Show FIVE STATES TAT HASE AI p BA ON Wl H Minnesota Pennsylvania Colorado New York and Wisconsin Say They Have Had Their Fill of Champions Champion's Businesslike Fighting Methods Its It's Great for Freddie Not for Fan I By W. W D. D Bratz LAMPION FREDDIE WELSH is becoming about as popular in centers of the country as a skunk 5 at a swell soiree Minnesota has raised a barrier baner against the worlds world's light weight title holder Philadelphia will have none of him Denver is so peevish at his tactics that there is talk now of a law to bar all aU from Colo- Colo rado New York City has had its fill Now comes the august boxing commission of Wisconsin with a probe of Welshs Welsh's ring methods that may result in barring him for all time from from boxing rings inthe in inthe inthe the Badger commonwealth This latest latet move against the worlds world's champi champion n is the aftermath aftermath aftermath after after- math of his battle with Richie Mitchell at Milwaukee last Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night N Welsh was thoroughly beaten beaton and disgraced dis graced In that encounter Ho He made only a 01 pretense of fighting In explanation thereof the titleholder ha hu has claimed that he was III II previous to and during the contest Tho The Wisconsin commission however contends ll that Welsh elsh successfully passed the physical l examination prior to th the match his temperature was normal and his pulse re regular lar and that following the medical l te test t Welsh elsh Indulged In a mans man's sized sited meal After Afler the thc bout another nother physical physical physical phy phy- examination was waR undergone and no evidence of Illness was manifest For his services Welsh drew draw down ap approxImately approximately approximately ap- ap proximately Spectators claim that he took the themon mon money y under false falle pretenses PROBE IN WISCONSIN The first t step In the probe was cas as taken at a meeting meet 0 of the thc Badger hoard board last week Before final Judgment Is 15 reached Welsh will be bo given full futI opportunity to appear Icar and defend his actions The hear hear- Ing mr I is set for February 5 Y To date the only line of defense offered of- of h by the champion Is Js that he was Ill He te has halt supplemented this b by n a statement to the effect that he was forced to fight I on the defensive continually because of the vicious pace that Mitchell set at it the outset of or the contest and which ho he kept up to hc the final ball hl Further Welsh admits ad ad- mils mits that even If It he had been In perfect physical l condition It Is doubtful whether ho he would have made a much b better lter show enow- showing Ing against Mitchell because the latter Is Js so 80 the champion declares one o of the games game's rea really high class light 1 weights Unfortunately for Welsh neither the tho boxing commissioner nor the patient fans are arc taking him at his word oro The Tho alibi does not ring true CRITICISM INCREASES Criticism of Welsh and his methods have been lIeen gC general frol for some ome months past jast but It tl has never been so Intense as In Iii Inthe Inthe the past six months The storm really started with his lila match with Charley Chancy at Colorado Springs There was too much fanc fancy footwork clever clover blocking and and clinching nt and not enough of the good old give hive and take punching that American fans like to see Welsh drew rew down close to for this affair In which ho was hardly hard marked Colorado ring patrons are aro red blooded When they pay to see a fight the they want the real thing and antI not hot a pretense They are all aU net het up about It yet eL Just the theother theother theother other da day one of ot the Colorado h legislators announced that he ho would Introduce a hilt bill billIn In the present session lon to bar all ring matches itches hereafter and thereby by prevent a repetition of oC the fiasco SHERMAN PEEVED Previously ly to the Colorado Springs af affair af- af I af-I fair Harr Harry Sherman boxing l promoter at atthe atthe atthe the twin cities sought to bring Welsh and White together for a ten round setto The da lay day before the contest however an n argument developed d over the selection of ot ofa ofa ota a referee anI and the thc match was called off I R By B tome some It H Is claimed that the promotIng ing clu club wa was waK H. H party to this as RS the payIng paying pay- pay Ing public had failed to fall very heavily for tor the entertainment and the th prospects were that a financial bloomer would re- re suit Whether hetner this Is tho the real Inside truth or 01 not Cannot be bo learned arned A At tan any rate thc they have sou sought hl to make Welsh the goat An echo of the affair came caine the theother theother theother other night when Welshs share of the receipts In the thc Mitchell match was at attached attached nt- nt h by an agent of Shermans Sherman's It appears ap pears hears that t the e latter att wants to collect Continued on page pa-c 4 4 |