The evening world., 1911-01-28

Bought a $500 automoblle.
Up to five years ago Wolgast had
tackled avery job on the calendar with
little success. He had been a boot
black. a farmer. a baker, a blacksmith.
a teamster. a c~igarmaker and even q
head cook In a lumber camp. lie vas
almost a full-fledged cigarmalter. hav-
ing but three months more OF appren-
ticeship to serve, when he threw up his
Job and took to the boxing game. All
this time wolgast. as he says himself.
lad been "a crazy bug. just wandering
around
Ploughs His Own Field.
To-day wolgast. only twenty-five. IS
well off. a prosperous farmer, owner
Of rich producing land which ne per-
sonaA,y manages n tills. He raises
corn. potatoes and wheat for the mar
ket and talks crops as glibly and In
diligently as he talks fight. In addl-
ton TO the products OF the ground. he
buys and sells live stock and conducts
money-making horse-tradinS bust
ness. Right now on the farm Up in
Cadillac. Mich. he has l2 head OF
sheep. 70 head OF hogs. 81 mich cows
and 81 horses. not to mention hundreds
OF chickens. turkeys n geese.
I'D rather be up on the farm than
any place that I know Of" said the lit
tie fighter to-day. II can have more fun
there than anywhere else. and when
ever I am tired travelling and fighting.
I go back and rest up farming.
"Yes, | get real rest behind the
t-.-A - \ lAAt. - .nttItn1 tptar-
fere with that part OF my life. ! am
planning now to have six or seveI
fights in February and March. so tina.
I'll get back to the farm in time to do
the ploughins.
Likes His Automobile.
'"Yes. / do It all myself because I'm
theAonly real farmer In the family even
~ there are a lot Of us. get q lot o,
fun out 'of my automobile. too. after !
finish my work around TIE farm.
Sure. I run the car myself he said.
It's a beauty. too. seventy h~-rgo-power
and she can so some or those roads
up hone.~
wolgast is the fourth child ina big
family of ten. all alive and healthy.
Both his parents are living, too. He has
three sisters younger than himself and
two kid brothers. TIE baby OF the
nouse IS only eight years old.
Wolgast never had much schooling.
lie sad he went to the eighth grade
but he Will not permit the other young
stsrs to suffer from lack OF proper edu-
cation.
IT want my young brothers and sis
,ers 10 get a good start In life and III
spend ali the money I can earn TO give
It. 70 them" he said.
Bought Girls a Piano.
IT have bought the girls a plano FOR
500 and they're all takins-lessons I'm
a bug on music, pnt never eou'u pay
anything myself" .
Wolgast is a remarkably sharp little
fellow. quick witted and brainy. He
has plcked up n lot OF worldly now
edge in his travels. II II wasn't FOR a
slightly nattened nose. he might be
picked out for anything but a hshter'
He IL OF swarthy complexion, square
iswed and thick necked. He wears q
sixteen-lnch collar, remarkable TOT q
Of his s-ze' lie ~ ciean,
iimbed, we'll and compactly built. stu
n little fellow all over, being only o rect
Inches tall. He isn't anywhere near as
hiH AS SOME ol ~ 'O 49,
weights. Even Knockout Brown, whom
he is TO fight at Jack o'Brlen's Ameri'
can A, C. OF Philadelphia on Feb, 3
looks at least ten pounds bigger than
Woigast. ..
RIDnt now Wolgast doesn't weigh
more than 100 pounds. and no offers II
bet he can fight at 126 within six days
He sal ? only weighed i23 when he
four Nelson the first time, and
watched in for the second battle with
BAT with all his fight clothes. shoes.
gloves, and even an undersh'rt and
bathrobe. and didn't move the beam al
1888 pounds.
Has Started Training.
wolgast has Just started training 70,
his Eastern campaign on a farm al
Fernswood, a suburb OF Philadelphia
He arrived there yesterday with two
trunks big enough to carry the ward
robe OF a prlma donna. There Isn't any
chance that Wolgast Will ever lose
either OF them, They are heavily band
ed with steel. double locked. and on al
four sides IL emblazoned In big white
bold letters:
Ad Wo!aast, Lightweight