Show FREDDIE WELS A. A WINNER At THOUGH lIE HE AS AS NO MANAGER MANAC Freddie Welsh the English light lightweight lightweight weight is a rare example of or a boxing In Instructor Instructor instructor In- In who has made good In the ring Boxing Instructors seldom amount to tn anything when e It comes down to real fighting h R As a rule ul they are fighters hI first and afterwards instructors Mike Donovan Dono the old time light weight for Instance Welsh came over here from England some years ago without pu pugilistic l aspirations aspirations aspirations aspi aspi- rations hut but with the Idea of going Into the or physical l culture busi busi- ness He settled in Philadelphia and for two months instructed the few who came his way There wasn't much money montoy In that game and naturally to 1 Welsh e l joined t the army r of preliminary lh boys who ojO make e their pl headquarters headquarters head head- ad quarters in the slow town fight ht clubs He lie got his 8 first s match finally and won by tho good o old knockout route route in three rounds This bout made him and before long he got a chance with the star era Matty 1 Baldwin Young Erne Tammy Tommy Tommy Tom Tam my Love Bert Keyes Keres and the others None of ot them ever beat him He went west then and fought anybody and every every- body In four forty battles he lost but one otis decision de de- de- de elsion and that to Packey McFarland at Milwaukee There was a great line hue and cry about this verdict and according to all accounts Welsh got the worst of it There was an odd agreement on the weighing in time for Cor this fight Although the fight didn't start until 10 o'clock at night McFarland Insisted on weighing In at 9 o o'clock clock in the morning He made pounds then to Welshs Welsh's and by ring time Packey weighed all of ot Attell often tried to explain his defeat by Welsh by saying the rain which fell during the bout made the tho ring slippery so that he couldn't bring his footwork Into play but as Welsh remarks the floor was slippery for him too Welsh believes he can heat beat Attell any time be because because be be- cause he ho says he lie has height and reach on on him The strange part of ot Welshs Welsh's success Is that he never had hail a manager and yet within the last fifteen months he has made something like lite Welsh is five feet six elx and one halt Inches Indies tall tell but ut he ho doesn't look look-It clothe clothe- |