The San Francisco call., 1910-11-12
WOLGAST, THE FANS
ARE FROM MISSOURI
Temperamental Champion Must Show a
Bit or Become a Wallflower
By WILLIAM ]. sLATTERY

Although Tom Jones, manage for
Ad Wolgast, the lightweight cham
pion. is shouting as hard as he can
shout that his charge will not think
of boxing anybody before February,
Promoter Louis Blot is shouting just as
hard that Wolgast and Nelson will so
on before his club next month. But in
the event that anything happens TO the
lightweight champion. Blot will be
ready to put on Antoine la Grave and
Packey Mcfarland.
Wolgast is a headstrong youth, a
hard one to manage, according to all
accounts. For a champion he has come
in for less notoriety and earned less
money than any other lightweight or
even feather weight who ever wore the
crown. Some of the followers of the
game even go so far as to blame Jones
for the unpopularity of the young
scrapper.
Be this as it may. Wolgast wired
Blot two weeks ago, accepting his
terms of guarantee of $500. with a
privilege of 40 per cent to box Nelson
for the lightweight championship of
the world here on the afternoon of De-
cember "a. Blot, who had already made
arrangements with Nelson, began
congratulating himself, for he thought
the matter closed until yesterday, when
he read what Jones had TO say about
it.
As a matter of fact, nobody seems to
know the extent of Wolgast's recent
injuries. It is known, or at least it
was announced, that the champion in
jured his right arm twice within
period of six months, the last time
about two months ago. All sorts of
contradictory reports have been sent
over the country have begun TO accept
them all with the proverbial grain Of
salt.
Sam Fitzpatrick, La Graves manager.
is in receipt of fat offer to take, the
hutchertown boy back to Kansas City
and go 10 rounds with Packey Nc
Farland early next month. While this
offer looks very good to Sam. still he
would rather start La Grave in San
Francisco again, provided that he can
find some promoter who will put
him on
Fitz is willing to send La Grave
against Mcfarland over the 20 round
route at 135 pounds at 3 or S o'clock.
Sam has about given up all hope Of
developing La Grave into a 1873 pound
man. Tony is a bit too big for the
real lightweight division. He's about
on a par with Mcfarland in this re-
spect, and this is one of the reasons
why the match would be very at
tractive as well as very important
one.
If Blot falls down on Nelson and
Wolgast, it is very likely that he will
sign La Grave and Mcfarland for, the
date proposed for the other contest
Mcfarland has not given his consent
as yet, but the chances are that he
will gladly take flyer at La Grave in
the belief that the local lad is one Of
those upstairs whom he hears about
so often.
Unless something happens to his
train, owen Moran will arrive tomor
row night to start training for his
bout with Nelson at Blot's arena, two
weeks from this afternoon.
AS usual, Moran will do his training
over at Billy Shannon's San Rafael
retreat and he will be trained by Tiv
Kreling, who invariably looks after
all of Charley Harvey's stable of box
ers when they show on the Pacific
coast. Harvey probably will join the
Moran camp a week bafore the date
of the contest and he probably will bet
heavily on his man.
Nelson will. return from Calstoga to-
morrow and resume his training at
Millett's, near Colma- The Battler was
not in the best shape the night he