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Show PAGKEY RESTS WHILE MIKE HAS A WORKOUT McFarland Nearly Down to Weight; Gibbons to Quit Wednesday. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Packey McFarland McFar-land took his train in er In an automobile today, pointing out the eights to his wife from a limousine and gathering ideas of architecture from the palaces of other magnates. Mike Gibbons meanwhile did things with the punching bag and his sparring partners, drilling through the regular schedule and winding up with a swim in the well-known ocean. These widely different forms of training train-ing merely are part of a programme w'hk'h the men have worked out for themselves. them-selves. McFarland is within three pounds of his ringside weight now and his principal prin-cipal object Is to guard against a loss of energy. Fighters who watched his workout work-out on Saturday said he looked afi well as he ever did in his life and expressed the private opinion that he had counted on a match with Gibbons all along and had been working out in private for months. The Judgment of distance and the rest of the old stuff that Packey showed, they declare, does not came back In a few weeks to a man out of the same for two years. Packey. they say, may have been a. retired capitalist and all that, but he took good care to keep the old earning power In condition. These same experts think that Mike Gibbons Is drawn a trifle fine. Mike, however, says that all Is a-s it should be. He gives his weight as about 151. and says'li1 plans to work bffl head off until Wednesday and then rest up. on the theory that by the time Saturday rolls around he will he restless and fretful fret-ful and In grand condition to flatten somebody. He looks ten pounds lighter than on his last appea ranee here, when he met Soldier Bartfield. |