Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
LITTLE MAULERS
WORK OUT TODAY
WEEKS AND WOLGAST IN HARD
TRAINING
BOTH PUT ON EXTRA CARDS FOR
THIS AFTERNOON
Cripple Creek Scrapper Expects to Get
Back In Game by Defeating Mil
waukee Near-ChampIon-Both
Rank as Topnotchers

With all the details satisfactory ar
ranged and the articles of agreement
signed, Ad Wolgast and Freddie Weeks
have entered upon a strenuous course
of training for their 25-round battle
that is to be staged the night of Octo-
ber 20 at the Jeffries Athletic club in
Vernon. he fans are much pleased
with the consummation of this match,
as it will bring together two of the
best featherweights in the business,
and the winner will be sent after Abe
Attell or Owen Moran, IL either of these
topnotchers can be secured for them.
Wolgast is a great favorite here now,
since his decisive victory over Danny
Webster, because he showed the fans
that he has everything that a cham
pion must have-speed, cleverness, gen
eralShip and q terrific wallop in either
hand. He fights with the same pretty
precion, cool-headedness and effective
ness that made Johnny Coulon a local
favorite on his only appearance in the
local ring. And he has that same ter
rife punch that made Young Otto
famous.
He seems to be fighter with a
future, and unless his punch fades
away he will make things extremely in
teresting for boys like Moran and prob
ably Attell. Notwithstanding this fact,
however, Wolgast will meet a worthy
opponent in Weeks. The latter is a
waukee boy, game and a hard hitter,
and that he has ample class is proved
in his great ring record. Although he
has not done much since Attell knocked |
him out at Maud Junction he has won
what few fights he has had by the
knockout route. He has been working |
in the mines up in Nevada and is as
hard as piece of Steel and, in fact, |
in perfect health and condition for be- |
ginning training.
Perusal of Weeks record reveals that |
of the twenty-four fights he engaged in
up to last New Years, he scored thir-
teen knockouts and had lost only two
battles, one on foul and the other in
which Attell scored knockout. He is
a whirlwind fighter and has the punch
that wins the long end of purses in a
sudden and decisive manner. His de-
feat by Attell is no disgrace, as the
little Hebrew champion has it on
nearly every lightweight in the bust
ness and is considered invineible.
Weeks is five years older than VOL
gast, being 25 years old, but has not
been fighting more than a year longer
than the Milwaukee boy. Both boys
have proved their class and have de-
feated nearly all the best boys in their
division in the near-1championship
ranks. Wolgast is just beginning to
loom up as a championship possibility,
by reason of his recent notable vic
tories over good boys, while Weeks,
despite his remarkably good ding rec
ord, seemed to drop out of the running
after Attell defeated him last fall. Not
Weeks temporary retire
ment, both boys still rank at the top,
and there is no doubling that when
they meet there will be heap of fight
ing of the real, genuine type to interest
and excite the fans.
Wolgast is training at Jack Doyle's
club at Vernon and will put on an
extra of boxing this afternoon to en- 8
tertain the fans who go out to see him
in action. He is fortunate in having
such friends as Maurice Sayers, Young
George Herberts and Jim
Barry to work with, and he will be
able to get plenty of work out of them
this afternoon.
Weeks is working at Arcadia and has
a full corps of boxing partners. He is
getting down to hard work and will {
have several bouts on his card this
afternoon to entertain the fans who
ride out to the capital of the Santa
Anita ranch. The training quarters at
the Oakwood hotel, where Weeks works,
have been reopened and ample accom-
will be provided for all who
attend the workout,