The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-11
WoIgast's Iron
 Jaw Won Victory
Champion Took Moran E Punches and Then Came
 Back for More

Cleveland, July 11-In view to tn
 vast amount of punishment assimilat t
 ed by Champion Ad Wolgast in hi
 fight with owen Moran on July 4
 men who had their faith pinned on tn
 Irish-Englishman were not so griev
 ously at fault in their judgment af
 ter all. According to conservative re
 ports from the ringside, Moran land
 ed many right-handers on Wolgast'.
 jaw, many of which were more force
 full than the one that knocked out
 Battling Nelson. But Wolgast prov
 ed to be one of the most wonderful
 little ''stonewalls" known to the ring
 since the days of Kid Lavigne His
 jaw seemed to be utterly impervfous
 to knockout blow for Moran is
 surely possessed of a sleep p-producing
 drive in his right. as has been proven
 on more than one occasion. But the
 hardest smashes he landed on Vol
 gast's jaw merely stayed his rushes for an instant; and this happened only
 two or three times during the bat
 tie. The champion took the other
 blows. merely slipping his head, and
 boring in with all the ferocity of a
 famished tiger and hammering away with both hands as he tore
 Years ago, old fight fans will recall
 the two desperately contested battles Lavigne put up with Joe Walcott, the terrible punishment the Saginaw boy stood, and how he assimilated it, re- taining his strength and punch and eventually defeating the black giant killer. Wolgast took Moran's blows in the same manner and when he found that Owen was beginning to tire he primed himself for a supreme effort as he sat In his corner after the twelfth round. At the tap of the gong for the thirteenth, wolgast bounded out of his corner like the wildcat he is called, and with a rush sent the Briusher, to the ropes before him. Two hard right-handers to the pit of the stomach and Owen dou- bled up in great agony, and as he staggered forward a blow on the jaw with left hook finished him.
 Wolgast showed up the manner in which he took Morans blows and smiled at them, that he is a boy pos sessed of a marvellous ability to stand punishment without showing any iMS effects from it. He now looks to be almost unbeatable in an unlimited round fight for how are they going to beat him if he can take blows cal ] fighter and merely smile at them Moran, scientific hitter, that he is, l could not feaze him, let alone knock | him out.
 Moran did what we expected in l that he outpointed Wolgast in a ma- JOhtlg VI Nile EOuHuS. Dub WOfSdSI ulu not appear to care how many blows owen was landing; he had made up his mind to make one grand spurt | when he found Moran beginning to show signs of tiring. and when he did this he found the Briton unpre- pared for such desperate rally and succeeded in getting in those awful blows to the midriff before Owen could begin to stop them.
 If you fight fans, whose eyes may scan this comment, have no idea what 2 solar plexus blow is like, just ask some friend to give you a slight poke with two fingers to the pit of the stomach and see how it feels. If you get it suddenly and unexpectedly, it znocks the wind out of you, and -enders you temporarily helpless. And hard blow in that spot would send -ou down for the count. Yes, it would keep an ordinary man, not rained for the fighting game out of commission for several hours. Fight wing to the manner in which they rain Usually a fighters stomach is 1 by ridges of muscles and vhen he expects a blow in the mid ection he braces himself and escapes l rith little damage. However, when he other fellow succeeds in fooine l i'm to the extent that he expects the | low elsewhere, the blow to the solar lexus usually causes a knockout Tn l tuesdays fight Wolgast evidently l lade Moran believe that he was t bout to attack the head, and when l wen sought to protect it he sent in ( is hard smashes to the solar plexus. I There are thousands of fans in this (