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BIG FIGHTER HERE, READY TO SLUMJohn Welch, known In pugilistic circles as Kid Klt;1 wards, arrived In Hagerstown and will try to arrange a match with some local lnne.\ lie came her* from York, where h w.is referee at n private match pulled off this week Edwards says he Is ready to meet all comers of Ilk pounds.A Mall reporter found the noted tighter doing one round fracas with a red dog in a silver arena at the City Hotel. The red dog was overweighted, but made a game resistcnce.What cheer, inatle, he said, aa the dog took the count, and the Mail man said that getting up the fight was all right but there was a large and ponderous man on N’„ Jonathan who had a prejudice against sparring on account of certain State and City laws, and he was liable to fall on the affair and flatten It out.Hard lurk, said the pugilist, when a man can’t put on the mlts and eat up a couple of pugs here? He was told he could not.He then said he knew Kid Herrick who gave a disappearing fistic act here and left his wife to fight the board bill at the Franklin. It was not in his class, and Mr. Welch said he knew him well and he was a good fighter. As for himself he had no lady along to do the sobby act In a Left at the Alter drama.Mr. Welch Is a slim man and Is said to be a shower lighter.
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Hagerstown Mail
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, Mar 22, 1907
Page 7
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