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Show i-DEGISlW ARE CALLED 11 JOKE Permit Cautious Fighters to Make" Easy Money; Welsh Case in Point i - 1 1 ibuno vpelal t t s , NLW ORK D b Th uo U wiou lu that t ? tights t statM naW , a joi f th g k 11 l in li n oi t. t hmpions Tth t t i, th u th eheokels ani t a 11 to r their, t tie in b rv 1 o h h hno lfchtwekht a plou t th b t nh right uon hasu t n ral rght to that t tin than a has. Ish outpo tel w ht.hts aiu o ho can to Vm h re leea s f the o k N a u tat laws wer u a It s, decisions j a 1 h laateu retained th k sh r o met N w rk tew weeks aj.o and i a most artistic, as well as eat ug It was hugrue s hj, via The ng terse i. a i h tl elsdi s g ard t il i), u au 1 landed on him almost tt w W h a the othe ban 1 I la i a ha ' j fin 1 nz aa open ng, and whtn ba dl 1 li 1 h T)low latkai stean W Ish has pckel up lose to $0H 1 t about sue fights -iui e h am h ountr E en I ut ha hah t i, has been n states where lec n w n t allowed lie and his mauug r ha been er car ful about that f iful tak ng any ehan es n V n losing his title. ekh li Cautious. W el h in our opinion is. afra 1 t sions n this countr w h W K t h e or an other top-not h Uht we ,,ht in states where dec on a allowd s me day in t e a ort I tufe ha ma be hvpsotited nto su h a mat h B t t wul be the tar otl t re lfh on the make. 11 s out t make as much moaev as he au o stalling ar und lor tea or tv.el e rounds an 1 loing little else than to protect himself trnm a knoekout pun h That s about all Welsh has done in tha fights since he has bean hare-guard hare-guard aga nst a sleep producing wal lor That's all he s afraid of lie ham t worked for points. He basn t gece n and mixed slugging toe to toe, and th giving th public alue re- eared He has tought defensrvely and i aut.o slv Looking at it from Welsh s tew those taeuca are wise ones. Look ng at it from the viewpoint ot th b that pays out Urge gobs of a ne t see Welsh fight it iso t a a dea We !h s pa d to fight. He doesn t ti"h he stalls. Aud Bob Fitzsimmosl a'ue ts that a stalling fghter is a lighter who gets b money under false pretenses Protection Is Eaaj Some day Welsh will go up against a fighter m a no-de lsion bout ana that cg.ter may be able to slip over a knockout punch But that is a vague possibility as long as Welsh continues fighting defensive fights. It a fairly mt e matter for a master boxer like Wei h to guard h a chin and his solar p exas region when facing a elagger if h de otes all of his tune and energy fa taat and to that alone. Tbat s what elsh has been doing There has been a lot of talk re-ent re-ent j of a Welsh Packev IleFarland fight Well bet about 10 to 1 that thev never will meet Paokev i will ng enough to try conclusions but Freddie isa t Freddie probably will signify his willingness to fight so as to kT tie pnblie into believing that he really wants to fight McFarland Th deal may go so far along that the par-i par-i es will get around to signing up ar 'tides. And then Freddie wiD spring his little kicker by insisting that Me-Farland Me-Farland make 135 pounds at ringside. And the proposed fight will be ofL McFarland never again can make 13o pounds unless he remains in a Turkish bath parlor for two years and goes without eating for a year and a half Paekey is well over the 110 mark. He might be able to slip down to 140 but no further Xnd that will be WeLh eieuse for calling off the match And, in the meantime Welsh will continue picking lemons from the lightwe ght garden and drawing thou sands of dollars for ten or twelve rounds of stalling all of which is per ; nusible because of the joke state laws that bar decisions on prize fights |