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Show PACKEY AND JACK HAVE SIGNED UP P.iCkey McFarland and .TacU Britton will box at the Garden Athletic club on March 7 All the conditions and I the several obstacles that stood In I the path of the consummation of the match have been swept aside. Both lads have agreed to muke 136 pounds at 3 o clock the day of the bout The stumbling block which threatened threat-ened to prevent the 10- round session ses-sion between McFarland and Brit ton was the question of weight Pack-lo) Pack-lo) held out tor (35 pounds at 31 'o'clock; .lack Insisted on 135 pounds ringside. For several weeks neither would concede the point. Mi Farland began to talk about a trip to England to meet Freddie Welsh, the English champion. Tins action caused Britton Brit-ton to think he mlsht lose a chance to box McFarland. As he has been after af-ter sucli an opportunity for nearly a year; he finally conceded the point when Billy Gibson over the long-distance telephone told him that Mc -Frrland said "3 o'clock or nothing"' McFarland has been Instructed by Gibson to come on here at once and begin training for the match Pnckey has returned a reply to the eflccr that he will reach here loda Britton is in good physical condition, as he has Jl.cen taking part In boxinc matches in the south and west for the last two months. Before he comes here to ptart in active work for the hie match, FaoV will box Freddie Huffy in Buffalo Buffa-lo on February 27. Danny Morgan, manager ot Britton. Is now in Los Angeles, whore he will handle K. O. Brown In his match against loe Rivers at Vernon, Cal . on the afternoon of Washington's birth-' 'd-iv Morgan will take the train at 6 o'clock that night and will reach Buf-falo Buf-falo In time to be with Britton when he laces Duffy Young Brown an ) Willie Schaefferl will furnish the main bout of ten ' (rounds at the Irving Athletic club on the afternoon of Washington's birth-day. birth-day. Brown recently has won many ! bouts and is regarded as one of the I "climbers" in the llehtweight dhlslon Schaeffer has held his own with Johnnv Dohan, Young Ahearn and Kid Alberts. lu the second ten-rounder, Young j Graedell meets Jimmy Coffey Grae-dell Grae-dell recently met One-Round Hosan j Coffey, the only Indian in the box-' ing game, being a full blooded Mo-(hawk Mo-(hawk Indian, proved In his recent battle bat-tle with Young Shugrue and Louis Dunonthic at the Madison Square harden har-den that he Is one of the toughest lightweights In the country. I |