Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-02-15
spoR1lne NOTES.

Pal Moore and Bert Kcyes will meet
at New York Friday night in a ten-
round bout
The American club of Philadelphia
which staged the all-star bouts III
which Ad Wolgast met Knockout
Brown, states that money was lost on
the show. The gross gate recelpts
we're $1i,200.
This Young Ahearn, whom Augusta
fans almost saw, is creating troupie
among the New York boxers and eVi-
IDENTIFY will bear watching. lie mas
yet to lose a contest and seems to m
prove with every match. HIS back-
ers are willing to send him against
Packoy Mcfarland and have nice
sum to wager on the result OF meet
ing.
A New York referee comes out with
the announcement that no more KID
uer walioping will be allowed in the
Fairmont Athletic Club. He declares
this punch is thoroughly unsports-
fnanlike and should have no more
place in bouts than have the blows
which now mean disqualification. 1t
is rumored that other New York clubs
soon will follow the Fairmont's lead.
Another long step in the direction of
clean pugilism.
Automobilists have been augmented
hy the addition of Mr.. Valentine
Braun. who occupied considerable
newspaper space last THURSDAY even
ing under the name of Knockout
Braun. X. O. Il. is left ft-handed and he
has his machine built to steer with
the terrible south h-paW. Now that he
has couluered Ad Wolgast and got in
Ia the limelight of a. possible cham
pionship X. O. refuses to allow the
lightweight title holder to have thing
on him. Wolgast owns a 90-hofSe
power machine and Braun comes
through with one Of much the same
speed.
That contract which places Al
Kaufman in the hands of Barney Ger
ard for term of two years looks like
:; good thing for all concerned. Al
was cut off in his coming days by
the crafty Jack O'Brien who, when at
his best. could only defeat Kaufman
by closing both the noyices eyes after
seventeen rounds of vicious fighting.
Kaufman has been coming steadily
ever since and after training Jack
johnson for his fight With JeffrieS
was labelled by the negro the leader
of the white hopes" Fifty thousand
dollars is the sum given Kaufman and
all the big fighters expenses are to
be betrayed by Gerard. The manager
of several burlesque companies says
he can find enough for Kaufman to do
and that the Californian and johnson
will be matched within years time |
he IaI E,rl,y
weight champion pugilist of the world |
was not born on a farm or in one Of |
the old familiar log cabins as so many |
sporting writer's have stated. SO far
Ads actual birthplace has never been
given, mainly because scribblers who
have dabbled with certain points of
Ads life have never taken the pains
tn look into the matter. The present
lightweight champion first saw the
light of day on February 8. 1883. His
birthplace was what is now the COM
modious Garrow home. located almost
directly in the heart of the residence
section of Cadillac. Wolgast's parents
rented the home in which Ad came
into the world because they Gid not
have enough money with which to Sc
cure a lease upon the farm they took
up the following spring. Wnen Al was
yet sucking away at the bottle. That
farm is now their home, for the cham
picn purchased it with the money re-
ceived from one of his earliest notable
fights. When Wolgast was in the
sixth grade he failed to see where GO
ing to school would be of any advant-
age 20 MIN. Therefore he left school.
lie has never set foot upon the school
grounds since leaving them for good.
many years ago After the school
days Wolgast's real life commenced in
earnest. He started the life which led
up to his present position in the pugi-
Iistic world. 1t had many ups and
downs and the champion does not like