The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-27
B|G F|ST|C SHOW
 FOR FRIDAY NIGHT Wolgast-BrOwn Fight Stirs
 Up Interest BROWN SHOWS FORM Johnson Can Only Avoid Fighting Langford By Making Unrea-
 sonable and Ridiculous
 Conditions
BROWN SHOWS FORM
By W. B. (BAT) MAsTERsoN

| New York, N. Y, February 26-(Spe
 ciaD.-The next big fistic entertain | ment at the National Sporting clut
 will take place on Friday night, Marcl
 8. On this occasion Ad Wolgast, thu | lightweight champion of the world, ant
 Knockout Brown. the local celebrity
 will meet in the main event. There
 is, perhaps more interest being mani
 fested in this contest than in any that has taken place in New York in long l time.
 The New York papers have played ur
 this Knockout Brown person to such
 an extent lately, that thousands of
 boxing enthusiasts In the city have been led to believe that he Is virtually
 unbeatable. This, as might be expect | ed, has created a tremendous amour,
 of interest in the Wolgast- Brown con
 test So well have the New York pa
 pers done the work in behalf of Brown
 that he'll likely be an even money
 choice when he hooks up with the champion.
 That Brown is a real good, willing
 scrapper cannot be denied. put he has
 lot to learn about the game. What l he lacks in science and cleverness, however, he fully makes up in cour- | age and determination. And these arc the qualities that have made him such | a pronounced fayorite in local sporting | circles
 1 He demonstrated when he met Vol gast in Philadelphia that he was Aol afraid of title. The fact that Wofgas, was the champion made no difference l to Knockout. He just sailed in and fought as if he were meeting fighter | of ordinary calibre.
 1 He did the same the other night at Madison Athletic club when he went against One Round Hogan. Albeit the latter was not a champion, he never l sported a name that would naturally tend to create many misgivings in a fighter with a heart like that the Knockout boy possesses. He took a good grueling from Hogan without
 wilting and succeeded by sheer cour- age and determination to break even with the Californian. Brown is the
 only one among the local bunch of lightweights who would have with stood the Californians onslaught with out showing the canary. He is not a quicker nor does he fall to do his best | under the most difficult circdm- stances.
 Wolgast may beat Brown Friday n1ght-and l, Tor one, believe he will but 1t will not be for the want of courage on the part of the local man | should he go down to defeat. Mcintosh is no piker when it comes to offering purses and the proaA hili- ties are that the iducement he'll offer for the Johnson-Langford battle, vii: or should at least. make Johnson think twice before turning it down unless l he's afraid. That Langford will &C., cept any reasonable terms that may be offered goes without saying. He thinks | he can win. And I might add that there are quite a number of others in | this country who think as he does. | The only way that Johnson can avoid l fighting Langford is to impose a lot l of unreasonable and ridiculous condi
 tions that would make the match i'm possible. And If he does that he will | hardly escape the charge of being
 afraid of his man. Mcintosh, so I am
 informed, Is prepared to guarantee a
 purse or give the fighters certain per
 centage of the gate receipts.
 l The battle, If 1t takes place in the
 Mcintosh arena in London. will draw a | tremendous crowd-without doubt the
 biggest crowd that ever attended q
 prize fight.