Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-04-06 | Page 8 | Many Visitors See Cross in Workout

uu M ANY VISITORS SEE CROSS IN WORKOUT Los Angoles, April 5. Fully 1000 cam) visitors watched Leach Cross In training at the Doylo resort, Vernon, Ver-non, todav. Cross hooks up with Freddie Welsh, the British light-Weight light-Weight champion, for a twenty-round bout at Vernon on the night of April 28. Cross appears to be in better condition con-dition than upon his last trip to the coast, when he was hurried into Los Angeles match just after having fought a slap-bang affair with the champion, Willie Ritchie In New York. Patsy Clinc, brought along as chief sparring partner, gloved it with Cross for four rounds, and a fast exhibition it was. Cross is training more for speed than anything else, realizing that In Welsh he Is meeting the fastest fast-est lightweight the class has known since the days of James Edward Britt. Cross will leave for the Wheeler Springs mountain resort tomorrow afternoon for a five days' stay. Welsh will begin training this week. The English champion boxed an exhibition ex-hibition bout in San Diego last Friday night. Joe Levy, manager for Joe Rivers, returned from Chicago to'l?,y, ami will be in consultation with Promoter T. J. McCarey tomorrow regarding the future plans of the Los Angeles lightweight.