Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-22
WOLGAST TAKES
NO UNDUE RISKS
DOES NOT HOLD WEBSTER
700 CHEAPLY
WILL TRAIN RIGHT UP TO DAY
OF THE BATTLE
Realizes Great Undertaking He Has
Assumed and Will Work Faithfully
to BE Able to Deliver the
Goods in Both Bouts
RACING
BY JAY DAVIDSON

BY JAY DAVIDSON
1t may be easy enough for Ad VOL
CAST to say that he expects to have an
easy time of it when he hooks up with
Danny Webster for the second time
tomorrow night, but his actions most
assuredly give the fans reasonable ex-
cuse for believing that the crack little
whirlwind fighter hardly believes down
in his heart that he will have any
thing like cakewalk in the ten rounds
assigned him in which to whip Webster
again. The fact that he is training
harder right now than he ever trained
before and that he will work right up
to the day of the scrap seems to indi-
cate that he does not hold Webster as
an easy mark.
The fans who witnessed the previous
battle between this pair shake their
heads doubtfully when the friends of
Wolgast are celebrating upon the ease
with which the Milwaukee boy is ex-
pected to walk away with the capital
prize. Webster is so confident, which
indicates that his defeat by Wolgast at
Vernon has not taken the heart out
of him, and is showing in such i'm
proved form in his workouts that he
will have many supporters when the
gong sends him out to redeem his lost
laurels tomorrow night.
WolgaSt, of course, is one of the
claSsieSt featherWeightS now in the
harness and his offer to bet $1,000 on
the side for a twenty or twenty-five
round scrap with Attell or Driscol is
made in good faith, because he believes
he can trim either of them at the dis
tance. He realizes he is undertaking
a risky job in going up against pair
Of boys of the class Of Webster and
Little in three days and naturally is
working hard to get into condition for
carrying out the stunt to successful
issue. 1t means something to him to
decisiveIy defeat both boys in three
days and he wants to pick up this ad-
ditional prestige and change.
Attractive Tuesday Gard
Manager McCarey has another at
tractive card arranged for his Tuesday
night show, with WOlgaSt and Webster
as the feature event. These clever and
Walloping Scrappers are scheduled for
a ten-round session, and the fans. are
preparing to witness a whirlWind scrap
and a knockout victory for one of them.
There is i'll feeling between the boys,
natural, of course, because Webster al
ways has maintained that Wolgast
played in great luck in their previous
fight and because Wolgast has indi-
Gated that he expects to stop the local
boy before the scrap is half over. Web
ster will be in fine trim for this battle
and intends to be knocked out or knock
out Wolgast in a hurry.
The semi-windup and preliminaries
for Tuesday night also are attractive
cards. The Semi-Windup will be a six
round affair between Frank Nelson and
Dick Given. Nelson is a rough house
fighter and a game one, as he proved
when he knocked Jimmy Andrews at
the last McCarey show after the negro
had given him a fearful beating. Given
is his equal in size and weight and
fights along the same energetic lines, so
the bout should be q hummer while it
lasts, and a knockout seems certain.
Jack Redmond and the Hoosier Kid
will make a lot of fuss while they are
in the ring, and another knockout
seems inevitable in this bout. Red
mond is a fighting fool and hits like a
head-on collision. Hoosier Kid put
Montana Kid to sleep in less than two
rounds recently, and showed like a
conner in his only local appearance
when he put away his opponent in rag
time.
In addition to these bouts, three
others at four rounds each will be
staged, and the fans are assured of
plenty of fun and excitement and prob
ably will witness three or four knock
outs.
Jeff's Reopening Card
The fans are highly pleased at the
announcement that the Jeffries Athletic
club has resumed business at Vernon,
and will stage the reopening card next
Friday night. There is plenty of room
for both clubs in and about Los Ange-
les, one to stage the ten-round affairs
and the other to handle the Marathon
scrappers, and if the rival promoters
will
rivals and go ahead with their own
business and boost the game, instead
of fighting each other and clashing in
dates and putting each other into open
competition for matches, both will
prosper and the sport will receive the
loyal support of all the fans. The fans
are not interested in the differences, if
any, that may exist between the rivals,
but want to attend the fights and sup
port the game and for that reason they
are living in the hope that the two
clubs will get along harmoniously.
The reopening card at Vernon will be
the Ad Wolgast-Walter Little SCRAP at
twenty rounds, and the semi-windup
will be a fifteen-round battle between
the walloping frankie Sullivan of
Santa Anita, and Walter Fisher, the
San Berdoo towhead. A curtain-raiser
at ten rounds probably will be arrang-
ed today.
but in the main event and has selected
a tough job for his tryout Notwfth-
standing this fact, it remains true that
Little came to Los Angeles to get a
scrap with Wolgast, knowing proba bly
as much about the Milwaukee boy as
anybody on the coast knows, and fear
ing him none at all. Little has an ex-
cellent ring record in his brief career
and may be a surprise
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