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PACKEY KID FIGHTER WHODOESN'T SCATTER BLOWS-when a boy or sixteen. ’ The men kept a pair of boxing gloves bandy, and•.here was a little sparring practice every noon. Packey fell In love with the gloves, and never ;n;ssed a chance to put them on. One day a colored I boy named Fox allowed that be could 1 give Packey a thumping, and a scrap ;*..as fixed up.I Early In the battle, the colored boy• landed a stinger on Packey's nose.and• the boy's fighting blood was roused.ul the next round he -went after Fox’sbugle, and tapped it four times, good and hard.- Then the colored lad quit, i “i ain’t gwfne to fight no man what don’t scatter his blows,” he declared..That-was a lesson to McFarland.and one o' Lis. fighting percepts is not to scatter bis blows. He bunched them . successfully on Leach Cross in their recent mixup. and he hopes to hand . Murphy several clusters.1 McFarland-,got about *2,000 as his ! share or the Cross fight receipts,which • beats several •‘years ar the boiler mak-’:ng game. .!iliiPackey McFarland.Packer McFarland has finally got his fondest wish- He has been matched for. a fight with Tommy Murphy: They will go six rounds at the National Athletic club1, Philadelphia. No vember IS.Packey comes pretty near being a hoy wonder in pugilism. Ho celebrated his twentieth birthday anniversary a few days ago. He is hankering for a finish fight with Battling Nelson for the lightweight championship. after his battle with / Murphy, which be confidently expects to win. Imt Harry Gilmore, his mzager. says Packer is too yonr.g for a finish fight and will be allowed to go twenty-five rounds, at the oUtilde, with the “Battier.” .McFarland tells an interesting little story of how he came to be a fighter.He started to work in ft boiler factory
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Logansport Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 12, 1908
Page 6
Full Page
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