New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-26
Kid Mel artland
The Refereef for
Leonard-We lsh
BY FRED HAWTHORNE

BY FRED HAWTHORNE
Peace. blessed peace, rcigns once
more in the respective camps OF Harry
Pollok. manager Of Freddie Welsh
lightwe ght champion OF the world, and
Billy Gibson, mentor for Benny Leon
ard, American title holder, who meet in
the star bout at the Manhattan A. C.,
l55th Street and Eighth Avenue, next
Monday night.
For the last three or four days the
air has been rent asunder by the loud
bellowings Of Gibson and Pollok as to
who was 10 referee this bout, on which
the championship of, the world may
hinge. Pollok first named Billy Roche
as the third man in the ring. But
Roche, Pollok and Welsh have been
travelling on the same Pullmans to-
gether for many years. Gibson would
not hear Of Roche as the arbiter and
voiced a preference for Billy job, ms
own official referee at the Fairmont
any one of half a dozen others he
named.
The only thing remaining was :or
Pollok and Gibson to meet and argue
the matter out, which they did, and as
a result they selected Charley White,
"Old Good Eye" to referee. Now,
White has not been in the best OF
health for months, and II was agreed
that if Charley was too Ill the selec-
ton Of the referee should be left 20
him.
Yesterday White decided he could not
stand the ten-round fusslng, so he
named Kid Mcfarland as the referee,
and the Kid will be the man to step be-
tween Freddie and Benny when the fun
WAKES fast and furious on MONDAY
night. A better selection could hardly
have been made. Mcfarland has been
through the rough school Of the iighter
himself; he knows every angle OF the
game, and he is as straight as the
shortest distance between two given
points.
Both Welsh and Leonard expressed
utter indifference yesterday as to the
referee. It's the punch, not the ref
cree, that is going to win, they eacn
claim.
These things being so, sufficiency!
Let the fight go on. A large party OF
Philadelphians arc coming to Manhat~
tan to see the mill. Tickets are on
sale at the clubhouse. at Doyle's Bill
lard Academy and At Billy Gibson's.
Our heart was gladdened at the St.
Nicholas A. C.. on Thursday night. just
before Ted Kid Lewis started bouncing
right hooks off Mike O'Dowd's pacifst
countenance, b. the sight Of john Tea
Dunn, the Demoniac Demosthenes or
Flatbush and points cast. While we
were yet basking under Good Johns
benign smiles, the owner thereof left
his seat on the other side of the ring
and approached us.
"In that squared circle yonder.' be-
gan Dunn, "you observe two who arc
without n doubt the greatest battlers
OF their weight in the wide world. SO
be il. friend, but remembah, Next
Tuegday night, at the Broadway Sport
ing Club, of Brooklyn. the two wombats
of the prize ring, Eddie Wallace and
Tommy Tuohey. mix in murderous
combat for ten rounds-or less.
"You know the habits of the wombst,
do you not? So? Well. let me tell you that
the wombat is the fiercest of natures
wild things. and when two of them
start fighting the only way 70 separate
them is to use dynamite. Aha. sec
your eye fash. Over the river, IN
Brooklyn, then, will see you on Tues
day eve. when those wombatish light
weights tear into each other 'Tis
Welt"
Jimmie Johnston. Busy Bronx Ban
dit. knows how TO pick the juicy ones.
No sooner had the cheering and the
tumult died" after the Lewis-O'Dowd
bout, on Thursday night, than JimJoy
matched I'D Willie Jackson, conqueror
of Johnny Dundee. and the same
Tommy Tuohey who boxes at the Broad,
way on Tuesday night. Jackson and
Tuohey will appear in the main bout
al Johnston's st. Nicholas a. {. on
Thursday night of next week.
This match has been in the making
for several weeks and was TO have been
decided at the Empire A. c. two weeks
ago. but fell through. The boys met
/ once before at the Fairmont A. c., with
Jackson having q shade. but since then
! Tuchey has improved considerably, and
? it looks as though Meester Willie IS
going TO be very busy lightweight
q, tho 81 Nicholas on Thursday.