The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-03
ADVISE WOLGAST
!. TO TAKE A REST

New York, March $50 Ad VOL
CAST, new lightweight champion, is go
ing to take a long rest, says Walter
st. Denis. There you have brilliant
idea right from the fermenting and
fomenting brain of Tom Jones' mana
ger. A rest is just what the new
champion needs-he must rest until
Owen Morgan and Tommy Murphy,
those two better lightweights, leave
Frisco. For each has made him look
sick in a ten and a six round bout.
and there was every indication that
if the bouts had been set for forty
five in stead of six rounds, Wolgast
would have been a candidate for a
long term in a hospital.
The advent of this new champion is
one of the greatest Illustrations of
what luck will do in this world. Here
lis third-rater with punch that has
no sting. a defense that is funny, an
attack that makes you laugh, and yet
he is the champion of the United
States.
Do you recollect when he came to
the National Sporting club to box
Owen Moran just about two years
ago? Harry Baker, the clever jabber.
had gone from New York to Milwau-
kee and there had failed to penetrate
the awkward and covered defense of
the little fellow. Wolgast got the
decision. That made him known a
little in New York.
Couldn't Fight a Lick.
He was sent for to meet Moran. He
came, a little fellow who knew nothing
about boxing or fighting He had a
crouch and covered his head in such, a
way that it was heard to hit him.
Moran, out of condition danced around
him for three rounds. He looked like
some kind of bug all wound around
with arms. Moran couldn't solve him.
He didn't fight, but merely stood
away waiting to be attacked.
Finally. Owen figured him out A
short right uppercut That was the
blow He landed two through that
funny defense of Wolgasts, and the
Milwaukee curiosity Strengthened up.
After that he was easy. Moran bang
ed him about the ring and made him
look foolish. Had Moran punch he
would have dropped the lightweight
champion for ten seconds. But Owen
was not right that night-he had
plenty of paunch but no punch
Then you know he later went to
Boston for twelve rounds with Matte
Baldwin. That great little fighter
didn't take Wolgast very seriously.
| He didn't train much, but he went
through the twelve rounds and ought
to have been given the decision. How
ever, they gave one of those Boston
decisions draw
|
On Sept /. Wolgast, who was then
under the guidance of Tom Jones, the
man who made a reputation and
money out of "Bill' Papke, was
matched with Tommy Murphy in
Pittsburg Wolgast had been imbued
with some of Tom Jones confidence.
He would knock Murphy's head off
in a punch You know, he asked to
be introduced to Tommy before the
fight, and he was conducted to Tom
Imy's dressing room, where he acted
like boor, trying to frighten the
Harlem boy.
Once In the ring he started like a
young cyclone. You See they had be-
, gun to call him the Michigan Wild
cat" and he wanted to live up to the
name He rushed Tommy, swinging
like a windmill. And Tommy met him
with those hard left and right hooks.
Every time Wolgast plunged he pluNg-
ed into hook He was fighting just
the kind of fight that Murphy liked,
and 1t was the easiest thing In the
world to let him run into those punch
tess wolgast didn't have sense enough
, to change his tactics, but he was
tough enough to take what Tommy
handed to him.
Toward the end he became so In
! furiated that he butted Murphy and
/ hit him low When the fight was over
Eevery man at the ringside said MUIR
phy was a winner by a mile The
Ichief OF police was 50 angry at VOL