Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1917 — RITCHIE STILL IN THE RING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RITCHIE STILL IN THE RING

Former Lightweight Champion Training in California for “Comeback” as Welterweight. Although a year has-passed since Willie Ritchie boxed seriously, the former lightweight champion says he has not retired. Ritchie, indeed, declares he wants to fight again, and with that end in view has been training on the coast. Ritchie always was a first-class boy and his re-entry in ring doings would

be an interesting event. Of course, the lightweight class is out of the question. ‘Ritchie having outgrown it, but if the lesser bouts he proposes to engage in as a preliminary to his comeback prove him to be there still, lie will fight in the welterweight division and perhaps Ted Lewis wilt have one more rival at the legitimate welter scale to give him battle.

Willie Ritchie.