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Show WELCH IS AFTER WLILIE RITCHIE ! , Ji ' 'fiy '-i ': . ' v - : Freddie Welch lightweight cham-! cham-! plon ot" Lngland who has been in this country for some time hunting trouble. trou-ble. The shifty Britisher is hot on the trail of Willie Ritchie, with whom he desires to mix in a twenty -round tete-a-tete for the latter's title of lightweight champion of the world Followers of the knights of the padded fist are of the opinion that We'ch and Leach Cross, the New York dentist, are the only two men now In America who have any chance whatever of taking the crown away from the Frisco boy. Before his recent re-cent fight with Rivers. Ritchie had I been placed in the undesirable class of pugilistic fandom because of hio apparent lack of desire to risk his title against any dangerous contender In a long distance fight. It is hoped that he will lose no time in answering the challenges hurled ai hi bead by Cross and the Englishman |