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Show MTARLAND NOT ALARMED ABOUT HEliPUNCH Packey Says He Can Take Care of Himself; Has Never Yet Been Hurt in Ring. GIBBONS CONFIDENT, AS IS TO BE EXPECTED Lady Reporter Visits Both Camps; Thinks Packey Has "Such a Nice ace. By DAMON RUNT ON By Internaiinnal Nfs Service- NEW Y'lRK, Sept. S,--Mr, MFar land smiled a wan (mule. The lady reporter re-porter had said something. ' 1 It must be dreadful, ' ' she said, "to have to receive all that punishment. punish-ment. ' ' And so Mr. McFarland smiled a wan smile. A far-away look, a ni net v-mile-off look eame into his eves as he gazed out upon a vista comprised of much sand and plentv of ocean and bathing suitt-swollen suitt-swollen all out of shape by the astounding astound-ing contours of the persons inside 'em. ' ' Yea, ' continued the ladv reporter brightly, ' ' it must be terrible to even think of it. I mean of all (he punishment. punish-ment. ' ' Tft us go away f rom here. ' ' we suggested gently. ''Iiet ris go over to (ribbons 's auarters and sp him.' For Mr. Mr Karland was smiling that wan smile and people around were smiling wan smile and it was getting to be a very warm occasion out t here on the veranda of the Shelbourne at Brighton Beach this afternoon. Happy Diversion. The landscape was suddenly enlivened by a sartoriaf outburst that proved to he 01 ' Joe Norton of Xewark in a new trick hat and there were other man-i man-i ifestations in the form of Walter St. j Denis rushing about in his shirt sleeves, so the channel of conversation was happily hap-pily diverted. It was better so. One would hate to lose all the time it would have taken to explain to the lady reporter re-porter about Packey MoFarland " and ''all that punishment." Tis a foreign substance to the pride of the Chicago stockyards that punishment punish-ment thing and he does not think he 19 Kning to be introduced to it Saturday Satur-day eve when he meets Mike Gibbons, the Gopher State chot, in the old motordrome mo-tordrome at Brighton Beach. Thinks Packey Nice. "I've boxed with Gibbons and I know he can 't hurt me.'" said Packey today. ''No man ever hurt me in the ring, and whv should Mike be able to do it?" Naturally he added that he was confident con-fident of -victory. And, of course. Gibbons says -he will win oh, sure! ' The lady reporter does not think so. The lady reporter was considerably impressed by P. Mc-Far-land and by the number of places where food tflav be obtained around Brighton Beach. "He is a nice young- man." she observed, ob-served, meaning McFanand. even after Mike Gibbons had come over and shaken her hand with a mitt tightly wrapped up in a dirty bandage and" his brow teeming with the perspiration born of a hard workout with his brother Tom. Thinks Packey Nice. ''This Mr. Gibbons is very rapid with his head and feet, but I think Sir. Me-Farland Me-Farland is nicer. Re has a good face." And so he has, but it is just now a face slightly warped by lines that sug- i gest worry. On the' other hand, or rather, on the other countenance, Mike ' Gibbons seems as cheerful as ever, which is not so very cheerful at that! Mike always did wear an expression that made one think of a graveyard stew, but his heart is light and buoyant And the fight? What of the fight? What do you think? Well, we think the same way. |