Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
WOLGAST IS WILLING To
MEET PACKY NJ M'FARLAND
Lightweight Champ Will Allow a
Liberal Weight Advant-
age to Opponent

Prospects for a meeting between
Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast
and Packy Mcfarland appear brighter
than ever, if a letter received yester-
day by Hobo Dougherty is any wealth
erVane. In the scrawl to his old pal
the Dutch Demon declares he will meet
the stockyards boy in New Orleans
Labor day, provided Packy will make
1873 pounds two hours before ring time.
For this Ad expects to receive a cool
ten thousand bucks, quite a neat little
sum for anybody when figured at the
rate of five thousand round. The
southern city's limit is twenty acts.
Should Mcfarland accept these
ternk, Tommy Walsh will draw one
of the best cards of the year, for a
meeting between the two boys is a
plum all the coast promoters were at
tempting to knock off the tree before
the big noise from up Sacramento way.
Whether he can afford to slip the
champion so large a sum as Wolga5t
expects remains to be seen, for in his
tentative offers for the mill Tommy
was there with but $4,000 for both
ends, to be cut any way the fighters
wanted.
AS soon as Wolgast lands real
match Dougherty will leave Los An
forgotten the friend of his pork and
beans days. and has promised the
hobo that no matter where he fights
the name of Dougherty will appear
among those scheduled for a prelim-
mary.
Promoter Jim Coffroth has returned
to san Francisco after a short vaca-
ton at Santa Cruz and has lost no
in, fn
looks as if the Titian-haired promoter
is going to revive the professional sport
here, as he is on the trail of a couple
of boxers and he is likely to make a
match today. Coffroth is after owen
Moran, the English lightweight, and
Abe Attell, the featherWeight cham
pion, and it looks as if he will succeed
in getting the fighters to come to terms.
Charley Harvey, representative of
the English scrapper, is on the ground
and he is anxious to pit his man
against the California "phenom," but
there is a slight hitch over weights,
which may keep the boys apart.
The Englishman has grown a bit
heavy and the featherweight limit is
no longer a weight which he can
make At 1876 pounds the Britisher is
bear, and he would not care how
long the fight would go if he could
get the American into the ring at
this weight.
An enterprising young pug in the
east has attempted to steal some of
Ty Cobb's smoke. This youthful eX-
ponent of the boxing game calls him
self young Ty Cobb"
Harry Lewis, who was shown the
shortest route to Mars by Stanley
t. 10 a a c a
journey. He has issued a challenge
to the Michigan Lion. One dose of
knockout drops evidently wasn't
enough to satisfy the Quaker City
pugilist. -....
The new boxing pavilion that Phila-
delphia Jack O'Brien is having built
in his home city is said to be one of
the most up-to-date structures of its
kind in the country.
Sam Langford is picking up a little
easy money by doing turn at Ham
merstein's in New York City. Bob
Armstrong is his sparring partner.
Matty Mathews, once a very clever
mitt wielder, but who later went bit
dippy doing an Annette Kellerman at
Coney Island, has turned his talents
to managing. In future Matty will
look after the business interests of a
boy named Jack O'Neill of Phila-
deiphia Matty sends word that he'd
like to have ONeill meet any Of his
brother glove workers over the ten
round course.
Bat Nelson is to have coming out
party next December. The Durable
Dane is to meet Jack Redmond in Mil
waukee when the snow is flying. Red
mond is said to be very tough lad,
and his followers think that he will
give the battling one a nice, neat little
time of it when they hook up.
The Saturday Wieland team Is re-
quested to meet at the Pacific Electric
in time to catch the l;lo
o'clock car for Alhambra All MEM
bers are expected to be on hand.