The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-23
CORBETT'S WEEKLY
 BOXING REVIEW
PICKS AD WOLGAST TO
 BEAT RlTCHIE ON THANKSGIVING

ute before entering the ring. How ever, if Ad wins by a Knockout it will surprise me as Ritchie's splendid bat ties make the task look a difficult one for even an indomitabIe, little scrap per like Wolgas.
 Out Los Angeles way Tom McCarey presents Joe Mandot and Joe Rivers for a Thanksgiving card. while here in Gotham the former '1ron man, '' Battling Nelson, hopes to convince doubting Thonases that he is still as spry as he was before the war. Which will take considerable ssconvineing'' by the way. Bat is to box a local celebrity, Leach Cross, who applied the chloroform punch to .One Round" Hogan in three rounds last week. Cross is a bear at times, especially when confident he has it .son" a fef- low. On such an occasion he fights like 9 champion, but when up against classy lad reneges on the job. Op- posed to Jack Britton Cross looked the biggest kind of dub; when boxing Hogan he was brave as a lion. The Battler will find Cross one of the dir- tiest boxers in the business, but if memory serves me right Nelson him self could hand out the rough stuff pretty well in the old lays. He may find it necessary as matter of de- 40AS0 to ISSOft 10 al1 n1S xnS1aS,' stunts when boxing Cross.
 Eddie Morgan. who claims the English bantam-weight title Git seems all British boxers who visit us are champions), has grabbed a match with Johnny Kflbane. While no date has been announced it is likely Los Angeles will get the bout for a Christ mas attraction. On the surface it uTNlTld l1of Fxo o,xzszr much the better of the weights, but as the English bantam limit is 1I9 and the American featherweight fg- ure 122 pounds it will be seen that there will be little, if any difference in actual poundage- And Morgan Is rather heavy for even a British ban- tam. When he boxed Eddie O'Keefe the visitor weighed within a few ounces of his opponent.
 By the way Eddie Morgan Is not a false alarm like many foreigners who have visited us lately. In his first bout here he decisively defeated Frankie Burns. the Jersey bantam, and local critics. all of whom are great admirers CD of Kfibane. '.aI- lowed,' he did the job much better han our featherweight champion. AL so Morgan's showing in the O'Keefe contest was impressive. But box ing Kilbane 20 rounds is a different prop os1tion from waltzing through short bouts with boys of the Burns and O'Keefe variety, neither of whom has a punch.
 Tom O'Rourke denies that Tony Ross bested Al Palzer at Philadelphia last week. He says Ross was enti- tied to draw and no more. O'Rourke is not making excuses for his hope" and is not at all satisfied with AIS showing. He says the big fellow is way over weight as a result of five months vacation and that it will take considerable hard work and several battles to round him into good con dition. It is like beginning all over again with this fellow, according to Tom.
 At that O'Rourke takes a goodly share of the blame for the poor work of the other night on his own sl1oul- ders- He says Palzer was suffering from g very bad cold and that on top of the fat he was carrying was too much of handicap. He underesti- mated Ross and thought his man, even though in poor shape, could win. Which is an eror of judgment the shrewd O'Rourke is seldom guilty of. Before taking Al to California to box the winner of the F1ynn-M match Tom hopes to arrange several local bouts for his charge as part cf tAe preparatory system. Palzer thrives on work.
 JAMES J. CORBETT.