Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15
WELSH HOT AFTER WOLCAST
Welshman from Wales Seeks Light
weight Toga in Earnest.
"ABEYo WOULD TAKE A REST
SIM Franciscan Ready to Offer mn
AIIurinR Parse 20 BrinE Two
Together and Fight WOuId
Attract Many.

NEW YORK, May I'LL is Indeed fact
that news travels fast. 1t was not long ago
that little Ad Wogast, the Milwaukee
boxer who prides himself on being the
worlds champion lightweight stated that
he was not going to fight until he had
good long rest. Wolgast may be a good
little fighter, according TO Freddie Welsh
OF Pontypridd, Wales. but there is one bet
ter Very modestly it Is added that the
best lightweight-is this same Welsh.
Freddie. in some way or other, got wind
or the news that Wogast means to stay out
OF the ring for a while. But the Milwaukee
man will not be allowed to follow out his
plan il Welsh has anything TO say in the
matter The truth OF II is that Welsh con-
templates cancelling his fight with Packey
Mcfarland, scheduled to be fought in Lon
don soon. and instead will come to this
country in an endeavor to get a match with
the lightweight champion. over in the old
world Freddie has some reputation as nit
wielder. An odd fact about him is that he
is vegetarian. He claims this helped him
TO win the English lightweight champion
ship which he now holds.
Now. Welsh is not the only person inter-
ested in the match. Out on the Pacific
coast there is a man who would like very
much to see these two little light weights
placed together in a roped and squared
arena. And he is no other than sid Hester
the San Francisco fight promoter. Accord.
ing to word received here in local pugilstic
circles, Hester is so anxious TO match up
the two lightwelghts that he has offered a
purse of $4,000 along with several minor
offers. Welsh Is only too anxious to como
here again to show American fight fans
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that all the news" his press agent has sent
out about his championship prowess is
really true.
Wanted 10 Meet Nelson.
When tho light-haired Dane. Battling
Nelson| known to ring followers as the
former champion" held the title, Welsh
wanted to come TO this country to meet
Nelson for the worlds championship. Nell
son, however never took Welsh seriously
and a match was not arranged. Thos who
have seen both men in action declare that
Welsh was capable opponent and that he
was no mean fighter. So now Welsh says
he will give wolgast the chance to turn
him down.
Whether wolgast will consider the allur-
Ing purse Hester is said to have offered
Is not known. Wogast not long ago said
that he wishes to take things easy for
awhile, now that he has become the cham
picn. AID is spending his time doing vaude-
Vile stunts out west-telllng his audiences
how he put one over on the Battler. And
not sighting the latter, 1t might be well
TO state that Oscar Matthew Battling
Nelson is spending his time in the same
way-only he tells those assembled "iust
how it happened"
Reports from Che west also stat thai
Eirce Wolgast has become champion he
means TO do a little debating as we'll as
the others. Recently he was quoted a.
saying that he would rot so into the rims
unless $4,000 purse hung up. liz
Is said to have stated that for this amour
he would fight anyone who wishes to sigr
up with him for a -five-rcund con
test. However. II is thought that Ad viii
think twice before he passes by that offel
OF Hester's.
IL these two men could be matched 1t Il
safe to state that the battle would draw
big crowd. Hester said that he woult
Stage It week or so before or after tn,
big fight at Emeryvile AT that tim,
there will be record breaking crowd t
draw from. There will be thousands O
t-of-town persons in San Francisco Il
this time who would not miss the oppor
tunty OF witnessing a title Lightweight
championship bout, and 1t is thought tina
the gate receipts would be as large, II no
larger, than those which have character
lied previous fights in the lightweight divi
sion Many fans declare that the BATH
would draw even a greater crowd than dl,
the Nelson-Gans battle.