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Show FREDDIE WELSH CROSS MEET T0I1I If Victorious, English Champ Will Immediately Post Bet for Ritchie. By II. M. WALKER. Special lo Tlic Tribune. I.OS A.VCBI.ES, April 27 Tomorrow nlphfs sclieiliiletl t'.vonty-roinid battle at Vernon with Leach Cross is all that stands between i'mldlc U'eleh and tha most dot.jniiliicd campaign for the world's lightweight oliamplonslilp that tho British boxer has ever put up. This Ik savins .something, vonnlrlorliip thut I-Vcdcrlclc has been chasing- the Utlohylders slneo the days of Joe Cans. "If "a win,"' says .Manager Harry Pollock, Pol-lock, "wc will immediately pout 55000 in Sio nitohle?' t0 S aS 11 UU bct for "W'elstli has done everything Hint lian been aflced of him. Ho oncu whipped R t.:hle 0oolFhl!y. And Fred has be t cn 0 bjBHsli and Australian champions loo. In disposing of Joe Rivers K drove another topnotcher to cover. 'aiiiI In taking on Cross wo are maklne a dangerous match. But T figured the rl?k worth taking. mc ..,.iltn,s liSn?let! lllaL f'h!'niplon Rltchlo '.d .Jirm Coffrolli loft San Francisco to-i to-i "r '. V.1,110 "u,uh- If F0- wo may expect awa" " lun,PU3 before William gets Manager Sam Wallacli docs not tako kindly to iho Idea advanced that Cross Is ooxing for the jrato receipts alone. Samuel nmlnlalns that the Now Yorkor Is still h the fight for tho llghtwolght tltlef |