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Show FREDDIE WELSH VS CHARLEY WHITE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP The stage is rapidly setting for the Trcddlo Welsh Charley White, world's i lightweight championship, twenty round, match under tlw shadow ofi Pike's Peak before tho elite Hundred . Million Dollar Club, nt Colorado Springs on Labor Day, September 4.i Roth boxers have arrived upon tho j scene of action and plunged into the grind of strenuous training with nl dash and vim which prcdlets n Imttlo that will write thrilling history In the annals of Flstlanu. Colorado,! alth this, the biggest sporting event' It has over staged, plumped right down In the middle of Us glorious valleys and majestic hills, Js lending the wurla of boxing fans In a wave in tho sago brush capped hills of Nova-1 da when Jim Jeffries was knocked oft his throne by Jack Johnson, or when tho gigantic Jess Willard regenerated tho white heavyweight ranks by tumbling Johnson into oblivion for the fatal count of ten on the far away havo lapped shores of Cuba. The sheer sides of an ideal arena, cobweb shaped, with seats for twenty thousand, are rapidly rising to tho fleece lined clouds, which lott very near one's head here, under the protecting pro-tecting precipices of tho heights that brought famo to the family of Pike. A hundred carpenters, with a nfaster builder at their head, nill Farnsworth, a man who has built moro lull park grand stands and stndtums than he can count, arc hammering, banging and chopping into shape this modern gladiatorial pit. Liko everything else this remarkable club of mllllonalrji does, It Is going to bear tho Brad-street Brad-street stamp of double A number 1, and then some. The gladiators who nro going to furnish fur-nish tho climax to all thevi preliminary prelimin-ary thrills, Messrs WeUh & White. han been kicking tho dust of Colorado Color-ado around, as they lilt the road, for the past week. Armlntc In Denver nt tho snmo tlmo, last Sunday night White hiked right out for the sceno of battlo, Colorado Spring!, Monday night, while Welsh stayed in Dener until Friday. They eac".i elected to pick out nice little cottages, establish themselves In comfort and do th'-lr boxing and bag punchiug nt the Colorado Col-orado Athletic Club, a per'ettlv equipped equip-ped institution with lino gymii:ilum und a model ring. Welrh has, up to date, engaged two spnrrlnp; partners; Benny Ohne7 and Jack Ilraddon. water on he will add a couple more. White will havo his brother, Jack White anj h rounding up a conplo moro boys to box with. His old trainer, Joe Th mas, Is In chargo of tho cam? md Eroll 'ihlry, known nil over the world as tho man ager of Pnckcy McFaiianl and also tho ex-manager of Willie Ritchie, is aUo in tho White party. Charllo Roso of Now York, Is looking after the conditioning of tho champion. Ho trained him for the recent Henny Leonard match In Now York. Enough raid. To date, there has not been nny betting to speak of, but tho sharp shooters nro beginning to look over tho market. Welsh, owing to the fact that ho Is champion, will get plenty of consideration from tho speculators hut fight fans who aro In tho habit of plunging on fistic events nro Inclined to establish White a favorite. His youth, stamina and wonderful hitting powers, the latter attested to by his long string of knockouts, wlir probablr send him Into In-to tho ring with the odds In his favor. fa-vor. Tho Colorado railroads aro ono nnd nil making special pieparatlons to haul tho crowd to tho rlngsldo and tako them back homo after tho hnt-tie. hnt-tie. Dener wll lhave moro speclnl trains put out of It on Labor Day than over left ono city for a sporting event Thero nr also specials from Pueblo, Crlpplo Crock, Leadvlllo, Trinidad Trin-idad and other Colorado towns. Chicago Chi-cago Is sending n special packed to tho doors with Whlto rootqrs. Other special trnlns nnd special cars nro being organized all over tho country, oven ns far cast as Now York whero Pommery, Dob Vernon, Is booking n select party of fans and a bunch of Gotham nowspaper men to take tho Journey in a luxurious parlor car that ho has named the Pommery speclnl. |
