Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-02 | Page 7 | Among the Sports

nelson adu must ast dst meet t packey mearland MT arland t by ed NV smith chicago nov ait 2 it looks now as it if johnny thompson will be sidetracked in favor of packy mcfarland in tho the next match made tor for battling nelson on tho the pacific coast the latest from the pacific metropolis lg Is that promoter coffroth prefers mcfarland to thompson as a drawing card even though he admits that according to his dope Thomp thompson soa stands the bettor better chance of chipping nelson now that packey has hag tome come out but flat 4 footed and saldie would tackle the champion liam plon over any distance of 0 ground aven even up to 45 rounds nelson cannot well vell stick to his scheme of retirement even for a brief time the off offers ors from the coast will be so attractive and public sentiment Is so BO set against a good fighters idleness that nelson will have to hark packey says ho he will box nelson tor for a side bet of many of the students of game think mcfarland will have trouble getting this amount of money a as s a gamble with nelson but abut from the reports given out by harry gilmore when the latter was waa last in chicago it Is IB going to be an easy matter to raise that amount the american printed a story at the time that one south side admirer of the little irish ae scrapper rapper had decided to find halt half of the amount himself and if packey did not want to raise the remainder mal rider he would do it himself among personal friends with this in mind rackey packey evidently made the bot boast that he has the backing and would take tho the chance now there is a nothing for mcfarland to do dd but accept a match with elloa nelson el soa if the proper inducements are offered he has progressed so far in ia his fighting divi division that there can be no backward step every time packey boxes a second or third rater he makes his old position of sidestepping nelson in a long battle more untenable lackeys Pac keys insistence that he is 13 too young and inexperienced for the long route no longer will hold water with the public