Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-12
RATHER ALLEGES
LACK OF TRAINING
,,.-,er Lightweight champion I''is
Just How lie Lost Battle
To Ad Wolgast.

,-.rso, writes for the FIRST
bAi.,..- .,,rv Of his defeat for the light
TN. .,r,mpionship by Ad Wois'sI the pa,
Ne-fl' d. .onfdent he can came back
~. mtIIues follow -..,.. 80
iI-..-,-o. March IA continuation OF
- business and too little rest
goo IN. sb9ut my defeat by al Wolgnst
.,. I5ss of the worlds lghtwelght
ana "' -svr combination Of absolute
u"e divorce from al personal busi-
resi- ..,.s vii. / hope, put mo back in
h.fe .s,o. that will REGAIN the ute
sue" -,r with q demand on Woigast for
match. sincerely believe that
q i,.- -.tts him on washington birth
as flr from my pest IL tn'us"'
,.Is not eight better than ala on
.ste-roon I would throw up my
.'.', s. and forever retire as a ring factor.
So. ,.,iiave held WolEast too cheap
-.l.s.,-relt little fighter and fought
' ~. fbaf deserved to win. 1 do not
- T., 5stract from his honors, but In
w. ..-ffy can say that a. he had had
=. of5 Nelson 70 front OF him he never
IN have woathered that twenty-second
- some OF the best fight critics In
49,. sitting at the ringsIde agree
- his statement. Father Bin Naugh-
an OF them all. was tho FIRST man
usf November / had an offor 20 night
,-.l..ef J. was 500 poor CONDITION. hul
,.ri y.lgtad to meet him ln the ring. IL
t51k ms manager JoCk topill',"' Nv, w
t,l,rs hi areIo me out of the match. Theu
~. ,..-r,. 0u the road and 1 worked myself
W. Shame for tho bout But when /
+s-tsd training, weighing - pounds, !
az down to ne two days after my urNt
1901 1 vas compelled 70 lay on 70
$3.50 myself going stale and this
.1,lf tho steady thing all through the
...r d4t.4 First 70 dav ~ work. then
r.g.F and worry worry nll the time
..-b.1ad with this came business cares
Vr.h could not be deleglted TO any one
X. man can burn the candle az both ends
"a sIeeead My own faith ia my ability
q, al fO mems work was my undoiug ]
s.tsrded no prvatc affairs which in them
ssirfs should have demanded the entire
Inc of two men Now / am all through
wrh that work and for tho next two
,gttg An, going 90 get away from eve
srythIng that takes my mind from the
lfer his am going 10 Hegewisch 10
attend 90 my realty, and when il ls lu
-seb share that ] can forget IL FOR
rfue win pack of 10 my ranch a. O'lri,
H.. where the gang-plow and the rake
I'd he harrow viii b.. my friends FOR
.-1rfh The climate az O-Har b. ideal 20
trud fp ANY man. and I confidently cX-
rr.f hat msIfr OF "a month / VIII be
utirhng iE pounds and in shape to
stand W0ic8st on his head
There are preoedcnts for n return mach
vIft Woigast. I fought Cans and defeat
ID him for the title. Inside Of three
months even before Cans had fought am
other match. 7 gave him n return date
nd whipped him again papke defeat
U Kalafa for The middIcweight title
.HI then gave him another chance. This
limo KatrHol won. and be gave Pupke a
raurH date. but papk- could not turn
'Ha tHrk J.1rcs fought an DIS vice
Inns twice. So did Cans, Joe Walcott
YuIg C0rbeU and "a score of uther
champions ] expect WolElst viii DO the
ama as hr has supreme confidence I'm
Dos Own ability
An0M.. fact that looms up lu tho
Wa.eIsf battle is the fact that "a world s.
champion lost his titie without ever Doe.
irz faor.d % single time 'u the fight !
was lighting. standing up and the age
rrrss0r when Referee Eddie Smith
Stopped the battle. The moving pictures
viii show this fact and / want to say
that DO parallel iu the history Of the ring
can be- found for this inCidcnt-that L am
stl the Durable.