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Show I FREDDIE WELSH AND CROSS MEET TONIGHT By H. M. W ALKER Los Angeles April 27. Tomorrow i night s scheduled twenty-round battle at Vernon with leach Cross is all that , stands between Freddie Welsh and thf I most determined Compaign for the world's lightweight championship that the British boxer has ever put up This is saving something, considering ! i that Frederick has been chasing the titleholders since the days of Joe Gans. j "If we win." sn-s Manager Ham I Pollock, "we will immediately post i $5.00n In cash, this sum to go as a side bet for Willie Ritchie "Welsh has done everything that has heen asked of him. He once whipped whip-ped Ritchie decisively And Fred has beaten the English and Australian champions, too. In disposing of Joe Rivers we drove another topnotcher to cover. ' And in taking on Cross we are making a dangerous match. But I figured th? risk worth taking. "It is reported that Champion Ritchie and Jim Coffroth left San Francisco tonight for the south. If so, we may expect a ftne little rumpus rum-pus before William gets awsy "' Manager Sain. Wallach does not take kindly to the idea advanced that Cross is boxing for the gate receipts alone. Samuel maintains that the New Yorker is still In the fight for the lightweight title. |