The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-05
WOLCAST PUT
 OWEN MORAN
 OUT IN I3TH
E1Some Battle for Fourth of July, Says American, As
 Admirers Cheer Him

San Francisco, July 5tAd Wolgast still is lightweight champion of the world Thirteen rounds were all that Owen Moran, the doughty little chal- lenger from the British Isles, lasted under the furious body punches of the Michigan Wildcat. The Briton's speed and cleverness availed little against Wolgast's bulldog fighting. Ads body blows slowly but surely weakened Moran. A hard right to the pit of the stomach in the first minutes fight ing of the thirteenth round, followed by two more crashing punches to the same place, with a left hook to the jaw as Owen was falling, dropped Moran to the boards, where Referee Welch tolled the full drone of the doleful decimal over him. July nev- CT was a lucky day for Britannia's s sons, anyway.
 From the time that the veteran an- nouncer. Billy .Jordan,s unleashed the boys with his famous Let Ter go!' to the instant that Moran doubled up and went down in the thirteenth round, the thousands of sweltering spectators in the sun-baked arena on Eighth street saw fighting that was as fierce as it was furious. Moran fought a grand battle and went dowD with colors flying. He repeatedly rocked Wolgast's head with vicious right hooks and at times his straight lefts and right crosses had the Michi- gan Wildcat bleeding like wounded boar. But like a cornered wildcat, Wolgast always met the assaults half way, tearing in and seeking the body most of the time, but occasionally ripping up his short, snappy upper cuts to the jaw.
 It was Ads terrible body smashes that worked Owens undoing. With head down Wolgast kept charging in, taking three stiff punches to the face in order to drive home one solid smash to the body. At first Moran bravely covered up the hurt of the body smashes. Soon, however, he couldn't hide the injuries, and winc- ed every time that Wolgast sunk his gloves to the body. Under Wolgast's wallops to the ribs and stomach, Mor- an gradually wilted. Still, to many, the Briton's downfall in the thirteenth round came as a bolt from the blue.
 The real trouble started in the tenth, round, though on points Moran had a shade the better of the round. Moran ripped in several hard blows to the body in that session and though he got more to the face in return, ring side experts saw plainly that Moran was hurt. Owen appeared to gain strength in the eleventh round and stood up well under Ads body battering. Wolgast scored on the body in the eleventh and just as the bell rang crashed in a. right to the jaw that broke several of Morans teeth Owen was shaky but smiling through his bloody lips when he went to his corner
 Came the fateful thirteenth. Vol gast rushed in with head down, the ferocity of his assault driving Moran into a neutral corner. There was maze of heaving shoulders, waving arms and bobbing heads. Suddenly Wolgast's right arm crashed to the pit of Morans stomach Owens arms dropped and he tried hard to cover up Again Ad damned his right to the body and drawing hack once more crashed in that deadly right to the stomach The last right to the body was followed by curling left hook to the jaw as Moran was sinking to the boards. Owen went down and the champion stood over him while the ref cree was sounding taps on one of the greatest lightweight battles in the his-. tory of the ring.
 It was a fight between two as even Iy matched men as ever met. Wolgast had four years the better in age His youth, coupled with the fact that Nor an at times had tendency to daily along the primrose path, undoubtedly played a prominent part in the out