Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-21
LITTLE FELLOWS
START TO WORK
WOLCAST AND PlCAT0 IN HARD
TRAINING
BOTH ARRANGE EXTRAORDINARY
CARDS FOR TODAY
Milwaukee Whirlwlne Is Made Favor
tie Over Local Knockout Kid.
Fans Divided In Opinion
as to Result

The great battle that Jim Flynn and
Billy Papke put up Friday night at
McCarey's club has materially in
creased interest in the next big scrap
that will be staged at Maud Junction,
and probably will result In again pack
ing that pavilion when AID Golgast and
Frank Picato hook up for their ten
round engagement March go Interest
In this scrap has reached the betting
point already, and Wolgast has been
installed favorite at to b.
Probably there never has been
scrap staged locally that was sur
rounded by SO much uncertainty and
such a diversity of opinion among that
element which backs it's judgment with
money. The big bettors of the city
are divided very evenly in their opin-
ion regarding the result, and both boys
will go into the ring with strong back
ing. This indicates that the scrap mas
aroused an unusual interest.
Making a featherweight faVorite over
a lightweight, when both boys seem SO
evenly matched ia punching ability,
cleverness and speed, with only the
weight difference separating them in
the public mind is quite novel situa-
tion yet it probably is no more novel
than that a featherweight should be so
confident of his ability as to take on
a lightweight of the class Of Picato.
Both boys sought The match because
each realized 1t would be an attractive
card and that the receipts to be divided
between them would be sufficient to
justify the risk.
Wolgast hopes to boost himself into
such undeniable prominence by decis-
lively whipping Picato, something that
lightweights have been falling to do,
that he will be heralded as the next
logical candidate for the weatherweight
championship and he also hopes that
in the event he wins a decisive victory
over Picato he will create such strong
demand for an Attell-Wolgast cham
pionsnip scrap that the Hebrew champ
will be unable to pass the call by I'M
needed.
Pieato has more to lose than has VOL
CAST, as a decisive defeat by a feather
weight would weigh heavily against
his chances of getting profitable
matches in his own division In future
and would cost him dearly in the loss
of prestige as a near-champion ngnt-
weight Notwithstanding this risk,
Picato is going ahead with his work in
all confidence that he is too good and
too classy to be defeated by even such
a classy fighter as Wolgast. He sees
good money awaiting him in this scrap,
and hopes to so decisively whip the
Milwaukee boy that the victory Will
addto his prestige and boost him higher
up the ladder toward the champion
ship rung.
There is no room for doubt that the
scrap will be equally as interesting, ex-
citing and full of action as was the
Flynn-Papke fight. Both boys are nat
ural fighters, yet each is clever in a
way, more so than the average fighter,
and each is an able ring general. Both
are famous for their punches and the
ability to land them, having Knocked
out many opponents in recent months.
And both are as game as they make
them 1t will be a standup fight, and
is apt to end long before the scheduled
limit.
Wolgast will work this afternoon at
Verjce, using the open air gymnasium
near the lagoon, where Freddie Welsh,
Papke and other fighters have trained
in the past. He will start work shortly
after 8 o'clock this afternoon, and VIII
have Clarence English and Hobo
Dougherty as sparring partners. AID is
suffering with bruise on his left hand
and will not cut loose in his usual
fashion, but will furnish enough enter
tainment to satisfy those fans VINO VISIT
his training quarters.
Picato has established his training
quarters at Vernon, being the guest OF
Jack Doyle at the Southside Athletic
club, and for the first time in his career
will work In public. He will entertain
with an extended program this after
noon, beginning at 3 o'clock. Picato
is training for this fight with the de-
termination that he will go into the
ring in the best condition of his career,
realizing the Importance of winning,
and the fans will appreciate the oppor-
tunity of seeing the Knockout wonder
in training.