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Packy McFarland, 9tock Yard* Lightweight.Packy McFarland of Chicago, known • throughout the pugilistic world as the stockyards champion, because of hia being tho idol of that section of tho western city, is rated by boxing ex* perts as the wizard of the ring, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. McFarland Is a fistic marvel. Now at the age of 24 years, he is accumulating a fortune rapidly and has set hia plans to make $100,000 In the next year. This is to be dune by ft com-' blnatlon of his brains and hands.McFarland has gone about his ring contests the same us a contractor assumes a contract. If the task can bo completed in three days tho brainy contractor realizes that It Is folly to waste six. and submit his machinery to unnecessary wear. It is the same with McFarland. If ho sees that a bout can bo ended In three rounds ho rarely fights ten. but If in trying to end th? bout quickly and decisively he feels ho la endangering his tools, which are his hnnds, why. ho simply wins by tho scientific route.It Is that element of uncertainty which has made McFarland the magnet to attract ring-goera. His scl-enco at times is bewildering and ardent followers of the gamo arc oft-times at a loss to follow his plan of attack and defense.McFarland has been boxing eight'years, has fought more than 100 battles. ranging from oue round to twenty-five, and In that time has never taken tho count. Ho started his career by knocking his opponents out in short order, winning his first six j contests In that decisive fashion, all being won Inside of six rounds. Ho I continued his knockout record In tho second, third and fourth year of his ring career, winning 27 out of «7 con-rests that decisive fashion.It then began to dawn on McFarland that a skilled mechanic would bo at loss without his tools, und he realized that ho must nurse his hands, not slug and try to knock a man s head ofT with each punch, but deliver his blows scientifically, block those of tho slugger and avoid punishment. Like all men who have studied real boxing. I ho soon discovered that It was far moro pleasant to give than receive.From that day McFarland has truly been the wizard of tho ring. He is proud of his defense and only dur- 1 lng the last year, when a New York | slugger reached him and blacked one I of his eyes. McFarland was soasham- | ed of tho discoloration that he passed 1 up a $1,000 six-round engagement. ; No man had ever blacked his eye be-fore, and it Is said he remained Indoors. away from his friends, until i tho discoloration had disappeared.CALLS PACKEY M’FARLAND RING WIZARD
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Bessemer Herald
Bessemer, Michigan, US
Sat, Nov 30, 1912
Page 21
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