El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-16
WOlgast, Race Man,
The Saints Forbid
Story Current That Lightweight
Champ Is to Drive at Santa Mon
lea; One Drive He Made.
BY LEWIS ARMS.

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HAT Michigan German friend
Of mine, one Adolphus r
Wolgast, yelept Addie for
white paper savings sake. pos
SCISSOR Of many diamonds and in
cidentally the worlds finest light
weight title, losses his hat into the
ring and declares that he is going
to drive q racing car in the next
Santa Monica road race
The saints forbid If not viii
the governor call out the militia
or viii somebody or something
kindly intervene
/ happened to be victimized IN
to taking the first ride automo-
blesoue with Adalph that he ev-
er drove. A kind fate still or
dams that I retain my being on
this festive old sphere but II was
only that benign quality and no
fault of our premier 13S pound
jabber that both Of US are stiu
Had diamonds; Wanted auto
Ii was after AID had pulled the
EmeryVille on one Bat Nelson
Like all professional athletes his
first official act was TO deDlete
a jcWelry store. he had acquired
a chunk of ice for his necktle that
took ice tOngs TO put in fastidI-
Gus place OF a morning He could
hardly eat, his hands. were SO
weighted down And then on Top
of the diamonds, young Adolphus
developed an itching, which reaeh-
ed clear to his astral body, TO De-
come the pOssessor Of an auto
So at Grand Rapids. Mich. We
went a sight seeing to see what
we could see. We landed IN
popular priced car shop whose
manager frightened at the cnanSe
OF proving that his was tne ohly
original car without flaw, prov
ing it cOnclusively enough 70 SCI
his fraction of that EmeryFllle DoA
office returns
He called out the demonstrating
car. the demonstrated ana plnns
US all into it, sent us out 10 inter
view the landscape
The Action Was Immediate
Having always been compon-
eut part OF the center OF acllon
Woleast could not long endure the
Daesfditv of a mere ride and after
asserting that he knew a Inlng OF
two or three about macnlnery-
Ad must have filed or sharpeneu
pair OF scissors on an emery wneeL
once-he persuaded the chauLLeuI
to let him drive
Action Immediately started and
IL became warmer tnan pftSl
Dental primary The action began
ferkv kind which transplaces your
necktie from the orthodox place
TO up about your ears The car
whistled and groaned ana o.
CAST working VaIiantly ana 10
ouaciOusly with the levers anu
brakes was about 20 give 1t up
But finally he got US going
Our trail was as zig zaggy as a
professional Wrestlers- A peace
able laundry wagon came up the
percut He missed II by Irac-
ton Of an inch and the horse
sidestepped onto the sidewalk me
laundryman hoped out ana neapsu
innuendos on our heads as ne PICK
ed up his fallen bundles oul We
ala not hear him for just then
WolgaFt took a left lab at a par
ricade demarking some new
phsltum improvement ne W.
more successful this time ne
caught q two by four plank on ms
Ieff fender and knocked IL clear
onto a ringsider's front porch
saucy ssIt7 Boys Jabbered-
The boys from sunny 1t jan
on in a frenzy to score knockout
we almost got ii. nice and am
bfRuOus that for got II may De
used both ways, we ana lnez-
A brother mOtorist. hardly
brother. Just about a third COUSIN
TO our kind Of motoring was com
me down the street. He was deeply
imbued with the ethics OF ROAD
courtesy. He would no more nave
Thought of taking the wrong slde
Of the road than you would OF using
YOUR neighbor's clothes line
We still were pursuing course
from curb to curb like Jingled
gentleman at a m seeking the
haven Of a friendly lamp post our
brother ahead evidently alarmed
pulled up at the extreme side OF the
curb and stopped 70 give US tull
passage way. But II IS douDtIul II
Wolgast could have hit state
boundary line at that time BE was
mite excited by his two false
punches which preceded and he
was only trying now to stay the
His Last Body Blow.
To make Ii snappy he took full
right swing at Brother Ethics on
the curb and brought blood from
the tool box and the rear lamp.
yelling like an indian then Broth
er Ethics got into the game
The demonstrated who had also
had about as much as he wanted TO
stand for a morning, having fam
flv himself. then sat into the game
and took the wheel, and when we
went over the fourth hill we looked
back and saw our pursuer going
down the third.
But we had to circumscribe the
town and come in the other way
for they had officers watching
every road entering from the south.
A sporting editor and a dramatic
critic very often closes one eye and
Winks his other and lets a press
agent slip through a yarn ali to the
sandpaper. But then II would be a.
shame TO put the Eibosh on the
gentlemanly press agent who, may
hap, was a newspapr man himself
once and IS earning his daily eats
now on the amount OF space that he
can Jimmy out OF his exbrethren.
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