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Show FREDDIE WELSH NT CLEVERMAN OF YORE Lightweight Champion Has Failed to Show Class in Recent Matches. By RINGSIDE. By Triune Special Sr-ort Service. XEW YORK, Feb. CO. Freddie 'olsli, lightweight champion of h? v o;M, is ih anomaly of the modem day prize r i i: g . Hero to C a v o an mi-di-pute.i tirieuouier whoso ortdrn:an-jps ortdrn:an-jps since he as: ended to the. lightweight pinnacle nave been mediocre: yet, nis exhibitions before he artino": pio ld;l-pound ld;l-pound premiership were of tiie superlative superla-tive order, oven good enough I u r a chumpion. Which proirp's the qut ion : Ha WeU.li seen his best d.iys in :- nnpJ Ono i? irwliued to answer in the affirmative af-firmative alter vriTiiesm Vreddie in his recent boms. A'ni the .siisptfion :s strengthened by V.'clsh's own wonh, uttered the. other day, wiien he sr. id that he expected to reiu-e from the ring within tv;o vears. If Welsh is rea!ly the author, of thes-e words, they are a frank admisiiou that the lightweight ciiampion does not think he is capable of ueietiditi his title b-yond that tiir.e. V."ho over heard of a newly crowned puu'i-'Stu-kig tgurir i-:dy two years ahea i; r'aurdcu on iy Mic-h a scorr time in which to capitalize L:s ch;rtiipio:-.ship J It has never been, dene before, and Freddie e h ror such an inventive genius a to s:art this innovation unless un-less be as ilrra in his eonv;.-t."n that he ra-.'.-t; eudire. as eLan:;niu for longer :dan the teriod he has 'a:ed. 11 is worhy of note that- Wed-a lias not put r.r oze tr.i'.y O-'od b'tttie. sdie h1 came irto ps-siuu of tae championship. cham-pionship. It i- co:hu:j ex ra'irdinary ; t-.t ii :--.ana r-.i :o p.: Kitei.ie o: h:s "title. It v. a a K i t c a : e ' s poor t h i i a g . rsher than V. eVu s si'.rerior bosi-i; ability that cos: the American thv ehanirionship. By Way of Review. Lc: ':s revie-v some cf W--h '3 Liu'-, since th::t :'rj:zi .Jay in .T.;dy of iit vear. Fred lie 's tir-: bc:t as a '-'"am-lim took r u i.iizn Xa"y F-..:;wi-z. Pucr c.i S i.dd;:'-. a rr.ci.-ve: it: hii day, was ar.- :o hvd V.'-N on eve:: term for r'r.e vr -:' tr-? twelve' ro-;nd:. and the a-ed'-on cily v . hei: Freddie came t'arr.ih witu ito joo : last rc'"nd.-. " 1 A few w-Vs !a-"' r. J;u. my E'-: ffv clear!-.- u-t-o:d V.e'.'h :n a t-n-ro'ind" tout, but as tho T:-re- ;:ot r iver Jd to render a d ee:-: a Kro ii-; af r t a r r. a ::-'v Whir k r. .-,.- e i . b i:h th Bri:on n rour: n ?. wau-ie-3, an-i a n'or.-" of the ?o-" -d : -i : rts ?si i t a a V,"hi v a i i pu'abdv he vi,;rc-. Tari V.'ehh -ar to the rarTo: -s.ci r razlit- d h:r- f: f to be -h 'n i; r ?v ''Younz" .,;'ii'.".p, rj 1h. vTpl?h "a exuer'.-nce iv iomtd'lnz" h-e years. 1 h J r t ar di y V.h i EJ-;fZr-. iL-a:r.d. hr-r'al. ::c.z a '.rhdte, rc'.'i VTih e-'aa f.r hid' h-,ut. 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