tried to impose conditions on
Gibbons in regard to weight. that would
bell. Ia, fo I...l t.,
sisted upon more liberal weight he
would have won out easily, as I had
no idea he would agree to make the
weight he did.
have forfeited my weight money and
gone in heavy, but he failed to do so
and the result was that he fretted and
worried himself to death almost before
that night he had absolutely no
strength. He hit me with right crosses
frequently, but / soon knew that there
was no strength behind them and that
is why ! felt confident after the fifth
round / want to say now. that to my
mind Gibbons is one of the greatest
middleweights in the world, and il in
proper condition, would beat them all.
I'm afraid though, that he has hurt
himself by continually keeping down
in weight Put Gibbons against a
strong fellow, no matter whether he is
heavier or not. and even against Les
bdrcS with an MS strength. ana am
sure Mike will beat the whole bunch
in twenty-round goes or under, but
put him against a clever man like Jim
my Clabby and he will not do SO we'll.
because he dare not take the chances.
IL / had been following the fight game
right along, / think j should have made
the trip TO Australia to meet Les Darcy.
From what I hear. Darcy must be a
wonderful fighter and / think il is GO
ing 10 take a clever man. one of the
Gibbons type, to beat him. of course
he may he more clever than I think, but
! can only Judge from what accounts
! have seen in the papers II is my in
tention later on to make trip to Aus
traiia. for ] have a longing to see the
sporting people of that country. ] in
tend 10 take my wife along and 1t is
possible THAT I may agree to box Just
one contest there, which would in all
probability be more of an exhibition
just 10 show the people my style OF
sparring. ! understand that a great
many there have been interested in
nay work. and / would be only toe
pleased to give them an idea of my
style OF boxing, IL only in an exhibit
ton"