Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
WOLGAST LANDS
HERE FOR FIGHT
MILWAUKEE BOY AND HIS
MANAGER ARRIVE
AID AND JONES EXPECT TO DE-
FEAT BATTLING NELSON
Brewer Featherweight Seems to Be In
First-cIass Trim for Entering
Hard Training for Battle
of July IA
BASEBALL
ny A. r. DUNNING

providing Battling Nelson will
make a real fight of it, there will be a
new lightweight champion of the world
when the morning of July IA arrives
was Ad Wolgast's opening shot in the
Nelson Wolgast controversy which was
launched formally in this city yester-
day with the arrival of the Milwaukee
boy at o'clock last night, ready to
enter training for the contest which he
hopes and seems to thoroughly believe
will result in the enthronement OF
new king Of the 133-pound division.
Wolgast and his manager, Tom
Jones, hoped off the train and made
the rounds soon after the dust of travel
had been swept away, welcoming their
old friends, and then whirling away
to Venice to pass the remainder of the
night. Wolgast will train at the sea-
side town and today he will locate in
his old quarters, ready to start in on
the long road which comes to an END
only the day before the struggle.
A bright quick response to inquiries
as to his condition, a note of eagerness
when speaking of the probable outcome
of the ten-round struggle which Will be
McCarey's first offering of Elks' week,
and that straight, clear, refreshed look
of an athlete give every evidence that
ADS eastern announcements of splen-
did condition and vigorous health were
not mere press agent fancies. To the
casual and even the keen observer,
Ad looks to be in rare shape. He has
regained all his aggressiveness of man.
ner, which he lost somewhat during
his illness in Los Angeles prior to the
fight with George Memsic, and the pre-
dictions that it will be a new Wolgast
who faces the Battler seem about to
become true.
"Ad viii Win" Says Jones
"Ad is certainly going to win this
fight in handy fashion," is the state
mcnt Tom Jones gives out. THE
public and his friends will see a diff
ferent boy this time than the sick lad
who fought against my advice the
last time out in this city. He has
won his eastern engagements, with the
possible exception of the draw with
Tommy O'Toole, in which, If any
thing, Ad had a shade. He has been
taking the best of care of himself, and
after a fortnight of training you viii
see that Ad will put up whirlwind go.
Just say for me that Ad is right, and
he wants the support of his friends"
When the Milwaukee featherweight
takes up his quarters at Venice there
will be a goodly attendance at every
afternoon workout, for the interest dis
played in this bout is so keen that ii
will draw the fans to the two camps
to compare notes for purposes of de-
Gliding the side of the argument they
will take as far as wagering goes. That
Ad has a strong following is not to be
denied. On the other hand, there IS,
as always when a champion Is embat-
tied, a large representation of that
species of mitt enthusiasts which al
ways trails after the titleholder until
he is beaten. No bout staged at Maud
in many a month has aroused so much
discussion pro and con as has the
Wolgast- Nelson affair. The fact that
the ten-round distance is hardly suited
to the Battlers taste and methods is
weighing with the bettors, and Ads
speed and cleverness are also to be
reckoned.
The Battler will be here some time
the first of next week. He will work
at Doye's, and when the two camps
get a-going there will be plenty to
amuse all the followers of the siX-ounce
game. That McCarey has agreed to
give the men a guarantee of $1,000 for
their share of the proceeds shows that
the card is one which will draw tre-
mendously. 1t is a thoroughly popular
program, and the lovers Of both slug
ging and boxing are due to see an
equitable mixture of both sides in this
session.