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Show ' : RITCHIE-WHITE I j GO IS CERTAIN I By SAM P. HALL, JR. i Chicago. 111., .March 31. The Wil- ; ; fie Ritchie-Charley While- match for , Milwaukee in May is half closed. Nate Lewis today signed the 'articles for ) White in the presence of Tom An drews, the Milwaukee promoter, w.ho hopes to stage the championship attraction at-traction in the auditorium " - arena. White is to get 25 per cent of, the gross receipts. - ' : Andrews signed White at Ritchie's i ' suggestion. The promoter will give the champion a ?10,000 guarantee with i a 40 per cent privilege, the same as he received for the Wolgast contest. . Three round-trip tickets from San Francisco to Milwaukee and some ex- i , pensc money also will be dropped i, carelessly into the Ritchie. Jeans. The date for the big battle fs left ! optn, that Important dethll being up to Ritchie, who will name tlfc day i soon after he gets through with Tom- I my Murphy at Daly City. The i weight also is not settled, but It will B be either 135 or 134 pounds at 5 m j o'clock. White says Rtchle has said P he will do 134 at that hour for him. K j but if Ritchie decides 135 will suit W him better, then it will be 185. The r ' champion always has the last -word, p J , Andrews mailed the articles to Rit- I chie tonight. Tom has complied with f' j y every stipulation made by the cham- !, I pion, and avers there is no way for J i Ritchie to avoid the meeting now T i without admitting that lie docs not I ! care to fight White. j Leach Cross, on his way to Los An- j'-jf geles to fight Freddie Welsh on April h" ' j 26, was in the Lewis gymnasium when . j Nate was putting the pen to the pa- i pers. Leach remarked.: j "You are a lucky fellow, Nate, ."i-. a , White has a. grand chance to w'hale ff'd - Ritchie. Willie is the" boy 1 have ' been, after ever since our New York ' IK- meeting." |