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Show HMD II BOX WELSH FOB Wt Winner Will Be in Line to Box Joe Gans for World's Championship. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGFLES, -luno 20. Freddie Welsh and ' i acy " McFarland arc tho centers of attraction in the pugilistic pugi-listic world right now,' -and when they meet on the Fourth of -July in Jim Jtf- fries ;s big arena at Vernon, fight fans all over tho country will eagerly. w at ch for the result of tho battle. To all intents aud purposes tho boys will fight for the lightweight championship champion-ship of tho world. .loe Gans, who retains re-tains the title at present, is got ting into the Methuselah class every day. and almost al-most any time some good, strong young fellow with plenty ol heart and lots of speed and cleverness will come along and cop tho old master. Either Mr Farland or Welsh is considered capable of doing it should the chance eouio, and it is highly probable that the winner win-ner of tho July 4lh mill will have tho honor. While I ho fans throughout t he country coun-try do not k"ow very much about Welsh there is no denying tho English boy s class. Little by little, ho Das torged lO U1U num. in uiu "j;"ni-'h"v and on Decoration day ho showed so much speed and cleverness in disposing dispos-ing of Phil Brock that Jeffries immediately imme-diately recognized his worth and sigued him with MeFarland. Tho English lad has been in the swat business a few years, but most of his time was spent around Philadelphia and through tho Fast in six-round at-fairs. at-fairs. Thcso slowly but surely developed devel-oped tho apoed and science in him, aud wkon he camo West to go over a longer route Freddie was finally ablo to handle han-dle himself and his opponents. Siuce ho hooked up with Harry "Gil-more, "Gil-more, Jr., as his manager, MeFarland has been clevorly "nursed" along with a view to making him champion of tho world. Ho was gradually sent to tho front, and not until the last few months was no allowed to tackle anything of importunco in the lightweight lino. But beginning with a meeting with Freddie Fred-die Welsh over tho ton-round route in Milwaukee ho was sent against the top-notchers, aud nothing but the Eng; lish boy stands in his way to tho title of white lightweight champion of the world. So now tho issuo is to bo faced squarelv, and whoever is- returned victor vic-tor either through Jim Jcf fries 's verdict ver-dict or a knockout punch administered, his opponent will bo proclaimed champion cham-pion of tho whites and clearly in lino to succeed Gans. Welsh is attracting more than his sharo of attcution through his peculiar i methods of traiuin. 13 o has located his camp at Venice of America, the noted I resort, on the Pacific ocean a few miles from Los Angeles, and there ho and his staff of training partners entertain enter-tain large crowds of summer visitors daily, Freddie is a great lover of the water, and each morning he takes a long swim straight out; to sea, sometimes some-times accompanied by his sister, Kate, , who is also an expert paddler. MeFarland 's camp is located at Jack Doyle's South Side club, and tho "stockyards wonder" goes through a hard grind there every day. lie is near, ly down to fighting trim, and each man promises to enter the ring iu superb condition. |