Hide Article Text (OCR)
! PACKY INSISTS HE WONT BE IN RING AFTER THIS YEARChicago, Nov. 11—The recent en-no up cement oi Packer McFarland that he will quit the- fight game at the close of the present year has not been taken, seriously by all who know him. Pack-ey 13 right in his prime—only 24 years old. anil during the years that he has been in the game he has cleaned up 5200,000. Now he says he will go into J business; but some of his friends are of opinion that unless he makes skads of money at business the lure of the ring will be too great for him to resist and he will return.Packey McFarland.Packey, however, insists that he will quit ior good. “I realize that few fighters over have retired from the I ring when they were only 24 years I old,” he says, ‘Tut I have two good { reasons for quitting. One of them is j the fact that I have all the money } 1 need, and the other, which also ia I an important one, is that 1 am tired of the training grind incidental to fighting. It means hard work every day, work with the gymnasium apparatus, punching bag and boxing half a desen rounds with a sparring partner. That isn't the worst of it. The boxer who must make a required notch on the scales must diet and at times even is not allowed to drink water, which is about the hardest thing of all to leave alone,“I intend to quit the ring at the end of the year, but there are three fights that I would like to have be-j fore I step out I would like to meet Ad Wolgast, but I’m afraid there never will be a chance for us to get into the same ring. I also would like another crack at Jack Britton, who seems to be doing pretty well in the east right now, aud last, but not least, to take a whirl at Battling Nelson. Then I’d be perfectly content to let the other fellows have the field. It | makes no difference to me whether these fights are staged, for I have made up my mind to retire, regardless of future matches.”
Newspaper Details
Waterloo Times Tribune
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, Nov 12, 1912
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
John H.
IL, USA 15 Jan 2018
Other Publications Near Waterloo, Iowa
Iowa State Reporter
Waterloo Daily Reporter
Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo Courier
Illustrated Atlas of Black Hawk County Iowa
