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FOUR GOOD MEN MAY MEET RITCHIEWith Freddie Welsh naming bank into bis old English libampionshlp; Willie Ritchie grabbing the crown from Ad Wolgast; Packey McFarland retaining his marvelous skill, and Jack Britton crying for matches, everything looks lovely in ike lightweight division of battlers for many a day, and now, gonticmcn. we have thegreatest quartette of boxers that could be gathered even- if searching parties raked over all parte of the globe.No on?: Js eligible to die bruiser” dims. Each has climbed to the front by sheer cleverness and not by knocking out his opponents.Ritchie and Welsh have a slight shade in a way, as both held championships. Pac-key, while no title holder, is the champion money-getter of the bunch. Britton is endeavoring to induce McFarland or any of the others to agree to a match. In all probability he will meet Packey first, and if successful take on Rilcbic* and then • Welsh. ;Another agreeable angle to the ! crowd is that not one of the four is ; a 133-pound lightweight, Ritchie made that weight for Wolgast, but be wasn't nt I he ringside. The conqueror of Wolgast is roally a 135-pound at 3 o'clock boy, and this allows Ills three i rivals to come in without reducing to !a harmful point. 1Tt looks as If the boys will have to get together some way to produce a ' lender of tlie bunch. II is the first time in many years that wo ever had : such a galaxy of chnmpious and near ; champions. That is what is causing all ’ the excitement.
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Ogden City Evening Standard
Ogden, Utah, US
Sat, Dec 28, 1912
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