WOLGAST'S RECENT FORM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 7

WOLGAST'S RECENT FORM.

WANTS TO BE CIIAMPION,IN CLASSES. i ;:';''Battiing".' Nolson :has ' a; great ; eyeto' 'finance,; andVh"as ! .been .accused . of . posfe: {poning.fights., with, dangerqiis men; while.' ■;piling. up ,the; dollars; in; mq're;; convenient contests,, fthdi byiirqeans- of stage,,engage, : ments.;; In .somqi short ; cqnte?ts ilafclj.' he '■had jwt: shown up ;very;favourably, bpt :.4w.;;Bte^rtli'' ; .and, he ..promised-, woulc} ;be all'right-over /a Uong .course.', ; But his : attempt over the long courge' has: fpiled against. .Wqlgast.H.houghiit clear that : '.'Battling";. f>(e|iqn iuatle: a'-, good.,'fight ;to . the fqrtjeth round; i showing grent - grit. and .capacity. for,' taking punishment. .:' ■. '. Mis cqnquqror, \YqlgasL. was recently :seqn '. to -'defeatjing. .powSt One.'. accqpnt:-states! ' "It'; \fentAtfie ' fiill twenty rounds, and Wrigast won in evory rountf,: He,;.is a : sturdy little",youngster .of, the ;Terry>:M'Goverh'..iro(ii:'-.and' rather. . light to be operating'.'in•'the 1133=pbiiiid 'c]4ss. , -:ge Bc'enjs.to. love fighting for.'fighti "Jfffs sake, howeYer, . and proudly declares ho ;is .going to win' cha'mpionshipsj namoly, the-.featl)er'' : ahd Ci'iil.; 'Wdlgp'st-gqeg' right, close. : to .his man :and..hammers ; ;away. in a,^:B'wivel-shouldere<j mannor.. .Hp can -uso :nny kiiLd .of a punch except- the 'usefvUi'right■ cross. .'He °au'Uppercut,...hook t r ahd' swing■/■ffitji" the :nght,.;hqt..lie ..cannot, poisq .'it; and send pcross.. at the - pojnt ,of 'th 6 chin. ■ He :i.Sva^; youngster Jfrhq.'cau lof;s 'of .rough.usage,:and. 1)0;is;absolutely, tireless. Ife conies; as ;nenir',tp'perpptual motion as anything:>l hare 1 seen" in the a hgliting/'human '■ since ' when Brooklyn Terry was,at.the'hfjgl)j:-of his famq./. ..San Francisco, like every, other : fight r cet|tre,. is quick to turn to new. idols, and now looks upon Wqlgast as the great-, ,qst ever seen .here." It is prophesied that he will lick. Nelson if they ever come together." Webhj the English. lightweight cham--1 piqri, . had been trying' unsuccessfully to get n match: with Nelson, : and will now probably bo. .af£er\ Wplgast.' An' English ; paper remarks: "'The Rattier',(Nelson) says he has .beep r/ffered his end Ifo.jißhtWolgast for the title'iin Oali-. forniii on Vebruarj' 12, and this really scorns to' be tme." ..The' saine authority incidentally refers .tb )i', reverse . sustained :j]dt.'Jpng 'agp by:.W°lgast, ; remarking: . lommv ;Murphy," who '.gay? : \Yolgast. a rare whipping'in Pittsburg ni few months hgn,.; will co .to California to try himself , with T-ew Powell, in view of a match :.wth; .Nelson or Wnlprast." ' : ; .In the boolts. Nelson's . weight is ploeed ,nt .1331h.. . at. ,118 to 1221b. The Dane is sft. ,7}in. in height, the German "iff. . tlin. ■