Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-29

night for Los Angeles. Feeling fine and
ready to win the lightweight champion
ship AID WOLGASA'
The foregoing message received last
night by Uncle Tom McCarey OF the
Pacific Athletic club from Ad Woigast
sets at rest all doubts as TO the time OF
his departure from his home at Ca
dfllac. Mich, where the telegram was
fled to the local promoter This morn
ing as the fans are porting over the
printed matter at the breakfast table
Wolgast and his manager, Tom Jones,
are speeding toward the Angel city TO
commence training for the July IL CON
test with Battling Nelson, the struggle
bv which Ad hopes and is confident
that he will obtain the 133-poun1
crown. Thus the fans will greet Vol
CAST either Thursday or Friday-prob-
ably on the former day. Nelson has
already sent word that he will be on
hand on July l. which means that both
training camps will be in action by SAL
urday. -,
When Wolgast arrives an effort will
be made to induce the Milwaukee
featherweight to consent to a long
distance go with the champion, in
which case the battle may be held at
Vernon. but the chances of securing the
agreement of the eastern boy are so
remote that 1t may be set down as al
most a surety that the bout will go
only the originally planned route-ten
rounds.
other Bouts Planned
While the local fans are eagerly
awaiting the arrival of Nelson and
Wolgast for their engagement next
month the gossips are busy with talk
of other cards for the same week.
Manager McCarey of the Pacific Ath-
letic club is aware Of the fact that dur
ing the seven-day period to be known
as Elks' week, when the fraternal
brethren will assemble from far and
wide to gather for their annual grand
lodge reunion, several thousand visitors
will be in this city, and that opportu-
nifty for staging at least three big bat
ties is too good to lose. Accordingly
plans are under way for additional at
fractions. and the popular demand for
a distance contest may lead Nc
Carey to stage a forty-tive round af-
fair at the Vernon arena, which now is
practically in the hands of the local
fight promoter.
After months of good cards of
smaller caliber the matching of the
two lightweight lads for a world s
championship battle has acted as a
stimulus to the game in the south.
Nelson and Wolgast alone will be a
big drawing card for this week of
celebration, when almost all Los An
geles will go aholidaying, but should
a match between two big men be ar
ranged for the Saturday afternoon fol-
lowing the already framed up Tuesday
affair the Vernon arena probably
would see a concourse that would make
the kline and porkers of the suburban
town and the other inhabitants stand
and stare and gaze.
cans Are Anxious
Every fight fan in the Angel city is
anxious to see at least three big pro-
grams of flstic events staged in the
week the Elks are here, and there is
little question that should each card
be of drawing caliber, McCarey would
have no difficulty in playing to crowded
houses at all three battles. Tuesday
and Thursday nights and Saturday
afternoon are the dates suggested, the
first two to be ten-round goes at Maud
and the third a long bout at Vernon
While it is known that the Pacific
Athletic club has for several days been
at work on cards which will prove of
satisfaction to the championship bugs,
nothing of a definite nature has yet
been accomplished. Fighters and their
mana gers are the most difficult per-
sons in the world to deal with Even
a cast-iron contract often fails in its
purpose of holding a pug to his agree
ments, and the latter-day money craze
has so permeated the members of the
fight brigade that they refuse to ap-
pear for a guarantee smaller than in
former days would have equaled the
entire lifetime savings of a champion.
However, the outlook is bright for
good matches for Elks' week. That
high class programs will be patti onized
to the limit is evidenced by the ex-
IRENE interest already manifested in
the Nelson Wolgast fight which still