Show fANS s THINK MORE OF Df WilliE WILL RITCHIE THAN Of Mf MARAND ARLAND 1 PacKy's Quitting Tactics Serving Servin Only to MaKe Nahe for Ritchie a Reputation By News New S Sen 1 Ice I 1 BY BYE E. E J. J GEIGER CHICAGO GO Feb 9 Willio O. Wilho Ritchie i light weight product of San Franisco Fran Fran- isco co has by his lis clever and effective Etyle y captivated ted the thc pugilistic fans of l 18 section of or tho the country and tho the far fat farand and Emil Thiry's charge is rap rap- winning the famo fame that has bas been ering on Packey McFarland Of f course the tho Ilat cr's Jat er s 's dod lodging dodging in tac taco Hei c aided tin westerner to for forge e i front But BIt i is there as aster Ii ter there is HI no iio denying that f fact fatt t. t U lie hO has made good since the day 1 h b into prominence at Los n n. he held Freddie Welsh I ph jh twenty rounds and this with with- cine being properly trained for the tho h. h Jt it t will vilh remembered be DO that he lie hek lieV V k the battle on an n eleventh elc hour hourI I ihen Ad All Wol Wolgast ast was stricken strick n rould not Dot go JO on X In h he h 1 upon to tn fill nil just another r such uch In RII and nd Ii II he crowned himself withe with ft t e glory of a black cy P C es c at att K t that is I. HIP eXcuse e offered d Packey F rand grand mJ matched to bo box Young Krnc tJ to Jo enter the tho ring ja teady the crowd wa was l all cn- cn TI tulle HV many h had bad lIt their tickets pUt pur- wed ned anti and M r Tr T was wa in Phila- Phila II a. a hia hut the opponent w. w Will s somewhere In w York Promoter was up tree fc But Bul Ritchie IH that he heIn 1 in 1 and It met with approval al V ie e Wa was trained t to hi hii hiI best beit for he hl heto d 4 to break brcik on e with Mcl McFarland rland title hiIe wan Jn In hap having trained ti t k ack hut hut- V V y n- n lie hr man many Inn j he would not l have C had haij he hr bC been n DIM to The rue ton gong pounded and JM CC followed Eino Evno at III hl hi hh hc ht t te t fia e. la lad But Bu 1 Ritchie oon foon that the lie cleverness cle speed fl Inee nee e and defense lie pos Ic posed pos pos- J r ed a 1 was tar far superior t to that of the ern rL and with Ith a stiff tiff punch he J Ills his early Oa rho l lead PH a and nd won handily Few e boxers hare V la e ever el faced aced Erne and ando o e him rope repeatedly This F r lad did Th The accurate left lct Jab II y of at l' l Kine Errie rne pushed fife e wind In either blocking th the thenh theor n nh h or gOng going under Once Otice I no missed sed badly that lie ho w went vent nt to the tho floor For pr rc r e rounds RItchie his V imm man luRn nen eli slugged the remaining three and andas was Wall as proficient In the letter latter as in the iner IIi In Iii the fonn former r Willie is almost V er and hl his general ma makeup and aud i- i him hini to become th the popular V ht r that la was until a short aid Je a ago age f Th That t he lie IB is p popular pular Is 18 seen Inman in man orr offers being made him and it L probable that he will b be s seen spen en enIt I It t Wolgast after utter the champion sets gets good again He Is tin apt student and under the reful eye ye o of Manager Thiry his hi future V ici ell I bright Ritchie flitchie Is uS Uta return home If he lie can get et Fred Fred- W Tommy Tomm Murphy or OJ oi-bome oi some ome other V fk k In m a Frisco ring r. r lie lic wants to toV V W Ms his townspeople that thal ho Is a t credit t eIt city and this he certainly is i |