Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-08-13 | Page 10 | Ritchie and Welsh Prepare for Battle at Vancouver

RITCHIE AND WELSH PREPARE FOR BATTLE AT VANCOUVER t 1 J c Q b 1 a t a I id I i 2 x H l S J J t f S- S Ei 4 t r rf f ts t e 4 4 t I c. c C C 4 d vt k 4 x 4 ls i-ls I 7 Li t j t t a. a d.- d. 5 i It Willie Ritchie left and Freddie Welsh Lightweight champion Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welsh are getting lead ready for their battle battlo at Vancouver on September September Sep Sep- 1 1 which promises to be nn an In Interesting Interesting interesting in- in affair Nobody lo really lY expects Ritchie to lose loso his crown but the struggle straggle will be by no means moans tam tame i Ever since sinco ho graduated graduate t from a n featherweight wrestler into a boxer In 1906 1905 at Philadelphia Welsh has been trying to get a n chance at the championship cham n of ot the world is This his first opportunity He lie was matched with a a. year ago but Ad fell Ill with appendicitis Fred Freddie le Is champion of or England Hewon He Heon Hewon won on this honor by defeating Matt Wells In the tho last year or two ho hasn't dono much In tho the line but his defeat of or Wells shows that ho he still has the stuff sturt Among those Welsh has hats beaten beaton arc are Abe Attell Johnny Summers Matty Baldwin and Jam Jem Driscoll tho the latter on a out foul Ho has a a. clean knockout over o the tho Jawed iron-Jawed Bert Keyes in seventeen sot sev enteen rounds Also hi his hh record contains a f K O. O over the c celebrated Ray Bron- Bron son He met suet Packey Packy McFarland three times limes The results were draws In twenty five and twenty rounds and a a. loss on ten rounds In their twenty twenty- round match In En England land Packey was wasch ch cheated out of oC a decision If It Ritchie wins at nt Vancouver his I next battle battlo probably will be with Leach Cross in Now No-as' ow York for ten len rounds no decision in tho the latter part ot of September Except b by a knockout the could not bo ho in peril in a a. match with Cross so Ritchie Is already alread planning on a Thanksgiving day lay battle battle bat bat- battie tle tie in San Francisco either with Har Har- Harlem Harlem lem Tommy Tomm Murphy Murph or Ad Act Wolgast