Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-08

DCGlI NdI CLul I'll Ills h0l&lIONs
Memsic surprised his friends by out
fighting and outboxing Wolgast in the
first five rounds, holding him even IN
the sixth and seventh and then COM
ing up strong enough to fight to an
even break in the final round, after
weathering the storm that broke in the
ninth round. He showed all his old
time speed, cleverDess, generalshlp and
punching ability in the first five
rounds and those who were living IN
dread of the breakdown that was eX-
pected to come were delighted at ms
showing of old-time stamina up to the
last half of the ninth round. 1t seemed
like the old Jimmy Burns hghtlhg
again and surprised exclamatlons were
heard on all sides.
He carefully planned his battle anu
fought a cool-headed battle to the
ninth. His cleverness enabled him 10
block or avoid many savage and Dan
eerous leads that Wolgast sent his way
and he was quick enough with Ieet
and hands to counter anything tHat
landed from the enemy's camp. he
was winning fairly easily IN tne hrst
half of the ninth until he and Wolgast
started to break out of clinch. Here
he made the mistake of dropping his
Guard as he stepped backward ana
NVoteast was on him like tiger with
a short-arm left hook to the point Oh
the chin. This staggered Memslc PACK
ward and Wolgast rushed in with an
other hook to the same place, but II
was bit short and only landed light
". otherwise Wolgast probably Woulo
have scored a knockout.
Memsic Receivers Quickly
These two blows weakened Memslc
hui
knew enough to protect hlmselI anu
stalled out the remaining seconds OF
the round. He sustained severe pun
ishment in these few seconds, however
and went unsteadily to his corner he
recovered quickly, to the surprise OF All
who had been expecting bloWup pc
fore the final round, and went INTO IIe
tenth round strong and determines
upon making a winning nnsh' Nol.
east realized his advantage and went
right after him in this last round, put
Memsic met him half way and sent
hack as good as came his way. Nhel
the gong sounded to end the fight both
were going at a fast pace and were
lighting effectively.
proyed his chances in every round aIter
The seventh until the last, but he coulu
not have overcome the lead taken py
Mensic without the aid of those two
lunches in the last half of the nlhtn'
1t was plain to all that Memslc was
weakening slightly in the eighth put
his ouiclx recovery in the tenth proved
that he would have been able to go
ahead and finish strong enough to take
the decision had he not run into those
terrific wallops. He showed up strong
er at infighting than did Wolgast' ana
clearly outfought and outboXed HIM at
long range. Wolgast claims that Mem
in, tho CiZyfh round and
exhibited the cup which he wore and
which was dented slightly Yet there
was no dirty fighting to be noted, both
bows putting up clean bill IN every
round. although fighting saNagely all
the way. 1t was great hght ana d
pretty exhibition, and the fans ire
uuentlv voiced their delight by cheers,
hand-claps and yells.
The battle in detail is given round by
round as follows:
Shows OId-Time Punch
The first round started with Memsic
leading and landing heavily to the
wind and repeating in a clinch. VOL
CAST came back with a hard right to
The head, and at close quarters they
hooked rights to the head, with Memsic
showing his old-time punch. They
mixed again in the center OF the ring,
and both sIugged with rights to the
head. Memsic played his left to face
and Ad turned Memsic half way round
with hook to the jaw.
Memsic rushed in and uppercut with
right to wind at the start of the sec
ond round, and they clinched and
slugged at close quarters. Breaking
away they slugged at long range, VOL
CAST showing his whirlwind style OF
lighting and counting effectively. Mem
sic swung a right uppercut to the jaw
that Jared Ad, who countered with a
left to the jaw. Memsc almost doubled
Wolgast with right swing to the wind
and followed with right to the head
Wolgast sidestepped a swing and
hooked his left to the jaw. Both swung
wildly and landed hard lefts to jaw.
After considerable sparring at the
start of the third they stuck short arm
hooks to the jaw and went into a
clinch. Memsic hooked his right to the
head and uppercut with right. At close
quarters, Memsic hooked hard left Il
the jaw and Wolgast stuck left to face
Memsic jolted Ad twice with left hook,
to the jaw and followed it with sting,
ing rights and lefts to head and wine
that clearly had Ad in distress.
Wolgast began the fourth with lef
hook to the jaw and Memsic coun
tered hard with right to wind. They
locked in clinch and fought with up
percuts to face, Wolgast bringnl
claret from Memsics mouth. Boil
swung hard to jaw with lefts and VOL
gast hooked hard left to jaw. Memsi'