Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-08
FEATHERS STOP
HARD TRAINING
WOLGAST AND BAKER FINISH
REAL WORK
BOTH READY FOR THEIR TUES
DAY NIGHT SCRAP
Milwaukee Boy VIII Not BE at Any
Disadvantage in Weight When He
Meets Clever Native Son at
Mccarey's Club
By JAY DAVIDSON


Unusually large crowds attended the
workouts yesterday of AID Wolgast at
Vernon and Harry Baker at Venice and
saw this pair of cracks go through the
final stunts of their training period in
preparation for their ten-round scrap
Tuesday night. More than a thousand
fans crowded into the Southside Ath-
letic club parklet to see Wolgast travel
ten rounds with Danny Webster, Fran
kie Sullivan and Herb White. and the
Milwaukee boy more than entertained
them with hise fast walloping.
Wolgast always entertains when he
is training because his style of milling,
even in workouts, is so catchy with
the fans that 1t Is worth going to see.
The fact that he was to work out with
his two-time opponent, Danny Web
ster, lent an additional interest to his
workout, as Webster put up such
good fight for ten rounds in both of
his ring engagements with Wolgast
that even a workout between the pair
is more realistic than the average nght
in the ring.
It became apparent yesterday that
Wolgast is not going to give away any
weight to Baker when they meet. de-
spite that the agreed poundage is to be
125 pounds at o'clock Tuesday after
noon. The Milwaukee boy is fast grow
ing a bit TOO heavy for the feather
division, as Baker already has done.
and when he weighed yesterday after
noon he tipped the beam at Us pounds.
This means that he will be only a
shade under the 125-pound mark when
weighng-in time rolls around, ana
Baker also will scale within an ounce
or two of that mark. This will send
them into the ring on practically an
even weight basis.
Baker Is showing all his old-time
speed and cleverness in training, and
the fans who have seen him work out
since he started training have formed
an idea that he will be entirely TOO
shifty for Wolgast to reach with any
serious result. The average fan holds
the opinion that Wolgast and his ag-
gressive style of milling Will earn the
decision, but that 1t is to be any walk
over for either is not to be considered
for a moment by the average fan.
Baker insists that he will whip VOL
CAST in a decisive manner and says that
he selected the Milwaukee boy as his
opponent because he desires to snow
the fans that he has improved greatly
since his last appearance here. He
also says that he assuredly would not
pick out an opponent whom he serious
" doubted his ability to whip, espe-
cially In his homecoming engagement
The card for tomorrow night will be
unusual in many ways, being one or
more class than ordinarily is found In
these popular price shows, and the TACT
that it is made up entirely of the little
fellows, all popular favorites with the
fans, lends an additional interest in the
bouts. Not one of the scrappers en-
gagged for tomorrow night will weigh
in excess of 100 pounds. Every one
of them is in the bantam or feather
division.
Although the main event naturally
overshadows all other bouts on the
card there is considerable discussion
among the fans regarding the proba-
bilities of the frankie Sullivan Young
Turner and other scraps The Sullivan
Turner affair gives promise of being
as much on the cyclonic order as does
the main event. Sullivan Is Immensely
popular because he is fighter one OF
the Wolgast type, and has not been
whipped since he began doing business
as a professional. Turner has only one
defeat to mar his record, and his quick
recovery and knockout of Hugo, after
being slammed to the floor and almost
counted out, indicates what sort of
fighter he happens to be. The other
preliminary bouts average above the
ordinary minor event offering, and the
card is regarded as being one of the
best that McCarey has arranged In a
long time.