Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-15
FEATHERS ARE
WORKING HARD
WOLGAST AND WEEKS DOING
BUSINESS
BOTH APPROACHING THE STATE
OF PERFECT TRIM
Each Expects to VIII Saturday After
noon by the Knockout Route and
Profess to Be Ready for
Any Emergency

Baron Long yesterday signed up two
preliminaries for the Saturday card at
Vernon that ought to go well with the
classy main event which will bring
Freddie Weeks and Ad Wolgast to-
gether over the twenty-fiye-round
course. Young Dougherty and Kid
Murray will furnish some of the cur
tain-raising excitement by meeting in
a scheduled six-round mill, and Jack
O'Keefe and Kid O'Neil have signified
their willingness to go the same dis
tance.
This last bout is bound to be in
teresting, for whenever men above the
lightweight division collide something
is reasonably sure to drop. O'Neil and
O'Keefe are welterweights, and, ac-
cording to all reports, they are good
ones. 1t sounds like 81 duo of Erin's
favorire sons when their names are
mentioned, but somebody lied" in
O'NeiPs case, for he is a dusky son of
Ham and cannot trace his ancestry
anywhere near Ireland's shores.
At that, O'Neil Is said to possess the
true Hibernian spirit in fighting, for,
although he never has engaged in
professional scrap, he has whipped the
best the East Side could produce. Sew
eral well known fight fans are willing
to stand sponsor for his ability and he
will have a host of followers at ring
out of business.
Kid Murray and Young Dougherty
will scale around the 120-pound mark,
and both have been seen by the local
fans. The Kid has been helping Fred
Weeks get In shape, and, despite the
short notice, says he is in prime shape
to tackle Dougherty. The Milwaukee
hobo" has been working ever since he
hit town, so lack of time in which to
train does not bother him. The boys
are expected to put up q slashing bat
tie which will keep the spectators on
their feet roofing" for one or the
other.
Wolgast and Weeks went right ahead
with their training stunts yesterday
and busy scenes We're enacted at both
the South Side Athletic club and Area
dia. Plenty of boxing was on tap, and
the fans who were on hand got more
than their car fares worth of some
thing that bore a close resemblance to
real fighting.
Some way or other Wo1gast persuad-
| ed Young Togo to don the mitts with
| him, and the things that happened to
Tokio's favorite son were sin and a
| shame. Wolgast did everything but
put the brown boy out, and at the end
of three rounds Togo declared he was
| glad the show was over.
In addition to making a punching
scrapper took on his fellow townsman,
Dougherty, in a spirited three-round
bout, and the boys whaled away at
! each other every minute they were In
the ring. Wolgast had been on the
road in the morning but he was full
of life after lunch, and after his box
ing stunts tackled the big sand bag
for fifteen strenuous minutes. Some
fancy gymnastics followed this, and
when he stepped on the scales Ad was
but a scant pound overweight.
The same earnest plugging which
has marked every day of his stay at
Arcadia was recorded again by Weeks,
who scaled at a few ounces less than
| 122 when his work was done. The
miner was out on the road for over an
| hour in the morning, and in addition
| to five rough rounds with big Jack
| O'Keefe, he tackled Kid Murray in a
| trio of periods only little less fierce.
| Weeks claims to be ready for anything
that is shot at him by Wolgast, and is
touting his friends to bet that the east
erner will never weather the journey.