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Show f Among the Sports j Second race, selling, five and one- half fiirlnngs Abrasion won, Coon-skln Coon-skln second. Golden Butterfly third Time. 1: OS 3-5. Third race. Belling, six furlongs San Gil won, Barnsdalo second, Toll Box third Time, 1:13 3-5 . Fourth race, purse, one mile Taboo won. Old Honesty second, Eye Bright third. Time, 1:40 2-5. Fifth race, selling, one mile and seventy sev-enty yards noseburg won. Bndymlon second. Belle Scott third. Time. 1.4 5. VS. Sixth rsco, soiling, one mile and on eighth Oberon won, Mamie Alg'd second, sec-ond, Harry Scott third. Time, 1.53 3 5. M'FAMii NAY NOT MEET WELSH By Edwin V. Smith ) Chicago, Feb. K. Packey McFar-l.uid McFar-l.uid has taken old London town. The Chicago lighter proved a great surprise sur-prise to tho Londoners, who have been iisi'd to seeing the tin ear, mugging typo of bruisers, so common to the . Kngllsh ring, and when the Stockyards toy sprung his curly head and his Chicago Chi-cago smile upon th critics they fell in a lieap. ' The only man that ever beat Fred-dlo Fred-dlo Welsh," put behind his name.. makes Packey a big card upon tho I other islde. They fairly Idolize Fred- ! lle over there and think he is the j greatest thing that ever happened. No , wonder then they get pop-eyed when j lare to face with the young fellow who trimmed their Idol. Freddie has bon ttylng to explain this defeat in English publications by abusing our old friend Mslachy Hogan. hut this loes not wash with those who know. Packey has hooked on, too. That's j the be.it part of the game. They have : picked out no easy mark for him, for Ills first customer will bo oung Joseph, Jo-seph, a s'urdy lightweight that Welch deftatod nftfr a gruelling contest not fo very long ago and first proved hl claim to tin- title of champion of Great Britain. ; Welch made a mess of It, It would r.ppear from thir. side, by declining to hox Packey at the new F.nclisli .cale for llghtw el: litn in." pound at" two o'clock Frcddlo will he confronted by a thallenge from the Stockyards : boy,-aud instead of staring him off wlih something reasonable la the line of gp.b, staled that Inasmuch as the , match would bo an International ff- ' fair, he did nl see why I' shnu'd r."t t-o fought at IS."; poundn at the ring j fide, ii that the whiner could got o:i a mar.-h with Battling Nelson for tin-world's tin-world's title. It was a feeble excuso, at an rate, and now word comes that Welch has takon on Jem Drlseoll for . a match, the battle to go where the 1 best purse Is offered. ! It Is taken as strange on this side , of the wa'er that Great Britain's j champion should renlg on England's : new scale of weights the flirt time a ! formidable looking Invader comes I over. William Will, editor of Sport- J ing Life, the greatest and jiiv.t. in- j fliientlal sporting publication In Great j Britain, worked tooth and nail to have the new weights established, and fjr-ther, fjr-ther, wishes to make them worldwide in their acceptance. To get this throw-down throw-down from the lightweight champion the first crack out of the box mu6t be maddening to a man of that class. At any rate, Packey will get a match with Welch ultimately, If Welch remains In England, but he Is not likely to do this. He Is elated to come to America within a week or sr, aJong with Ian Hague, the heavyweight, heavy-weight, th pair doubling up under the monagmfnt of IlRrry Marks Promises of a heavy purse might make the Welshman change his mind, but that Is hardly likely. A letter Just received from Packey in cheerful enough, as he and Pat KJn-neally KJn-neally have found much to Interest them over there. They are staying at the Hotel Cecil and evidently having a ropilar old cut-up of a time. It didn't take Packey long to get himself iHterviewed. |