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9 Mins.; Full Stage. The World’s champion heavyweight announcer, Loney Haskell, introduced the world’s champion lightweight pugilist, Freddie Welsh, to the Hammerstein audience Monday night. One gained his honors by talking and the other by fighting. Both showed how they did it that evening. The Boxing Commission would not permit a sparring exhibition, so Mr. Welsh went through his simpler methods of training as a stage display. These were interesting, including pulley and floor exercises, shadow and dummy boxing. Though a lightweight, Welsh is a slimly built young man, of fair appearance, and did neatly and nicely what little he could do under the limitations imposed. As a stage attraction he should have some value, for the championship, wrested by him from Willie Ritchie, holds much concern to fight fans. There’s no doubt, however, in a long distance or finish contest between Welsh and Haskell Loney could talk him to sleep.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.3, September 18, 1914