The Alaska citizen., 1911-12-25

wires tingled with the news that
Wolgast and Wells had been brought
TO the signing point. Now 1t is Wells
and Mcfarland again. and in all
probability the program is subject
10 further change.
Manager Tom Jones who arranges
ring dates of Champion Wolgast
is beginning to thing that the East
ern fight handlers are a cheap lot
He says there is nothin gexorbitant
about the terms named by Wolgast
When Caruso comes to town he
names his own price and Wolgast
draws bigger crowds than Caruso,
argues Jones why then shouldn't
Wolgast tell what he wants."
This recalls an incident in the
clever Australian boxer He figured
clever Austrian boxer He figured
in bout in Portland Ore. once
when Kubelik. the violinist, was ap.
pearing in the town The Critic
bout drew but fairly and friend
remarked the next day: "Kubelik
had the crowd last night"
ITO think, murmured Critic.
why. stopped him once in four
rounds
Wolgast and others in his line are
evidently in that condition known
as money mad. 1t stands to reason
that the New York promoters would
| rather arrange contest with the
champion as one of the principals
| than one without. The fact that they
deem it expedent to turn away
from Wolgast is the best evidence
that they cannot see any profit in
handling him on his own terms,
and it begins to look as though a
time is coming when the middleman
| in pugilism will get scant picking.
| Possibly the promoters will be driv-
en- from the field and fighters will
apply for permits and run their
own shows.
Joe Jeanette is another who is
accused Of spelling good match
by asking too much money. Joe was
to have boxed Sam Langford before
! Tom McCarey's Vernon club on No
vember II, but he kept raising the
price until McCarey refused to be
bled any further.
Anyhow. such is the Los Angeles
version of the cancellation. but it
is just possible that there are a
couple of coons in the brush pile
this time. Both Langford and Jean
cite can find better market for
their wares in New York. and they
We're probably under the belief that
Governor Dix was going to squelch
the game of the glove in Gotham
when they promised to box for Nc
| Carey. Now that the scare in New
York is dying away the chances are
Langford himself isn't breaking his
neck to come West
Billy Papke is another who be-
lieves in getting all the benefits of
rising market Papke was offered
match with Eddie McGoorty in
New Orleans and he wired back that
he wanted A. per cent of the gross
receipts.
| IiSn1tph in n G
have been dropped for the pres
ent"
While Hughie Michigan, the Aus
/ tralian lightweight champion. has
little difficulty. as a rule, in dis
posing of his pugilstic classmates
hard put to it when he faced
American Frank Picato at the Rush
cutters bay stadium, Sydney
Picato. who had been sick, failed
to train down to the lightweight
notch and Michigan agreed to box
him at catchweghts.
The match went the full twenty
rounds called for by the articles
and one account said Some four
thousand persons watched the fight
and they saw better exhibition of
boxing than has been given for
some time Hughie Michigan has not
had his skill tested so we'll for
many a day. Even Johnny Summers,
with whom Michigan fought that
desperate battle last September, did
not try the Australian champions
would probably say that there was
very little difference between the
two boxers at the close of the nine
teenth round, but nearly the whole
Of the twentieth went to the Aus,
tralian and he received the YER
dict"
Picato. who is best known around
Los Angeles. went to Australia last
March. The affair with Michigan
was his second contest in Australia,
his first resulting in victory over
Arthur Douglas. South African
boxer.
Sam McVev, VINO recently won
from Jack Lester in Australia, as
tonished the natives while training